Re-Animator/YMMV
- Adaptation Displacement - Herbert West: Reanimator was written in 1921 and 1922. The movie has almost completely supplanted it in popular culture.
- Complete Monster: Even though Hill was a horrible person, the Warden in Beyond takes things one step further.
- Crazy Awesome - Dr. West
- Crosses the Line Twice - Okay, West killing Dr. Hill can be justified, he had it coming... But him decapitating him wholly and then re-animating the head and body separately for what amounts to shits and giggles? Seriously!
- Crowning Moment of Awesome - When West rams a bone saw straight through the heart of one of the reanimated, without hesitation or so much as a squick face.
- "Dan...I told you I had an idea...OVERDOSE!"
- Meg's father killing Dr. Hill's head whilst West deals with the body.
- Crowning Moment of Funny
- Those pesky severed heads! They always tip over.
- "Cat dead. Details later."
- From Beyond Reanimator
- Funny Background Event- At the end of Bride of Re-Animator, West is knocked into the crypt containing many of his rejected experiments. In their midst is a white kitten puppet peaking over a corner.
- High Octane Nightmare Fuel - While most of the violence is quite over-the-top, the appearance of the morgue zombies was painstakingly based on actual corpses of accident victims, and as such is disturbingly realistic and extremely scary.
- Squick - Plenty, but the scene where Dr. Hill brings a whole new meaning to the term "giving head" stands out in particular.
- Values Dissonance: HP Lovecraft was a racist [1]. Here's how he describes a black boxer in the Re-Animator short stories.
- ↑ In his younger days and earlier stories, very much so. Whether he was/n't or grew out of it is a matter of debate.