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Jeffrey Combs
- Directed by Stuart Gordon and produced by Brian Yuzna, the film stars Jeffrey Combs as Herbert West, a medical student who has invented a reagent which can re-animate deceased bodies.
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For the past 13 years, Dr. Herbert West has been serving a prison sentence due to a murder at the hands of one of his zombies. With what scant supplies he has on hand in the prison medical center, Dr. West has been capable of performing only extremely basic experiments on rats.
Herbert West: The inventor of a special solution, or "reagent", that can resurrect the dead. He is portrayed as a brilliant, narcissistic, and intensely driven young man of an amoral nature, traits carried over into the 1985 film. His arrogance and lack of respect for life (and death) prove to be his undoing.
- Howard Phillips Lovecraft
- 1931
Left to rot in prison for the past thirteen years after the blood-drenched events in Re-Animator (1985) and Bride of Re-Animator (1990), the misunderstood virtuoso of mayhem, Dr Herbert West, finds an unexpected ally in the person of the young medical doctor, Howard Phillips.
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- Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
- Brian Yuzna
- 2003-07-25
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- Personality
- Biography
Herbert West is the main protagonist of the Re-Animator series of films and comics, based on the short story Herbert West-Reanimator by the late H.P. Lovecraft.
In the films based on the story, he is portrayed by Jeffrey Combs, who played a number of roles in Star Trek-related media, including Weyoun and Brunt on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Shran on Star Trek: Enterprise. He also portrayed Dr. Vannacutt in the 1999 film House on Haunted Hill, Brainiac in Injustice 2, the Scarecrow in The New Batman Adventures and Batman: The Animated Series, and Shepard Lambrick in Would You Rather.
Herbert West is a mad scientist who created a strange serum that allowed the dead to be brought back to life, at the cost of their humanity - often becoming violent zombies intent on murder and mayhem. Despite this, Herbert continually shows an obsession with overcoming the limits of life and death, thus he continued to raise the dead despite the horrible consequences.
Like many mad scientists, Herbert has also been tasked with defeating his own experiments on a few occasions, though his madness always seems to ensure he will make another batch of monsters in the future.
Book
Herbert deviates slightly from Lovecraft's original design in having brunette hair rather than blonde, the films also have Herbert West living in the modern age, other than these minor changes the character remains virtually the same in both the book and the movies-being a mad scientist whose actions in raising the dead trouble his colleague (the main character) and has disastrous consequences. Another difference is that Herbert is devoured by the zombies he resurrected from an army serving in World War ll by the end of the book.
Dr. Herbert West is the main character in H. P. Lovecraft’s short story "Herbert West--Reanimator" as well as the Re-Animator series of films and comics. Herbert West is 'a small, slender, spectacled youth with delicate features, yellow hair, pale blue eyes, and a soft voice'.
2003. 1 hr 36 mins. Horror, Comedy, Suspense, Science Fiction. R. Watchlist. Where to Watch. Jeffrey Combs' resurrection-obsessed Herbert West returns for a third installment of the camp horror...
Re-Animator is an American film series consisting of three horror films directed by Stuart Gordon and Brian Yuzna. Loosely based on the 1922 serialized short story "Herbert West–Reanimator" by H. P. Lovecraft, the films follow the exploits of Herbert West, the inventor of a serum that can re-animate deceased bodies.
