HERBERT WEST: RE-ANIMATOR is another film from low budget Italian director Ivan Zuccon, who has been shooting Lovecraftian films for two decades now. Sadly, this one pales in comparison to Stuart Gordon's excellent 1985 splatterfest, with which it has much in common. The Gordon film didn't have much to do with Lovecraft's original story, so I supposed that Zuccon would be going back to the text to do it properly. Not so. This is a weak re-tread of the '80s flick, complete with green-glowing goo, a Jeffrey Combs lookalike, and some rampaging zombies. It's cheap and uneventful, with too much of that modern, downbeat digital look that I'm no fan of.
Review of Herbert West: Re-Animator
