Director : Stuart Gordon (The Dentist, Honey, I Shrunk The Kids) Writers : H.P. Lovecraft - story (The Tomb, LoveCracked) Dennis Paoli - screenplay (Master of Horror) Cast : Jeffrey Combs ( CSI, Batman, Startrek) Bruce Abbott (Mac Gyver, The Net) Genre : Comedy / Horror / Sci-Fi Runtime : 86 min (unrated version) / USA:95 min (R-rated version) Country : USA Language : English/ German

Awards:
Winner, Best Film & Best Special Effects, Fantafestival, 1986
Nominated, Saturn Award, Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA, 1986
Winner, Caixa de Catalunya, Sitges Catalonian International Film Festival, 1985

Synopsis :
Herbert West adalah seorang scientist dari Swiss yang menemukan cairan yang mampu membawa sesuatu yang sudah mati menjadi hidup kembali. Setelah kematiah misterius profesornya di Swiss, West pindah ke Universitays Miskatonic untuk melanjutkan risetnya mengenai  cairan misterius tadi. Disini, West melibatkan teman kuliahnya Dan Cain dan tunangannya Megan Halsey. Mereka bereksperimen untuk menghidupkan kembali kucing yang mati, kemudian area eksperimen mereka menjadi semakin meluas.

In this H.P. Lovecraft tale, Herbert West is a Swiss scientist who has discovered a fluid which brings living tissue back to life. After the suspicious death of his professor in Switzerland, West moves to Miskatonic University to continue his research. He involves fellow student Dan Cain and his fiancée Megan Halsey in his research by experimenting on their dead cat. Dan, fascinated by West's research, agrees to smuggle him into the hospital morgue with predictable results.