Re-Animator

Mostly unenjoyable, gore-fest, cult horror film in which a young doctor cons a friend from med school into helping him experiment with a serum that re-animates the dead. Soon we've got zombies that would probably be better off dead in the long run, so why bother to bring them back. The special effects are impressive, including a headless scientist whose body carries around his head, but the film lacks the wit, suspense, and enjoyablility of similar 80's horror films like, The Evil Dead or Return of the Living Dead. The climax, however, in which about a dozen zombies awake and attack the living in a morgue, is something like spectacular, but it doesn't make up for the rest of the film.