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Where was Re-Animator filmed?

1985 film, directed by Stuart Gordon.

  • Los Angeles

The story is set in Zurich, about 5,917 miles (9,523 km) from where it was filmed.

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Where it’s set vs. where it was filmed

Set in
Zurich
Filmed in
Los Angeles
Distance
About 5,917 miles (9,523 km) between Zurich and the nearest filming location.
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About Re-Animator

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Released
1985
Director
Stuart Gordon
Cast
Jeffrey CombsBruce AbbottBarbara CramptonDavid GaleIan Patrick WilliamsRobert SampsonPeter Kent
Genre
Science FictionComedy HorrorZombieSplatterBody Horror
Based on
Herbert West—Reanimator
Awards
Sitges Film Festival Best Feature-Length Film award

At the University of Zurich Institute of Medicine in Switzerland, Herbert West brings his dead professor, Dr.

West demonstrates his reanimating reagent to Dan by reanimating Dan's dead cat Rufus.

Barred from the school, West and Dan sneak into the morgue to test the reagent on a human subject in an attempt to prove that it works, and thereby salvage their medical careers.

Famous lines from Re-Animator

Could you name the film from one of these? Famous lines turn up in the daily game.

  • It was dead!Dan
  • You killed him!Swiss Woman Doctor
  • .. Aw, God, he's ripe!Dan
  • Birth is always painful.West
  • What were you researching?Cain

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