One night while West was working in the basement of the house, Dan comes down to investigate the strange noises and is shocked to see his dead cat Rufus jumping around attempting to attack the both of them. West would later cause trouble inside of Dan's residence such as being responsible for the murder of Dan's cat, Rufus and also starts acting very strange and secretive being very strict about his privacy which rises the suspicion of Dan's girlfriend, Megan Halsey (Who is also the daughter of the Dean in Miskatonic). This led to the events of Re-Animator.ĭuring his years in Miskatonic he met Dan Cain another Medical student and offered to pay rent for shelter inside of Cain's home. Hans Gruber after he tried to use his corpse for one of his experiments and eventually moved to the Miskatonic University Medical School. He was later kicked out after the alleged murder of Dr. While much is not known about West's early life, he did en-roll himself into the University of Zurich in Switzerland when he was a young adult and did independent research for 5 years which is possibly when he invented the 'Re-agent' used to bring dead corpses back to life. Herbert West is the typical 'Mad Scientist' archetype and is obsessed with his experiments of bringing the dead back to life and 'defeating death' with his new found solution called the 're-agent' which is a formula used to re-animate dead corpses when injected into the host found in all adaptations of Re-Animator. Herbert West is the main character in the 1985 Stuart Gordon film Re-Animator and it's original source ' Herbert West - Reanimator' written by H.P Lovecraft in 1922. Jeffrey Combs Source Images of Herbert West

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