Plot Summary

Herbert West (Jeffrey Combs) is a brilliant medical student who has perfected a green-glowing serum for regenerating life into dead things -- or even parts of dead things. But a corrupt superior, Dr. Carl Hill (David Gale), assumes control of West's experiments and winds up, by ghastly necessity, using the stuff on his own severed head and body. West and in-over-his-head co-worker Dan Cain (Bruce Abbott) struggle to control the now out-of-control effects of the serum, but the bone-saws and zombies complicate their plans.

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Cast herbert west Jeffery Combs dan cain Bruce Abbott megan halsey Barbara Crampton dr. carl hill David Gale dean alan halsey Robert Sampson mace (miskatonic security guard) Gerry Black dr. harrod Carolyn Purdy-Gordon melvin the re-animated Peter Kent nurse Barbara Pieters swiss professor Ian Patrick Williams swiss doctor Bunny Summers dr. gruber Al Berry swiss policeman #1 Derek Pendleton swiss policeman #2 Gene Scherer psycho ward guard #1 James Ellis psycho ward guard #2 James Earl Cathay E-R patient corpse Annyce Holzman slit wrist girl corpse Velvet Debois failed operation corpse Lawrence Lowe motorcycle acciedent corpse Robert Holcomb facial bullet wound corpse Mike Filloon one-armed corpse Greg Reid tall skinny guy corpse Jack Draheim bald O-R corpse Pitzele

Crew director Suart Gordon story screenplay screenplay screenplay H.P. Lovecraft Dennis Paoli William Norris Stuart Gordon executive producer executive producer associate producer associate producer producer Michael Avery Bruce William Curtis Bob Greenburg Charles Donald Storey Brian Yuzna original music Richard Band cinematography Mac Ahlberg editing Lee Percy casting Anthony Barnao art direction Robert A. Burns costume design Robin Burton Robin Lewis-West special makeup effects artist special makeup effects special makeup effects special makeup effects artist special makeup effects artist (uncredited) Everett Burrell Anthony doublin John Naulin Gerald Quist John Carl Buechler executive in charge of production Dennis Murphy production manager Michael Muscal assistant director Tim Minear sound re-recording mixer Gordon L. Day Dean Okrand music editor Tom Villano special effects: EFX lead special effects Rechard N. McGuire Bret Culpepper stunt coordinator stunt double: dean halsey/dr. hill stunts Dan Bradley Ray Lykins Scott Alan Cook Mike Filloon Ray Lykins George P. Wilbur