Oct. 18, 2025

This Day in Halloween: "Re-Animator" opens across the U.S. in 1985. /Illustration by Allison Jimenez

Re-Animator opens across the U.S. in 1985. The low-budget horror comedy based on the H.P. Lovecraft story about a med student who creates a substance that reanimates corpses is a small hit on its release, is followed by two sequels and now considered a cult favorite. 

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