Re-Animator
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| Fandom | |
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| Name: | Re-Animator |
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| Creator: | Stuart Gordon and Brian Yuzna (directors), based on a short story by H. P. Lovecraft |
| Date(s): | 1985, 1990, 2003 |
| Medium: | films |
| Country of Origin: | United States |
| External Links: | Re-Animator (film series) at Wikipedia |
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Re-Animator is a 1985 horror film based on the 1922 short story Herbert West–Reanimator by H. P. Lovecraft. It is followed by two sequels, Bride of Re-Animator (1990) and Beyond Re-Animator (2003).
Canon
Fandom
The fandom's primary pairing is Herbert West/Daniel Cain.
There was Re-Animator fanfiction and fanart on the Jeffrey Combs fansite The CataCombs starting from 1999.[1]
DrWorm was an advocate of the Herbert/Dan ship in the early to mid-2000s. He noted that "there were only maybe one or two things still online having to do with Re-Animator fanfic" circa early 2004[2] and wrote in his 2004 ship manifesto: "I get the feeling that, once upon a time, there used to be more Re-Animator slash on the 'net. Sadly, it seems to have gone the way of the 404 error."[3]
FanFiction.net had a Re-Animator category with two stories as of October 2004.[4] There were previously Re-Animator fics in the "Miscellaneous Movies" category.[5] There were 57 fics as of 2009 and 130 as of 2024.[6]
The first Re-Animator stories posted on Archive of Our Own were written for Yuletide 2010.[7] There were over 80 works for the fandom in 2015; this grew to over 160 in 2017, over 600 in 2022, and over 1300 in 2024.[8]
Example Fanworks
Fanfiction
Meta
- Together, We Are Providence by drworm: "An exploration of the homoeroticism in the Re-Animator films and associated media, and the place the films take in the mad scientist canon that has long been defined by Frankenstein." Link posted to ship_manifesto as a Herbert West/Daniel Cain manifesto.[9] (Dec 2004)
Links & Resources
References
- ^ The CataCombs - What's New, Archived version (accessed 2 September 2024). The Puzzlebox by Judith Riley O'Brien, a Hellraiser/Re-Animator fic, was posted on 19 August 1999.
- ^ Comment, Archived version by drworm on a fandomsecrets post on LiveJournal, 27 April 2008. Referencing "four years ago".
- ^ DrWorm. Re-Animator Essay. Archived 30 December 2007 by the Wayback Machine.
- ^ FanFiction.Net : Movies, archived 13 October 2004 by the Wayback Machine.
- ^ For example, "Exquisite Dead Guys" by Nightspore, posted 30 January 2004: Profile : Nightspore on FanFiction.Net, archived 9 November 2004 by the Wayback Machine.
- ^ FanFiction.net. Movies, accessed 2 September 2024 and archived 7 October 2009.
- ^ As of 2 September 2024, the oldest works in Re-Animator (Movies - Combs) sorted by Date Posted are La Petit Mort by DrWorm (21 Dec 2010) and Not Quite Hope by random_chick (22 Dec 2010). There was no canonical tag for Re-Animator as of 25 October 2010.
- ^ Archive of Our Own canonical tags: Re-Animator (1985) (archived 21 August 2015), Re-Animator (Movies) (archived 20 December 2017), and Re-Animator (Movies - Combs) (archived 1 February 2022). 1,326 Works in Re-Animator (Movies - Combs) as of 2 September 2024.
- ^ ship_manifesto post, 22 December 2004. Now links to the Dreamwidth post, but originally linked to the essay at drworm.net. Fic recs and "An Unofficial Re-Animator Soundtrack" were not carried over to the Dreamwidth repost.