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Re-Animator (movies)

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Title: Re-Animator (movies)
Medium: English live-action movies
Approx length: Two feature-length movies
Where to find it: Kanopy, Shudder, or you can rent it from the usual places
What is it, in summary? 80s/90s horror comedy franchise loosely adapted from a Lovecraft story, about a mad scientist med student and his roommate whom he drags along in a quest to re-animate the dead.
What do you love about it? Just as a movie, Re-Animator is very tightly written and very funny, with a great score and great physical special effects for its bloody gore. The cast is great, especially Jeffrey Combs as mad scientist Herbert West. (Combs later went on to play a bunch of different alien characters on Star Trek: DS9.) It's also VERY shippy. Herbert is a weird little amoral gremlin who dislikes basically everyone on Earth except, apparently, his roommate and fellow med student Daniel Cain. Meanwhile Dan seems like the sensible one at first, but no, it's just that unlike Herbert he has a modicum of emotional intelligence, which does nothing to prevent him from going along with all Herbert's REALLY BAD IDEAS.

The second movie, Bride of Re-Animator, isn't as good of a movie, but in some ways it's even shippier, to the point of "there is no heterosexual explanation for this" on Herbert's end. A third movie was released almost a decade later, but it's pretty bad and doesn't have Daniel in it, so I don't really recommend it.

What sort of things are you likely to request for it? I ship Herbert/Dan a LOT. I really want fic of Herbert being his weird gremlin self while continuing his important body desecration scientific research. Feelings and gore, basically!
Are there sections of canon (rather than the whole canon) that can be consumed by themselves to fulfill your requests? I would be happy with fic for just the first movie or for the first first two movies.
Content warnings: Lots of blood, gore, and body horror, as well as institutionalization and a nonconsensual lobotomy. The first movie has a very uncomfortable gross-out scene of attempted sexual assault of a female character.