Reanimation movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant reanimation movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out suspense, suspenseful, scary, psychotronic, weird and serious films and TV shows about / with reanimation, supernatural, mad scientist, monster, death, corpse, zombie, murder, vengeance and violence plots mostly in Horror, Sci-Fi and Drama genres shot in USA, UK, Italy and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as reanimation: Re-Animator (1985), Code Black (2015), Second Chance (2016), Young Frankenstein (1974), Patchwork (2015), Universal Soldier (1992), Death Smiles on a Murderer (1973), Bride of Re-Animator (1990), Dead & Buried (1981), Asylum (1972).
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| Canavar Gibi (2018) | 3.3 | |
| The Nurse (2018) | 5.1 | |
| Instant Family (2018) | 7.3 | |
| Here After (2024) | 4.2 | |
| Dead Lover (2025) | 5.5 |
List of reanimation movies
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A dedicated student at a medical college and his girlfriend become involved in bizarre experiments centering around the re-animation of dead tissue when an odd new student arrives on campus.
Style:
splatter, lovecraft, bloody, black comedy, horror comedy ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, adult
Plot:
violence, mad scientist, zombie, insanity, reanimated corpse, female nudity, dark humor, overdose, gory, laboratory, hospital, evil scientist ...
Time:
80s, year 1985, 20th century
Place:
massachusetts, europe, austria, zurich switzerland
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story:
Inspired by the award-winning documentary, this medical drama is set in the busiest and most notorious ER in the nation where the extraordinary staff confront a challenged system in order to protect their ideals and the patients who need them the ...
Style:
medical drama, suspense, touching, emotional, captivating ...
Plot:
hospital, medical, doctor, emergency room, medical profession, reanimation, coping, physician, saving a life, nurse, team, nursing ...
Place:
los angeles
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story:
A disgraced, 75-year-old ex-sheriff, whose life ends at the hands of corrupt cops, is brought back to life and given a second chance by a pair of young tech scientists, as a 35-year-old with unpredictable near-superhuman abilities.
Style:
captivating, tense, exciting, futuristic, serious ...
Plot:
superhuman, genius, resurrection, second chance, father son relationship, scientist, reanimation, investigation, human experiment, supernatural, friendship, secret ...
Time:
future
Place:
usa
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A young neurosurgeon inherits the castle of his grandfather, the famous Dr. Victor von Frankenstein. In the castle he finds a funny hunchback, a pretty lab assistant and the elderly housekeeper. Young Frankenstein believes that the work of his ...
Style:
parody, spoof, funny, horror comedy, gothic ...
Audience:
teens, horror for children
Plot:
mad scientist, castle, frankenstein, monster, experiment, satire, frankenstein's monster, farce, laboratory, hunchback, sex scene, blindness ...
Time:
1930s, 1940s, 20th century, year 1974, near future ...
Place:
transylvania, arizona, europe, usa, seattle
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Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A delightfully dark, Frankenstein-themed horror comedy about a re-animated corpse, made from the stitched together body parts of three murdered young women, that decides to go on a bloody quest to find their killer and avenge their deaths!
Style:
scary, horror comedy, psychotronic, disturbing, bleak ...
Plot:
body horror, revenge, vanity, reanimation, abduction, woman in danger, female protagonist, rescue, experiment, supernatural, kidnapping, mutant ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
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Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, France, Netherlands
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
An American soldier who had been killed during the Vietnam War is revived 25 years later by the military as a semi-android, UniSols, a high-tech soldier of the future. After the failure of the initiative to erase all the soldier's memories, he ...
Style:
futuristic, exciting, cult classic, intense, rough ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night, teens
Plot:
martial arts, androids and robots, one man army, cyberpunk, vietnam war, soldier, rescue mission, amnesia, mind control, reporter, cyborgs, top secret ...
Time:
year 1969, 90s, 20th century, 60s, 80s ...
Place:
vietnam, louisiana, new orleans, nevada, arizona ...
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A man discovers an ancient Incan formula for raising the dead, and uses it for a series of revenge murders.
Style:
gothic horror, gothic, slasher, suspenseful, psychological ...
Plot:
reanimation, killer, bare chested male, murder, necrophilia, obsession, lesbian sex, anger, fear, death, rage, confusion ...
Time:
1900s, 20th century
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Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Herbert West once again revives the dead. This time, he brings Dan's ex-girlfriend's heart back inside a 'perfect' body. Dr. Hill returns as the evil nemesis who lost his head.
Style:
lovecraft, horror comedy, black comedy, independent film, splatter ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
mad scientist, zombie, laboratory, police detective, hospital, gay subtext, reanimation, gory, reanimated corpse, mind control, obsession, dog ...
Time:
90s, 80s
Place:
massachusetts, peru, south america, usa
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Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
After a series of gory murders commited by mobs of townspeople against visiting tourists, the corpses appear to be coming back to life and living normally as locals in the small town.
Style:
frightening, slasher, surprise ending, detective, grindhouse ...
Plot:
small town, murder, violence, zombie, mortician, supernatural, murder investigation, sheriff, mysterious death, reanimation, black magic, insanity ...
Time:
80s, year 1981
Place:
new england
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Genre: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A young psychiatrist applies for a job at a mental asylum, and must pass a test by interviewing four patients. He must figure out which of the patients, is in fact, the doctor that he would be replacing if hired.
Style:
anthology, atmospheric, scary, suspenseful, gothic ...
Plot:
insanity, mental illness, mad scientist, uxoricide, serial killer, supernatural, murder, occult, dismemberment, tailor, psychiatric hospital, multiple personality disorder ...
Time:
year 1972, 70s, 20th century
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A renegade doctor is shot dead and entombed with his fiendish experiments in the basement of an abandoned wing of a mental hospital. Twenty years later, a mysterious woman is admitted with amnesia, and her arrival is marked by an earthquake - which ...
Style:
slasher, medical horror, independent film, surprise ending, atmospheric ...
Plot:
psychopath, psychic, nightmare, mental institution, zombie, supernatural power, psychiatrist, repressed memory, zombie attack, insanity, holy water, trauma ...
Time:
80s
Place:
california
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Genre: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Dr. Frankensteins' daughter, who is in love with the aging lab assistant Marshall, continues with her fathers experiments and attempts to transplant Marshall's brain into a new body to prolong his life.
Style:
classic horror, psychotronic, grindhouse, gothic, gothic horror ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
mad scientist, monster, laboratory, frankenstein, killed during sex, sex scene, father daughter relationship, surgeon, reanimation, fire, anti heroine, lust ...
Time:
year 1971, 70s
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A young man arrives at his father's mansion in Louisiana to discover that a secretive cult is using winged creatures to raise the dead to do their bidding.
Style:
dark, independent film, scary, slasher, psychological ...
Plot:
reanimation, resurrection, ghost, erotica, bare breasts, female nudity, bare chested male, creature, monster, jungle, legends and myths, curses spells and rituals ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new orleans, louisiana, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Tabloid reporters are sent by their editor to investigate after the paper recieves a letter from a woman claiming an angel is living with her.
Style:
feel good, uplifting, humorous, romantic, entertaining ...
Audience:
date night, kids, family friendly, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
angel, road trip, happy ending, fish out of water, love, death, god, dog, reporter, on the road, dancing, small town ...
Place:
iowa, chicago, illinois, usa, texas
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
LAPD police officer, Roger Mortis is killed while arresting zombies who have been reanimated by the head of Dante Laboratories in order to carry out violent armed robberies.
Style:
spoof, cult classic, black comedy, scary, humorous ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
resurrection, reluctant partners, buddy cop, zombie, reanimation, undead, monster, vengeance, violence, gory, police investigation, supernatural ...
Time:
80s
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A single mother and a childless morgue technician are bound together by their relationship to a little girl they have reanimated from the dead.
Style:
captivating, suspenseful, tense, thrilling, psychological horror ...
Plot:
pathologist, reanimation, frankenstein, dead child, medicine, dead girl, physician, corpse, transplant, conspiracy, cadaver, hospital ...
Place:
bronx new york city
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A strange man named Karl Rhamarevich dies shortly after discovering a way to become even more powerful in death through telekinesis. On the night of his burial in a crypt, Julie is to spend the night there as part of an initiation rite, supervised ...
Style:
scary, suspenseful, slasher, sexy, suspense ...
Audience:
teens, horror for children
Plot:
mausoleum, initiation, living dead, telekinesis, ghost, supernatural, supernatural power, breaking and entering, mind control, reanimation, survival, supernatural ability ...
Time:
80s, year 1982
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 185 min.
Story:
This much-requested, made-for-TV adaptation of Mary Shelley's novel stars Michael Sarrazin as the creature given life by Victor Frankenstein (Leonard Whiting), who witnesses his creation turn uncontrollable after he's duped by his ...
Style:
gothic horror, gothic, scary, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Plot:
frankenstein, blind man, monster, reanimation, scientist, doctor, murder, supernatural, deadly creature, mad scientist, obsession, danger ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era
Place:
england, europe, london
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 149 min.
Story:
Dr. Victor Frankenstein, a brilliant but egotistical scientist, brings a creature to life in a monstrous experiment that ultimately leads to the undoing of both the creator and his tragic creation.
Style:
gothic, dark fantasy, dark, atmospheric, grim ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
mad scientist, frankenstein's monster, storytelling, monster, fire, love, flashback, blind man, butterfly, captain, ship, north pole ...
Time:
19th century, 1850s, victorian era, 1810s
Place:
edinburgh scotland, vienna, london
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Genre: Horror
Country: Spain
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Paul Naschy plays a hunchback with below average intelligence who works at the morgue. He is in love with a sickly girl who happens to be the only person who is kind to him. Each day he brings her flowers until the day she dies.
Style:
gothic, suspense, lovecraft, serious, scary ...
Plot:
necrophilia, murder, mad scientist, terror, hunchback, fistfight, morgue, rat, ghost, erotica, virus, underground ...
Time:
70s
Place:
spain
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Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Victor Frankenstein, descendant of the infamous scientist, Baron Von Frankenstein, follows in his experimental footsteps. Initially his success involves the resuscitation of a tortoise and progressing onto more ambitious projects, including creating ...
Style:
gothic horror, medical horror, suspenseful, gothic, bleak ...
Plot:
frankenstein, mad scientist, frankenstein's monster, supernatural, laboratory, castle, doctor frankenstein, grave robbing, experiment gone awry, danger, deadly creature, escapades ...
Time:
60s
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Genre: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Once hounded from his castle by outraged villagers for creating a monstrous living being, Baron Frankenstein returns to Karlstaad. High in the mountains they stumble on the body of the creature, perfectly preserved in the ice. He is brought back to ...
Style:
medical horror, gothic horror, gothic, classic horror, psychotronic ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
frankenstein, monster, mad scientist, frankenstein's monster, laboratory, creature, castle, reanimation, experiment, supernatural, murder, experiment gone awry ...
Time:
60s
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A doctor and a mortician have teamed up to do re-animation experiments on corpses using gangster money loaned for "remodeling." When they can't pay it back, the Mafia guy sends his nephews to work at the funeral home to keep a watch ...
Style:
horror comedy, independent film, offbeat, cult horror, retro ...
Plot:
zombie, mortician, mafia, reanimation, funeral home, grave robbing, resurrection, mayhem, irreverent, dark humor, gangster, undead ...
Place:
beverly hills, california, los angeles
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Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Israel
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Haim-Aaron is a bright, ultra-orthodox religious scholar living in Jerusalem. His talents and devotion are envied by all. One evening, following a self-imposed fast, Haim-Aaron collapses and loses consciousness. The paramedics announce his death, ...
Style:
suspense, serious, bleak, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot:
jewish family, father son relationship, nightmare, fasting, resurrection, loss of faith, religion, near death experience, reanimation, backfire, parent child relationship, dream ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
jerusalem, israel, palestine
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
After 29-year-old Adaline recovers from a nearly lethal accident, she inexplicably stops growing older. As the years stretch on and on, Adaline keeps her secret to herself until she meets a man who changes her life.
Style:
romantic, touching, emotional, dramatic, romantic drama ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens
Plot:
love, immortality, love story, immortal, loneliness, supernatural, life & death, love and romance, destiny, impossible love, beautiful scenery, supernatural romance ...
Time:
future, edwardian era, 2010s, year 2015, 20th century ...
Place:
san francisco, peru, california, oregon, arizona ...
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
'Tales of Fear' is a six part anthology film styled after EC horror comics of the 1950s. The film includes a variety of tales: Teenagers in a graveyard at night realize it's not wise to disturb the dead. A nosey woman thinks her ...
Style:
bleak, scary, psychotronic, suspense, anthology
Plot:
werewolf, reanimation, mad scientist, psycho, supernatural power, monster, supernatural, loss, supernatural ability, characters in danger, peril, obsessive quest ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Family, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
When a car hits young Victor's pet dog Sparky, Victor decides to bring him back to life the only way he knows how. But when the bolt-necked "monster" wreaks havoc and terror in the hearts of Victor's neighbors, he has to convince ...
Style:
gothic, scary, black and white, claymation, fairy tale ...
Audience:
kids, family friendly, family outing, pre-teens, horror for children
Plot:
stop motion, dog, frankenstein, supernatural, mad scientist, experiment, halloween, loss of loved one, afterlife, reincarnation, cemetery, animal ...
Time:
year 2012, year 2000, 2010s, 1930s
Place:
usa, netherlands, boston
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A genetic experiment goes wrong as it creates a hideous monster from dead body parts:a re-animated corpse thirsty for blood.
Style:
dark, suspenseful, tense, grim, independent film ...
Plot:
creature feature, genetic experiment, reanimated corpse, monster, reanimation, body horror, macabre, graphic violence, science gone wrong, fear, occult, supernatural ...
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Mexico
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
Mad scientist brings his dead mad scientist grandfather back to life and makes a Frankenstein-type monster out of him.
Style:
classic horror, horror comedy, black and white, psychological horror, gothic ...
Plot:
laboratory, mad scientist, immortality, resurrection, monster, frankenstein, reanimation, macabre, madness, science gone wrong, grandfather grandson relationship, dark humor ...
Time:
year 1962
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Italy
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
After the loss of his daughter Eleanor, a famous scientist, Dr. Herbert West, experimenting with a special serum invented by him, desperately tries to bring her back to life.
Style:
medical horror, lovecraft, scary, tense, bleak ...
Plot:
daughter, father and daughter, body horror, reanimation, violence, serum, dead child, deadly creature, murder, supernatural, reincarnation, creature feature ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy
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