Re-Animator Stuff

i need them movie nighting to become canon

The scene in bride of re animator where herbert is holding megs heart

Herbert is still upstaged by Meg even when she's dead. He still just can't seem to make an impact on Dan without her. Right before that he is baring his heart in a Herbert way of talking about his experiments and that causes Dan to leave so he put up his walls again and bares megs heart in a desperate attempt to get Dan to stay and it works. This shows herbert that Meg is the only reason they are even interacting. She is the cause of all of his problems. His issues with these feelings that he feels for Dan. He doesn't understand them bc he puts all of his love into science because it's easy to understand. He gets it. He just can't grasp love. So he tries to through Meg. The only way he gets Dan to stay is through her. Later when bride rips her own heart out and in agony ask Dan if it's what he wants and he turns her away it shows that he has finally accepted herbert and is falling for him because he doesn't want megs heart anymore, he wants to make sure herbert isn't dying and he also doesn't hurt bride because it's herbert creation that he is so proud of. When herbert is talking about how he has triumphed over God, he is succeeding in not only defeating death but also in winning Dan's heart. He has finally made Dan see his way of life (we don't talk about beyond, it doesn't exist) But before that Meg still is the antagonist, she is still the thing that herbert is trying to overcome She is still the thing that causes arguments and is the thing that makes herbert start on making bride. If Dan had just walked out I don't think herbert would have kept up with his project, he would have kept doing experiments sure, but he wouldn't have made bride the way he did, if he finished her at all. He only grabbed megs heart because of Dan. It was his way of trying to manipulate Dan into seeing his way of life.

happy reanimator day

he’s just calming his shocked bf nothing new

When Herbert shows up for the apartment tour, the door was opened as Meg was leaving and Herbert didn’t look like he was getting ready to ring the doorbell or knock (maybe he did and I just don’t remember) he was just standing there with his hands in his pockets. This means that Hebert was just standing there for god knows how long waiting for Dan to come and open the door. Which is just another subtle way Herbert is a fucking freak

can’t believe i finally did this trend for a 1980s horror movie

i feel like personally it's hard for me to view The Bride as solely a daughter figure for Dan + Herbert even in an ideal situation, u know?

like she exists in such a Freudian nightmare-space of having to be a projection for every womanly role that Dan (and Herbert!) view as a necessary accessory to "normalize" their own relationship: sexual object, domestic spouse, and nuclear daughter. like it's so scary!! she's fully a grown, adult woman, but she's also thirty minutes old. she has enough autonomy to unmake herself, but she only unmakes herself bc she can't exist outside of the purpose Dan and Herbert gave her.

the amount of "this will fix us" pressure on her is insaannnee. swiss army knife girlsona. i would have clawed my skin off too!!!!

the original ending of beyond re-animator

Respectfully! tired of seeing so much soft and or healthy shit of Herbert West and Daniel Cain. Those two are both morally reprehensible (/pos) and don’t have the slightest idea how healthy relationships work, romantic, sexual or otherwise.

Can I PLEASE get some more “I hate this man and I Need Him in my life” it’s such an interesting dynamic