Italian indie filmmaker Ivan Zuccon has been speaking to Coming Soon about his upcoming project Herbert West: Re-Animator, a new take on the H.P. Lovecraft story which is set to be presented as a web-series, TV series and finally a feature film. Here’s the teaser poster, followed by Zuccon’s comments below…
“Herbert West: Re-Animator is a modular project. We start with a web series, them we’ll have a TV series and at the end of the journey we’ll have a feature film. The web series is currently in post-production and we are going to release it by the end of the summer. It’s a very ambitious project. Of course I know that Gordon and Yuzna made great movies on the same subject but I am crazy enough to try to find a different way, a more personal one, and tell the story with a very different angle. First, I’ll dig some elements of the original Lovecraft tales trying to keep the same atmosphere you can find reading the stories. Second, I am taking the distance from the Lovecraft tale at one point drawing an Herbert West with a different characterization. In the stories, he is obsessed by death and the idea to overtake the concept of death at any cost. So the struggle is between him and his obsession. In the new movie West is destroyed by a huge loss and he wants to defeat death in order to have his beloved ones back. It’s just a different perspective but with the same result: lots of experiments with lost of failures and lots of reanimated and very aggressive corpses. It’s very dramatic without any kind of comedy accent we have seen with the Yuzna/Gordon installments.”
For more information on Herbert West: Re-Animator, visit the official Facebook page.
Originally published June 18, 2017. Updated April 16, 2018.
