Here Comes the Bride of Re-Animator article by Chas Balun
from Fangoria #91 | April 1990 (pg. 36 - 40)
bonus highlights because this article altered my brain chemistry:
Right out the gate we are off to the races. Chas really said, "this shit FUCKIN RULES and I will NOT be objective about it!!" Plus calling Herbert, "the bespectacled little guy???" This guy GETS IT!
I too am thankful Dan refuses to leave his "buddy." Is calling two guys "buddies" the gay equivalent of "gal pals?" More at 11.
Fellas....FELLAS??? Commenting on a shirtless Bruce's beefy physique and referring to Jeff as, "small, even delicate," HELLO??? Living for this guy being completely unapologetic in appreciating their physiques. Very understandable.
And lastly, you can't have a comment from Bruce without him being #1 Dan-hater. Calling him a wimp and then confirming that Dan is totally fucked up in the head. Get his ass, king!
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My head canon for Bride for Reanimator was that Herbert wasn't trying to be symbolic when he gave him Meg's heart, in fact he was doing the exact opposite. At her funeral or something he over heard Dan saying he loved Meg's heart, in reference to her morals, determination, values whatever. And Herbert was like "What the fuck??? Her organs??? I was just gonna give him her boobs or something but I guess this works too."
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Additional Canon Details/Fun Facts from the RA Novelization:
* Herbert continued to use samples of Rufus’s tissue after three reanimations. He labeled the samples “Arcane” (R. Cain), as to not upset Dan.
* Herbert wrote the name “L. A. Zarus” on his toe-tag when he and Dan snuck into the morgue.
* Meg is also a medical student, but studies medicine “informally” and “(doesn’t want) to practice it.”
* When he first touched a dead body, Dan thought the skin felt like “a milk carton,” and it ruined milk for him.
* The house Dan and Herbert live in once belonged to a horror author named “Philips.” Who died in the basement and wasn’t discovered for weeks. How does Herbert respond to this information?
“What a waste.”
* In another nod to Lovecraft, one of Dan’s work colleagues is named Charles Ward.
* Meg, at one point in the novel, eats at a restaurant called the Nocturnal Diggers Diner. (Bitchin’ name!)
* Meg was essentially raised solely by her father Alan Halsey, after her mother (Diana) left both of them to join the Peace Corps.
* When Herbert was in sixth grade, he crafted a science fair project where he kept a mouse alive for a day using a pint of his own blood.
* Dan is said to have dealt with bats in the attic of the house. He fixed the issue by poisoning what bats he came across and then “(nailing) their carcasses to the outside wall.” (WTF, Daniel?!)
* Meg is almost never called “Meg” in the novel, always “Megan.” Which is mostly the opposite of how it is in the film.
* Mace, the morgue security guard, promptly quit his job by walking out of the hospital after the Miskatonic Massacre. (Good for him!)
* Herbert’s last words are: “Gruber, I join you…I join you!”
* West was deemed innocent by investigators in the wake of his death, the blame for the event instead put mainly on Dean Halsey.
* Dan and Meg (or Meg’s reanimated body) vanished after the massacre, presumably never to be seen again.
(Due to the popularity of these posts, I considered doing one exclusively about Meg, but there’s really not too much added to her character, so this is my alternative addition.)
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random guy, about me as he passed by me: HER SHIRT SAID SOMETHING ABOUT FEMINISM!!!!
the shirt in question:
me, internally: first of all, i’m a guy, and second——this was a quote by a misogynistic twink!!
me: wrong on all counts, jackass!!
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