Top 5 Most Powerful Performances in Horror History Since 1960!
#4- Jeffrey Combs as Herbert West in Stuart Gordon’s Re-Animator (1985)
Jeffrey Combs as Herbert West in Stuart Gordon’s ‘Re-Animator’-Empire Pictures
“No, I did not. I gave him life” – Herbert West
Raising the dead on our list of best performances is horror vet Jeffrey Combs, playing the incomparable Herbert West. Providing his most hailed role in Stuart Gordon’s 1985 masterpiece, Re-Animator, Combs is simply chilling as the doctor with a passion for the deceased.
What makes Combs so greatly spellbinding, other than bringing to life the script he was given, is the sensational subtlety. Properly portraying West’s drive and unflinching determination, taking your eyes off of Combs is an impossibility.
Fully displaying his pure passion for science and its progression, Combs is simply magnetic in Re-Animator. In fact, Combs is so amazing as Herbert West, watching his performance is murdering mayhem.
