First Look at Joseph Morgan and Katie Cassidy in ‘Herbert West: ReAnimator’ Reimagining
A reimagining of H.P. Lovecraft’s story is on the way in Herbert West: ReAnimator, and we have our first look at the cast in their roles.
Earlier this month, we reported that Joseph Morgan (Vampire Diaries) and Katie Cassidy (A Nightmare on Elm Street 2010) had been cast as the leads in Herbert West: ReAnimator, a contemporary reimagining of H.P. Lovecraft‘s classic story. And today, Deadline has our first look at the actors in their respective roles.
In the photos, we see Morgan as the titular mad scientist, Herbert West. Cassidy, meanwhile, plays Dr. Kate Locke, a pathologist who joins West in his attempt to create a serum that brings the dead back to life.
The film is being produced by Bad Injections and will shoot this month in Alton, Illinois, with Woodlake Entertainment fully financing the project.
Michael Grossman will direct from an original screenplay by Jade Sandberg Wallace.
Here’s the extended synopsis: “As a child, Herbert West watches his father Peter reanimate his dead mother Judith in a secret basement lab — only for Judith to mortally wound Peter and nearly kill Herbert before Peter shoots her. The trauma leaves its mark on Herbert, but so does one final image: his mother’s finger, twitching after death. Thirty years later, Herbert West is a brilliant, secretive surgeon still chasing his father’s obsession. Pathologist Kate Locke arrives in town and is drawn into his orbit — first through a spark at a hospital fundraiser, then through his secret lab, where he reveals a serum capable of reanimating severed tissue. Kate, hiding a dark past of her own, is thrilled rather than horrified and moves into West’s mansion to work alongside him. Their early experiments on a cadaver succeed only briefly. West concludes that dead tissue is the problem — they need something fresher.”
Scott Aiello, Ira J Amyx, Randall Newsome, Emma Reinagal, James D. Bryce, Kathryn A Bentley, Jack Lancaster, Amy Holland Pennell, John Pierson, Mindy Shaw, Eric Dean White, Tristan Wilder Hallet, Adrienne Lamping, Aaron Crippen, and Drew Patterson also star.
Said Cassidy, “I am excited to step back into this genre. It’s been a while since I’ve done horror. ”
