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| Zurich | |
| Aliases: | Zürich |
| Category: | City |
| Region: | Western Europe |
| Continent: | Europe |
| Country: | Switzerland |
| Points of interest: | University of Zurich |
Zürich is a city in the country of Switzerland. It is the largest city in the country with a total land area of 33.93 square miles. It boasts a population of more than 383,000 people. Zurich is located in north-central Switzerland at the northwestern tip of Lake Zürich.
In the horror genre, Zürich plays a minor role in the Re-Animator film series. The Universität Zürich, or University of Zurich is located here. The city, and the university appear in the opening scenes of the first installment in the series, Re-Animator in 1985. This was where the ambitious young genius, Herbert West, attended school, before returning to the United States to continue his studies at Miskatonic University.
It was at the University of Zurich that Herbert West first developed his theories on cellular reanimation. He created a serum, which came to be known as Re-Agent and experimented on one of the staff members named Doctor Gruber. How West chose to select Gruber as his test subject is unclear, but after giving him an injection of Re-Agent, the man suffered adverse physical trauma. His face became ashen and sunken in and he began screaming in agony.
Doctor Gruber's howls of pain alerted some of the nursing staff as well as two university policemen. They barged into Gruber's office where they found West hovering above the man who was still in the throes of massive pain. Gruber suffered a hemorrhage of some kind that caused his eyes to explode, and he fell down dead. The nurse accused West of killing him, but Herbert denied this, citing, "No I did not! I gave him life". [1]
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| Character | Series |
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| Hans Gruber | Re-Animator |
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- Zürich redirects to this page.
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- ↑ Re-Animator (1985); Chapter 1: "Prologue: Zurich".
