Stuart Gordon

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Stuart Gordon: Biography

Birth Place: Chicago, IL
Date of Birth / Zodiac Sign: 08/11/1947, Leo
Profession: Director; screenwriter; producer; actor

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Stuart Gordon: TV Guide News

NBC Hopes to Scare Up Ratings with Fear Itself | Today's News: Our Take | 3/3/2008
NBC has recruited a long list of noted directors, actors and writers for its 13-episode suspense and horror anthology series Fear Itself. The series, produced by LionsGate and Industry Entertainment, will boast the work of award-winning horror directors John Landis (An American Werewolf in London), Darren Bousman (Saw II), Brad Anderson (The Machinist), Mary Harron (American Psycho), Stuart Gordon (Re-Animator) and Heroes' Ernest Dickerson. Superman Returns' Brandon Routh and Mad Men's Elisabeth Moss join Cynthia Watros (Lost), Eric Roberts (Heroes) and Larry Gilliard Jr. (The Wire), along with a boatload of other actors who will earn some screen time in one of the series' episodes. And just what kind of horrors can you expect? Landis' "A Nightmare in Lace" follows a bride who receives word on her wedding day that her groom is a serial killer, and Harron's "Community" features a young couple who find their dream home in the perfect neighborhood (until their neighbors start killing... read more
DVD Tuesday: Re-Animator Reanimated! | Ask FlickChick | 3/20/2007
Send your movie questions to FlickChick.See Maitland McDonagh and Ken Fox review this week's new flicks in Movie Talk!I can't believe Re-Animator, one of my great horror-movie viewing experiences of the 1980s, is more than 20 years old. But the release of a new, two-disc special-edition DVD from Anchor Bay is an excellent excuse to revisit it in DVD Tuesday. The 1980 success of Friday the 13th launched a string of stalk-and-slash movies, and while the cream of the slasher crop includes some top-notch fright flicks, overall it's not my favorite kind of horror film. Which only makes Re-Animator that much more delightfully surprising. A throwback to the golden age of manmade-monster movies based on H.P. Lovecraft's then little-known Herbert West: Re-Animator, master of horror Stuart Gordon's debut film manages the tricky feat of being genuinely shocking and genuinely funny.Let me be clear: I hate horror comedies in general and horror spoofs in particular. But Re-Animator doesn't make... read more
Stuart Gordon on Re-Animator and more! | Ask FlickChick | 3/20/2007
Read the Re-Animator Reanimated DVD Tuesday blog.Send your movie questions to FlickChick.See Maitland McDonagh and Ken Fox review this week's new flicks in Movie Talk!On the occasion of a new DVD of Re-Animator, director Stuart Gordon shared some thoughts with Maitland McDonagh about horror, humor and severed heads.Maitland McDonagh: Re-Animator continues to attract new viewers while many of its contemporaries are gathering dust on the shelves. Why?Stuart Gordon: Re-Animator is into its third generation now – which I think is partly because it can still take people by surprise. Dr. Hill [David Gale] is an outrageous character -- I mean, he's lusting after that poor girl even when he's a severed head being carried around in a bag. But I think it's also Dr. West [Jeffrey Combs]: He's so myopic, so possessed by the vision of what he wants to do to the exclusion of everything else that his mania is funny and horrifying at the same time. And when you look past the corpses, I think... read more
January 19, 2007: Tale of The Black Cat | Masters of Horror | 1/22/2007
"Meow meow meow meow meow meow." My black cat, "Sprite" wanted to get her 2 pounce in about this week's Masters of Horror episode, The Black Cat. I had to give her a six-word limit, or else she would have hijacked this post. She gives it 4 out of 4 claws, mostly because she thought that "Pluto" the cat was very handsome (even with just one eye). Ahem.How can I find the words to describe Stuart Gordon's adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's The Black Cat, when all I can think is "wow?" I've always enjoyed Stuart Gordon's masterful cinematic interpretations of H.P. Lovecraft's work, and had hoped he would bring the same atmospheric, dramatic and gory details to his Edgar Allan Poe debut. Well, he did, and I would love to see Gordon take on even more Poe in the coming years. Come on, Stuart, we know you can't resist the pulse of The Tell-Tale Heart!As Gordon explained in the Fangoria interview I posted Friday, The Black Cat does get into some difficult terrain with realistic scenes of... read more
January 19, 2007: Masters of Horror Fearful Feature | Masters of Horror | 1/19/2007
Fangoria.com has posted a "Fearful Feature" on tonight's Masters of Horror episode, The Black Cat. It's a really good interview with "Master Director" Stuart Gordon and our beloved genre actor Jeffrey Combs, who I am certain will make a perfect Edgar Allan Poe in this episode. It's a good read; great to get primed for tonight! Enjoy.[Click Here to Read the Feature] read more