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Stuart Gordon

Stuart Gordon was a writer-director-producer of film, television and theater. He is best known for the cult classic Re-Animator and for having murdered his wife Carolyn in his films whenever possible.

Stuart Gordon (Re-Animator) Talks Todd Haynes’ Carol

A recent convert to the fiction of Patricia Highsmith is transported back to his past by a spot-on adaptation of her once-scandalous second novel.

November 24, 2015

Stuart Gordon (Re-Animator) Talks Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala’s Goodnight Mommy

A horror movie that caused an audience member to have a seizure? Yes, it's that good.

September 15, 2015

Stuart Gordon (Re-Animator) Talks Kyle Patrick Alvarez’s The Stanford Prison Experiment

This vivid rendition of the infamous 1971 pschological study is so powerfully impactful it is likely to prompt your own incarceration flashbacks...

July 20, 2015

Stuart Gordon (Re-Animator) Talks Rodney Ascher’s The Nightmare

In the most famously haunted hotel in America, a film scares this Master of Horror with a most powerful weapon: the truth.

June 3, 2015

Stuart Gordon (Re-Animator) Talks Anja Marquardt’s She’s Lost Control

This psychosexual thriller, about a sexual surrogate and the unhinged client who gets too close, conjures up a convincingly depressing world.

March 27, 2015

Stuart Gordon (Re-Animator) Talks The Mo Brothers’ Killers

A dark, compelling thriller about an unholy alliance between a journalist and a maker of snuff films hides a sinister "family" connection in amongst a

January 28, 2015

Stuart Gordon (Re-Animator) Talks Angus Sampson and Tony Mahony’s The Mule

The veteran horror director highly recommends this taut, tough, darkly funny Australian thriller, but warns that it's not one for the squeamish.

November 21, 2014

Stuart Gordon (Re-Animator) Talks Various Directors’ The ABCs of Death 2

The veteran horror director rummages through this grab bag of 26 shorts, and focuses on the ones that are horrible in the best sense of the word.

Stuart Gordon (Re-Animator) Talks Leigh Janiak’s Honeymoon

The fear of the unknown is the most primal terror of them all, and a young writer-director brilliantly exploits this in her feature debut.

September 11, 2014

Stuart Gordon (Re-Animator) Talks Manuel Martín Cuenca’s Cannibal

The veteran horror director gets a taste of this arty Spanish tale of a serial killer with a penchant for human flesh.

July 29, 2014

Stuart Gordon (Re-Animator) Talks Katrin Gebbe’s Nothing Bad Can Happen

Nothing Bad Can Happen is a German film that couldn’t have been made a few years ago. Although the Germans have no problem with sex scenes...

July 3, 2014

Stuart Gordon (Re-Animator) Talks Ti West’s The Sacrament

The Sacrament can be described as a “found-footage” film. This term was popularized by The Blair Witch Project in 1999...

June 10, 2014