My epic journey through Stuart Gordon’s life’s work comes to a close with a look back at his taped TV adaptation of the Chicago theater staple Bleacher Bums.
Read MoreStuart Gordon + SCTV? It happened, for a 1988 children’s instructional safety video, of all things.
Read MoreYou know who was great? Stuart Gordon. That man made a lot of good movies. Movies like 2007’s terrific and uncompromising Stuck.
Read MoreStuart Gordon is a true auteur as well as a frightmaster but his 1990 television movie Daughter of Darkness is distressingly impersonal despite a solid turn from Anthony Perkins as an Eastern European vampire with dignity.
Read MoreFinding out that Stuart Gordon died thirteen years after making his final film, 2007’s terrific Stuck, has me angry all over again about the way we treat great older artists: terribly.
Read MoreStuart Gordon pays tribute to one of his big inspirations in an adaptation of “The Black Cat” with Jeffrey Combs in the lead role of a half-mad and cat-fearing Edgar Allan Poe.
Read MoreElizabeth Moss is a rookie cop facing down the metaphorical monster of sexism and the literal monster of a cannibalistic voodoo serial killer on the loose in this masterful entry from Fear Itself directed by the great Stuart Gordon.
Read MoreStuart Gordon’s winning streak continues with a nifty adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft’s “Dreams in the Witch-House” for Masters of Horror.
Read MoreFrightmaster. Stuart Gordon got PG and family-friendly but retained his mastery of the art of film with his wonderful 1998 Ray Bradbury adaptation The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit.
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