
Director
Notable Films: Re-Animator (1985), From Beyond (1986), Dolls (1987), Robot Jox (1990)Stuart Gordon made a genius discovery the moment he updated HP Lovecraft by putting the Miskotanic University smack-dab in the middle of the 80s. His film Re-Animator was the first to do this and is the epitome of weird fiction cinema. It's a killer midnight movie full of humor and gratuitous gore, featuring one of the most unsettling sexual encounters one will ever see with a severed head. His second film, From Beyond, takes Lovecraft even further when some scientists build a device that emits a resonance wave that stimulates the pineal gland to perceive planes of existence outside the scope of accepted reality. It gets really twisted and slimy when dimensions start to overlap. That film is a masterwork of weird cinema, and one of my favorites.
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