Tag: Stuart Gordon
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Stuart Gordon’s Memoir Details Cult Horror Director’s Monster Creations, Family Life, and Passion For Grand Storytelling
Stuart Gordon is known as a master of horror, earning the title from his work on such seminal 1980s genre films as “Re-Animator,” “From Beyond” and “Dolls.” But the director, who died in March 2020, was also a master storyteller — so his family can be forgiven for sometimes wondering if he was prone to…
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How A Series Of Gory B-Horror Films Led To Honey, I Shrunk The Kids
When Martin Scorsese set to work making “Hugo,” a film based on Brian Selznick’s children’s book “The Invention of Hugo Cabret,” it immediately got tongues wagging. What on Earth was the director behind films like “Taxi Driver,” “Goodfellas,” and “The Departed” doing helming a whimsical kids’ adventure? At the time, his youngest daughter, Francesca (who’s…