| Biography: Stuart Gordon is a creative horror film director who started his directing career in 1985. He joined with Charles Band and his Empire Pictures to make the company's first big hit, "The Re-Animator (1985)", a modern-day version of the H.P. Lovecraft story with Jeffrey Combs in the lead role. Gordon stayed with Empire and helmed another Lovecraft film, "From Beyond (1986)", and tackled the murderous ... show all |
The Pit and the Pendulum (1991)Thursday, October 8th, 2009 |
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It is the time of the Spanish Inquisition. Maria does not like what is going on during the “Auto De Fe”. When she speaks out, she is arrested and accused of being a witch. Torquemada has plans for her! He orders her tortured, and her tongue to be cut out. Her husband attempts to free her… |
Dolls (1987)Tuesday, July 7th, 2009 |
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A group of travelers spend the night in the mansion of an elderly couple who are dollmakers. However, one of the travelers’ children discovers that the dolls the couple makes are actually humans that the couple has miniaturized and turned into tools for their evil plans. |
Fortress (1993)Monday, June 29th, 2009 |
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In a futuristic USA, it’s forbidden to give birth to more than one child for each woman. As usual, you can escape to Mexico to avoid the authorities in USA, which is exactly what John and Karen Brennick were trying to do when Karen is pregnant with her second child (their first child was born dead). When they think they have made it they are discovered and put to prison (for 31 years), a modern prison called the “Fortress” where the prisoners are controlled by lasers, neutron-cannons, cameras, mind-scanners and electronic pain-causing devices in their stomachs. With those odds, John still plans to escape with his wife. |
Edmond (2005)Thursday, May 29th, 2008 |
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A man in a suit at a Manhattan firm leaves work on Friday; he looks unhappy. He stops at a fortune teller’s for a Tarot reading: “You are not where you belong,” she tells him. That evening he quits his marriage and walks the streets of New York, passing from a classy bar to a gentleman’s club, then to a high-class bordello, a mugging, a pawnshop, and a diner where someone does listen. He shares his insights with her and later with others. Violence, disappointment, and musings entwine as Edmond loses his moorings while believing he’s found them. Where does he belong? |
From Beyond (1986)Tuesday, May 13th, 2008 |
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Dr. Pretorius and his colleagues are working on a sensational experiment: by means of stimulation of the pineal gland, they want to open the human mind to higher dimensions. When the experiment succeeds, however, they are immediately attacked by terrible life forms, which apparently are floating around us all the time. When Dr. Pretorius is killed by one of them, Dr. Tillinghast is under suspect and thrown into the psycho ward due to his stories. Only the ambitious psychologist Dr. McMichaels believes him and wants to continue the experiment. |
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