11 Movies Directed by Stuart Gordon

Re-Animator

Re-Animator

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1985-10-18

Languages:

English, German

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

104 min

Rated:

UNRATED

IMDB Ratings:

7.3 (35653 Reviews)

Director:

Stuart Gordon

Cast:

Writer:

H.P. Lovecraft (story)

Dennis Paoli (screenplay)

William Norris (screenplay)

Stuart Gordon (screenplay)

Fullplot:

A medical student and his girlfriend become involved in a bizarre experiment into reanimating the dead conducted by the student's incorrigible housemate in this campy sendup of an H.P. Lovecraft story. The emphasis is on humour but once the dead walk, there is gore aplenty.

From Beyond

From Beyond

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1986-10-24

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

86 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.8 (13384 Reviews)

Director:

Stuart Gordon

Cast:

Writer:

H.P. Lovecraft (short story)

Brian Yuzna (adaptation)

Dennis Paoli (adaptation)

Stuart Gordon (adaptation)

Dennis Paoli (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Dr. Edward Pretorius and his assistant, the physician Crawford Tillinghast, have developed the Resonator, a machine to stimulate the sixth sense through the pineal gland. When Crawford activates the apparatus, he sees creatures flying in the air and he summons Dr. Pretorius. The experiment goes out of control and Dr. Pretorius refuses to turn off the Resonator. Meanwhile their neighbor calls the police, and when the police officers arrive, they see Crawford trying to escape from his house and Dr. Pretorius beheaded. Crawford is sent to a mental institution under the supervision of the sadistic Dr. Bloch. However, the prominent psychiatrist Dr. Katherine McMichaels requests the custody of Crawford and Detective Bubba Brownlee that is investigating the case stays with them. Katherine goes with Crawford and Bubba to see the Resonator and turns the machine on. Dr. Pretorius returns in a mutant shape and attacks them, in the beginning of a gore night with weird life forms.

Dolls

Dolls

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1987-05-29

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA, Italy

Runtime:

77 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.4 (5586 Reviews)

Director:

Stuart Gordon

Fullplot:

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.

The Pit and the Pendulum

The Pit and the Pendulum

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1991-06-27

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

97 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.2 (2636 Reviews)

Director:

Stuart Gordon

Genres:

Horror

Cast:

Writer:

Edgar Allan Poe (story)

Dennis Paoli

Fullplot:

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...

Robot Jox

Robot Jox

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1990-11-21

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

85 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

5.3 (4056 Reviews)

Director:

Stuart Gordon

Genres:

ActionSci-Fi

Cast:

Writer:

Stuart Gordon (story)

Joe Haldeman (screenplay)

Fullplot:

It is post-World War III. War is outlawed. In its place, are matches between large Robots called Robot Jox. These matches take place between two large superpowers over disputed territories. The main character Achilles is a pilot in one of the large Robots. The plot revolves around him and a match for the state of Alaska.

Fortress

Fortress

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1993-09-03

Languages:

English

Countries:

Australia, USA

Runtime:

95 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

5.8 (22377 Reviews)

Director:

Stuart Gordon

Cast:

Writer:

Troy Neighbors (story)

Steven Feinberg (story)

Troy Neighbors (screenplay)

Steven Feinberg (screenplay)

David Venable (screenplay)

Terry Curtis Fox (screenplay)

Fullplot:

A futuristic prison movie. Protagonist and wife are nabbed at a future US emigration point with an illegal baby during population control. The resulting prison experience is the subject of the movie. The prison is a futuristic one run by a private corporation bent on mind control in various ways.

Space Truckers

Space Truckers

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1997-04-01

Languages:

English

Countries:

UK, USA, Ireland

Runtime:

95 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

5.1 (5045 Reviews)

Director:

Stuart Gordon

Cast:

Writer:

Ted Mann (screenplay)

Stuart Gordon (story)

Ted Mann (story)

Fullplot:

John Canyon is one of the last independent space transport entrepreneurs. Rough times force him to carry suspicious cargo to Earth without questions being asked. During the flight the cargo turns out to be multitude of unstoppable and deadly killer robots.

The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit

The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1998-01-23

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

77 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

6.6 (480 Reviews)

Director:

Stuart Gordon

Cast:

Writer:

Ray Bradbury (short story)

Ray Bradbury (play)

Ray Bradbury (teleplay)

Fullplot:

Gomez is a middle-aged man who dreams of buying a gorgeous white suit in a nearby store, but doesn't have enough cash. He finds 4 more people of same size, who each give $20 and get to wear the suit for an hour each in return. But the suit is not just a suit - it makes wishes of the one wearing it come true.

Dagon

Dagon

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2001-10-31

Languages:

English, Gallegan, Spanish

Countries:

Spain

Runtime:

98 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.3 (11756 Reviews)

Director:

Stuart Gordon

Cast:

Writer:

H.P. Lovecraft (short stories "Dagon" and "The Shadow Over Innsmouth")

Dennis Paoli (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Based on a short story by H.P. Lovecraft, the undisputed master of the macabre, Dagon tells the story of Paul Marsh, a young man who discovers that the truth will not set him free instead it condemns him to a waking nightmare of unrelenting horror. A boating accident off the coast of Spain sends Paul and his girlfriend Barbara to the decrepit fishing village of Imboca looking for help. As night falls, people start to disappear and things not quite human start to appear. Paul finds himself pursued by the entire town. Running for his life, he uncovers Imboca's dark secret: that they pray to Dagon, a monstrous god of the sea. And Dagon's unholy offspring are freakish half-human creatures on the loose in Imboca...

Edmond

Edmond

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2006-11-24

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

82 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.3 (9758 Reviews)

Director:

Stuart Gordon

Cast:

Writer:

David Mamet (screenplay)

David Mamet (play)

Fullplot:

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?

Stuck

Stuck

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2009-01-09

Languages:

English, Spanish

Countries:

Canada, UK, USA, Germany

Runtime:

85 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.5 (7974 Reviews)

Director:

Stuart Gordon

Cast:

Writer:

John Strysik (screenplay)

Stuart Gordon (story)

Fullplot:

Brandi is a hard-partying, overworked, nursing assistant desperate for a promotion at the retirement home where she works. After a night of drug-binging and partying, she accidentally hits a certain Thomas Bardo a deadbeat and recently evicted man who gets stuck in the windshield of her car. Not wanting to call for help since she is driving under the influence, Brandi, chooses not to get Thomas medical help and instead drives home and leaves him clinging to his life in the windshield of her car. While Brandi frantically tries to decide what she is going to do, Thomas, tries to free himself knowing his time is running out.

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