Re-Animator
Re - AnimatorfilmmakerStuart Gordonpassed away Tuesday night at the old age of 72 . bear on August 11 , 1947 in Chicago , Illinois , Gordon attend the University of Wisconsin - Madison where he became Byzantine in experimental theater , hop on radical production with sometimes extreme subject matter that pointed the style to his later work as a Godhead of over - the - top horror film . He later founded The Organic Theater Company with his married woman Carolyn Purdy - Gordon .
Gordon ’s theater employment finally did lead him to the human beings of motion-picture show , where he made a momentous debut with his 1985 featureRe - Animator , a gruesome and comicalH.P. Lovecraftadaptation that constitute the theatre director as a singular cinematic talent . Gordon followed upRe - Animatorwith the equally awful furore filmsFrom BeyondandDollsbefore do the bounce to studio apartment filmmaking as the co - Almighty of Disney’sHoney , I Shrunk the Kids , which would go on to be a hit with $ 222 million at the global box billet . But Gordon ’s coquetry with the mainstream did nothing to dull his love of cult movie theater as he soon returned to the managing director ’s chair for the post - apocalyptic sci - fi filmRobot Joxand the Poe adaptationThe Pit and the Pendulum .
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As reported byVariety , Gordon died on Tuesday nighttime aged 72 . No cause of death has yet been turn . He ’s survived by his married woman Purdy - Gordon , daughters Suzanna , Jillian and Margaret Gordon , four grandchild and his crony , David George Gordon .
Though best acknowledge for his gory and screaming horror movie , Gordon also made an encroachment in other genres . In 1992 he direct Christopher Lambert in the action filmFortress , then returned to horror by producing 1993’sBody Snatchers , a remake of the classicInvasion of the Body Snatchers . 1995 marked something of a return home for Gordon as he directedRe - Animatorstars Jeffrey Combs andBarbara Cramptonin the direct - to - picture horror filmCastle Freak , and in 1996 he teamed with Dennis Hopper for the satiric sci - fi filmSpace Truckers .
Gordon ’s last lineament moving-picture show directorial effort came with 2007’sStuck , starring Mena Suvari and Stephen Rea . The director also did employment on television , directing an episode ofHoney , I wither the Kid : The TV Showas well as an installment of the anthology seriesMasters of Horror . Most recently , Gordon was again active in the theater , directingRe - Animatorstar Combs in the solo showNevermore … An Evening with Edgar Allen Poeand directingRe - Animator : The Musical . Though theatre was clearly his first love and one he returned to later in his living , there ’s no doubt Gordon made his great impact as a director of unforgettable and highly influential genre movies . Re - Animatorin finicky stands as one of the great1980s horror filmsand a key movie in the phylogenesis of the revulsion - clowning musical genre .
Rest In Peace Stuart Gordon: August 11, 1947 - March 24, 2020
Source : Variety
