While co-hosting (with festival head Rachel Belofsky and Jonna Jackson) last week’s Screamfest La mixer at Te’Kila and 504 on Hollywood Boulevard (in attendance were horror movers and shakers John Skipp, F. Javier Gutiérrez, Stephen Goldmann, John Michael Elfers, Drina Durazo and more), I caught up with Re-Animator filmmaker Stuart Gordon in order to discuss his current projects as well as the currently previewing play Re-Animator – The Musical.
Opening on March 5th at the Steve Allen Theatre in Hollywood, CA, the stage musical incarnation of Gordon’s 1985 filmic hit (both of which center around Dr. Herbert West, a medical student obsessed with reanimating the dead) runs Friday through Saturday nights through March 27, and Gordon told us of the play over a cocktail amid the boisterous din, “Audiences seem to really like it, which is great! We’re previewing all weekend, and those nights are already sold out, which is a wonderful thing.
Opening on March 5th at the Steve Allen Theatre in Hollywood, CA, the stage musical incarnation of Gordon’s 1985 filmic hit (both of which center around Dr. Herbert West, a medical student obsessed with reanimating the dead) runs Friday through Saturday nights through March 27, and Gordon told us of the play over a cocktail amid the boisterous din, “Audiences seem to really like it, which is great! We’re previewing all weekend, and those nights are already sold out, which is a wonderful thing.
- 3/1/2011
- by SeanD.
- DreadCentral.com
The votes have been compiled and counted, and the readers have spoken: It’s time to announce the winners in our poll of the best horror films and filmmakers of 2008, as well as how the runners-up placed. Elaborating on our report in Fangoria #285 (on sale now), here’s a complete rundown of how the nominees ranked, in descending order, with write-ins also acknowledged (and don’t worry, fans, we’ll get to Martyrs and Deadgirl next year!):
Best Wide-release Film
Hellboy II: The Golden Army (pictured)
Cloverfield
The Strangers
The Ruins
Quarantine
Write-ins: Funny Games; Doomsday; Mirrors
Best Limited-release/Direct-to-video Film
Let The Right One In
Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer
Rogue
Stuck
The Living And The Dead
Write-ins: Inside; Machine Girl; Mother Of Tears
Best Actor
Ron Perlman, Hellboy II: The Golden Army
Kare Hedebrant, Let The Right One In
Marc Senter, The Lost
Trevor Matthews, Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer
Leo Bill,...
Best Wide-release Film
Hellboy II: The Golden Army (pictured)
Cloverfield
The Strangers
The Ruins
Quarantine
Write-ins: Funny Games; Doomsday; Mirrors
Best Limited-release/Direct-to-video Film
Let The Right One In
Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer
Rogue
Stuck
The Living And The Dead
Write-ins: Inside; Machine Girl; Mother Of Tears
Best Actor
Ron Perlman, Hellboy II: The Golden Army
Kare Hedebrant, Let The Right One In
Marc Senter, The Lost
Trevor Matthews, Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer
Leo Bill,...
- 6/25/2009
- by no-reply@fangoria.com (Michael Gingold)
- Fangoria
Stuck was one of the best surprises of last year, a wonderfully macabre and worrying B-movie based on the true story of a Texan woman who ran over a homeless man and then drove home with him ‘stuck’ in her windshield (still alive). She garaged her car, and had sex with her boyfriend. Though embellished for the screen, knowledge that much of the absurdity on display really happened makes it all the more appealing. Stuart Gordon (Re-Animator, Fortress) manages to stay true to the B-movie material, with tight plotting and some truly cringe-inducing, gooey moments as Stephen Rea’s homeless man struggles to free himself. Increasingly tense with a sly dose of black comedy, what ultimately impresses is the sense of melancholy that strings the whole thing together whether in sympathy for the victim or puzzlement of how someone could wrong-do an innocent so horribly.
Stuck is out on UK...
Stuck is out on UK...
- 5/8/2009
- by James Dennis
- Screen Anarchy
After a few years’ absence, the Fangoria Chainsaw Awards are back in their original format, giving you the chance to vote for the best genre films, filmmakers and actors from the past year. There was such a bumper crop of good stuff released in 2008 that narrowing down the nominees to five in certain categories was truly tough; a couple of movies (most notably Splinter) will wait till next year when they’ve gotten more DVD exposure.
E-mail your votes (be sure to vote in all categories; personal e-mails only, no mass ballots) to postalzone@starloggroup.com. For the Fango Hall of Fame, be sure not to vote for Dario Argento, Rick Baker, Clive Barker, Mario Bava, Rob Bottin, Doug Bradley, Tim Burton, Bruce Campbell, James Cameron, John Carpenter, Jeffrey Combs, Don Coscarelli, Wes Craven, David Cronenberg, Jamie Lee Curtis, Peter Cushing, Joe Dante, Guillermo del Toro, Brad Dourif, Robert Englund,...
E-mail your votes (be sure to vote in all categories; personal e-mails only, no mass ballots) to postalzone@starloggroup.com. For the Fango Hall of Fame, be sure not to vote for Dario Argento, Rick Baker, Clive Barker, Mario Bava, Rob Bottin, Doug Bradley, Tim Burton, Bruce Campbell, James Cameron, John Carpenter, Jeffrey Combs, Don Coscarelli, Wes Craven, David Cronenberg, Jamie Lee Curtis, Peter Cushing, Joe Dante, Guillermo del Toro, Brad Dourif, Robert Englund,...
- 3/14/2009
- Fangoria
This past year was a pretty damn good one for horror—as long as you didn’t depend on the mainstream. While most of the wide-release features conformed safely to formula, much more daring and interesting stuff was cropping up all over the art-house, festival and DVD scene.
Perhaps no better example can be drawn than the fact that while the bloodless, predictable Twilight was sucking millions of bucks out of tween girls at the multiplexes, the small Swedish import Let The Right One In, a modern classic on the same theme, was quietly knocking out audiences on a much smaller scale. Not everything the studios gave us in 2008 was negligible; a couple of titles from the majors made my top 10, and The Ruins and The Strangers would be among the runners-up. But there are far more indie features swarming like piranhas just below my list…
1.) Let The Right One In...
Perhaps no better example can be drawn than the fact that while the bloodless, predictable Twilight was sucking millions of bucks out of tween girls at the multiplexes, the small Swedish import Let The Right One In, a modern classic on the same theme, was quietly knocking out audiences on a much smaller scale. Not everything the studios gave us in 2008 was negligible; a couple of titles from the majors made my top 10, and The Ruins and The Strangers would be among the runners-up. But there are far more indie features swarming like piranhas just below my list…
1.) Let The Right One In...
- 12/29/2008
- Fangoria
This week's DVD front offers a buffet of genres as usual, we'll focus on several films in particular which may be of interest. 1. First up we have "Stuck" from Image Entertainment starring Mena Suvari , Stephen Rea , Russell Hornsby , Rukiya Bernard , Carolyn Purdy-Gordon , Lionel Smith , Wayne Robson , Patrick McKenna , Sharlene Royer. Image Entertainment distributes this thriller/horror which first surfaced during the Cannes Film Festival last May and later at the Fantasy Film Fest, followed by a September 10th showing at the Toronto International Film Festival. It saw limited release on May 30th this year. Stuart Gordon, known for his work on "Edmond" starring William H. Macy, helms and writes alongside John Strysik (the "Dark Romances" volume of films). Mena Suvari unforgettably stars as Brandi, a hard-partying, overworked nursing assistant in this delicious, darkly humorous psychological thriller from director Stuart Gordon. Brandi accidentally steers her car into a homeless man, movingly played by Stephen Rea,...
- 10/13/2008
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Opens: Friday, May 30 (ThinkFilm)
Cult filmmaker Stuart Gordon ("Re-Animator") has found more inspiration from the tawdry true-life story that inspired his latest film than might have been expected.
While "Stuck" inevitably feels padded in its elongated fictional depiction of a horrific incident -- involving a woman who hit a man with her car and then refused to help him even while he was trapped in her windshield -- it has enough sustained tension, dark humor and quiet social commentary to make it a strong candidate for B-movie cult status.
The effective screenplay at first alternates between depicting the contrasting situations of its two main characters: Brandi (Mena Suvari), a retirement home caregiver who spends her free time partying hard with her drug-dealing boyfriend, Rashid (Russell Hornsby); and the unemployed and newly homeless Tom (Stephen Rea), who faces frustration everywhere he turns, even when he tries to spend the night on a park bench.
Sadly wandering the streets with his shopping cart, Tom is hit dead-on by a drugged out, cell phone-distracted Brandi and winds up stuck in her car windshield, badly injured and bleeding heavily. Although she starts to go for help, Brandi, worried that the trouble she'll get in will interfere with her impending job promotion, panics and heads home, leaving the car, with Tom Still attached to it, in her garage.
Thus begins a series of increasingly desperate attempts by Brandi to cover her tracks and Tom to get free before he bleeds to death.
Needing to fill out a feature-length running time, Gordon and screenwriter John Strysik provide various plot digressions, mostly involving Brandi's contentious relationship with the deceptively tough-talking Rashid, that reduce the narrative momentum.
But the film really comes together in the final reel, when the cat-and-mouse game between Tom and his blandly amoral tormentors escalates in dramatic tension and violence. These sequences well showcase the skills of the director, who is forced to tell a good part of his story within extremely narrow confines.
Suvari brings unexpected shadings to her psychotically self-absorbed Brandi ("Why are you doing this to me?" she screams to her impaled victim at one point), while Rea invests his character with the sort of quiet determination in the face of adversity that makes his later physical derring-do all the more credible.
Production: Image Entertainment/Regal Entertainment.
Cast: Stephen Rea, Mena Suvari, Russell Hornsby, Rukiya Bernard, Carolyn Purdy-Gordon, Lionel Mark Smith.Director-story: Stuart Gordon. Screenwriter: John Strysik. Executive producers: John F.S. Laing, Tim McGrath, Andrew Arno.
Rated R, 85 minutes.
Cult filmmaker Stuart Gordon ("Re-Animator") has found more inspiration from the tawdry true-life story that inspired his latest film than might have been expected.
While "Stuck" inevitably feels padded in its elongated fictional depiction of a horrific incident -- involving a woman who hit a man with her car and then refused to help him even while he was trapped in her windshield -- it has enough sustained tension, dark humor and quiet social commentary to make it a strong candidate for B-movie cult status.
The effective screenplay at first alternates between depicting the contrasting situations of its two main characters: Brandi (Mena Suvari), a retirement home caregiver who spends her free time partying hard with her drug-dealing boyfriend, Rashid (Russell Hornsby); and the unemployed and newly homeless Tom (Stephen Rea), who faces frustration everywhere he turns, even when he tries to spend the night on a park bench.
Sadly wandering the streets with his shopping cart, Tom is hit dead-on by a drugged out, cell phone-distracted Brandi and winds up stuck in her car windshield, badly injured and bleeding heavily. Although she starts to go for help, Brandi, worried that the trouble she'll get in will interfere with her impending job promotion, panics and heads home, leaving the car, with Tom Still attached to it, in her garage.
Thus begins a series of increasingly desperate attempts by Brandi to cover her tracks and Tom to get free before he bleeds to death.
Needing to fill out a feature-length running time, Gordon and screenwriter John Strysik provide various plot digressions, mostly involving Brandi's contentious relationship with the deceptively tough-talking Rashid, that reduce the narrative momentum.
But the film really comes together in the final reel, when the cat-and-mouse game between Tom and his blandly amoral tormentors escalates in dramatic tension and violence. These sequences well showcase the skills of the director, who is forced to tell a good part of his story within extremely narrow confines.
Suvari brings unexpected shadings to her psychotically self-absorbed Brandi ("Why are you doing this to me?" she screams to her impaled victim at one point), while Rea invests his character with the sort of quiet determination in the face of adversity that makes his later physical derring-do all the more credible.
Production: Image Entertainment/Regal Entertainment.
Cast: Stephen Rea, Mena Suvari, Russell Hornsby, Rukiya Bernard, Carolyn Purdy-Gordon, Lionel Mark Smith.Director-story: Stuart Gordon. Screenwriter: John Strysik. Executive producers: John F.S. Laing, Tim McGrath, Andrew Arno.
Rated R, 85 minutes.
- 5/29/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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