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Two Stuart Gordon Classics Now on Blu-ray!
Who wants more Full Moon films on Blu-ray, in High-Definition, with incredibly new special features!?! Tomorrow, Tuesday April 30th, two more classics will be released! http://www.fullmoondirect.com/BLU-RAY_c_40.html The Pit & The Pendulum - $19.95 BUY HERE! Remastered in widescreen with 5.1 surround sound -Special Features: -NEW: Behind The Pit & The Pendulum: The Inquisition of Stuart Gordon -NEW: Rare ... Continue Reading

Posted By Full Moon. Monday, April 29th 2013. Under Big News, Featured News, Lab Report, Store

More Fun And Games Down Under: Stuart Gordon’s Lab Report
I was telling a friend about writing the last blog in which I described how Jeffrey Combs and Vernon Wells hijacked a tram full of tourists while we were shooting FORTRESS in Australia and he reminded me of another story that I somehow left out. Dire Straits’ great song HEAVY FUEL ... Continue Reading

Posted By Stuart Gordon. Friday, October 5th 2012. Under Big News, Featured News, Lab Report

Willy Wonka and the Ice Water: Stuart Gordon’s Lab Report
Almost everyone knows that Roald Dahl is the author of wonderful children’s books like CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY and JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH. What many don’t remember is that before writing these charming fables, Mr.Dahl wrote some of the most devilishly disturbing stories since Edgar Allan Poe. And his trademark ... Continue Reading

Posted By Stuart Gordon. Monday, September 17th 2012. Under Big News, Featured News, Lab Report

Fun And Games Down Under: Stuart Gordon’s Lab Report
I’ve already written how Arnold Schwarzenegger helped me get the job to direct FORTRESS. But the first thing I discovered upon being hired was that the film would be shot in Australia. The second thing I discovered was that our date to start shooting was the first week in September ... Continue Reading

Posted By Stuart Gordon. Monday, July 30th 2012. Under Big News, Featured News, Lab Report

Deja Vu All Over Again: Stuart Gordon’s Lab Report
They say that directors keep making the same film over and over again. And this certainly seems to be the case with Ridley Scott’s PROMETHEUS. It’s been called a prequel to his great film ALIEN so I was not surprised when I had this strange feeling that I had ... Continue Reading

Posted By Stuart Gordon. Tuesday, July 10th 2012. Under Big News, Featured News, Lab Report

Death Trip: Stuart Gordon’s Lab Report
STUART GORDON’S LAB REPORT DEATH TRIP RE-ANIMATOR has become my middle name since directing the 1985 film. Not that I’m complaining. In the film the occurrence of brain death is debated long and hard by young genius Herbert West who argues that life is merely a chemical process that can be simply recharged, ... Continue Reading

Posted By Stuart Gordon. Monday, June 25th 2012. Under Big News, Featured News, Lab Report

LIVE FOREVER! Stuart Gordon’s Lab Report
It seems a bit odd that I just wrote an extensive series of Lab Reports about my experiences working with Ray Bradbury on THE WONDERFUL ICE CREAM SUIT, and yesterday awoke to the sad news of his passing. As I always considered him my mentor, I found myself wondering what he’d tell me to do to deal ... Continue Reading

Posted By Stuart Gordon. Monday, June 11th 2012. Under Big News, Featured News, Lab Report

Ice Follies: Stuart Gordon’s Lab Report
STUART GORDON’S LAB REPORT ICE FOLLIES With all the excitement about the LA Kings being in Stanley Cup contention for the first time since the days of the great Wayne Gretzky, it’s reminding me of the time I got to meet him. And of the fact that he was stark naked. I was ... Continue Reading

Posted By Stuart Gordon. Tuesday, June 5th 2012. Under Big News, Featured News, Lab Report

Eagle Claws – Stuart Gordon’s Lab Report
STUART GORDON'S LAB REPORT EAGLE CLAWS I’ve already written about the first attempt to film THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM with the great Peter O’Toole and how it all came crashing down only to rise again like a phoenix two years later with the equally great Lance Henriksen as the grand inquisitor, Torquemada. “How can you ... Continue Reading

Posted By Stuart Gordon. Tuesday, May 29th 2012. Under Big News, Featured News, Lab Report

Hunger Royale: Stuart Gordon’s Lab Report
I just finished reading THE HUNGER GAMES and although I have yet to see the film, I found myself thinking about how it has become such an amazing phenomenon. Suzanne Collins’ wildly popular book creates a depressing future in which a totalitarian country called Panem, made up of twelve districts ... Continue Reading

Posted By Stuart Gordon. Monday, May 14th 2012. Under Big News, Featured News, Lab Report

Re-animator: The Musical Gets Re-animated!
Re-animator: The Musical Gets Re-animated! H.P. Lovecraft's ghoulish tale was first adapted to film by Stuart Gordon and Empire Pictures back in 1985. Starring Jeffrey Combs and Barbara Crampton in their break-out roles, the film went on to become a cult classic amongst horror fans. Last year, Gordon re-visited his adaptation with ... Continue Reading

Posted By Full Moon. Thursday, May 10th 2012. Under Big News, Featured News, Lab Report

A Room Full of Mothers, Part III: Stuart Gordon’s Lab Report
STUART GORDON’S LAB REPORT A ROOM FULL OF MOTHERS, PART III (CLICK HERE FOR PART I) (CLICK HERE FOR PART II) I should have realized that my happy little comedy, “The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit” was in trouble after I had my meeting with the guys at Disney’s Product Placement Department. These are the ... Continue Reading

Posted By Stuart Gordon. Friday, May 4th 2012. Under Big News, Featured News, Lab Report

A Room Full of Mothers: Part II STUART GORDON’S LAB REPORT
Turning “The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit” into a feature film was far from easy. Since Roy Disney ran the Animation Department at Disney, having already created the studio's biggest hits with “The Little Mermaid”, “Beauty and the Beast” and “Aladdin,” his first thought was that “Ice Cream Suit” should be ... Continue Reading

Posted By Stuart Gordon. Thursday, April 26th 2012. Under Big News, Featured News, Lab Report

A Room Full of Mothers: Part 1- Stuart Gordon’s Lab Report
Once upon a time in a galaxy far far away I had the privilege of becoming friends with the legendary Ray Bradbury. The year was 1977 and I was the artistic director of Chicago’s Organic Theater Company and we were on tour presenting our production of Ray’s hilarious and heartfelt play ... Continue Reading

Posted By Full Moon. Monday, April 16th 2012. Under Big News, Featured News, Lab Report

WE STILL LIVE: Stuart Gordon’s Lab Report
STUART GORDON’S LAB REPORT "WE STILL LIVE" My brother David introduced me to Edgar Rice Burroughs’ John Carter on Mars series when we were doing theater in Chicago in the early 1970s. We were creating a three part “Science Fiction Epic Adventure Play in Serial Form” called WARP and it told the ... Continue Reading

Posted By Full Moon. Tuesday, March 27th 2012. Under Big News, Featured News, Lab Report

Stuart Gordon, Barbara Crampton, & more Appearing at HorrorHound Weekend!
Stuart Gordon fans rejoice! The Master of Horror himself will be making an appearance at HorrorHound Weekend in Columbus, Ohio, March 23-25th! If you've been following along with his Lab Report on our site, you know that the highly opinionated director/writer/producer has plenty of tales to tell about working on ... Continue Reading

Posted By Full Moon. Wednesday, March 21st 2012. Under Big News, Lab Report

MMM… MINTY: Stuart Gordon’s Lab Report
STUART GORDON’S LAB REPORT MMM…MINTY! It was a book so disturbing that I had to put it down from time to time to catch my breath. AMERICAN PSYCHO, written by Bret Easton Ellis, came out in 1991 and created a scandal. Its original publisher, Simon & Shuster even refused to publish it, and ... Continue Reading

Posted By Stuart Gordon. Tuesday, March 20th 2012. Under Big News, Featured News, Lab Report

PLAYING GOD: Stuart Gordon’s Lab Report
STUART GORDON’S LAB REPORT PLAYING GOD “When the Jaws die, nobody cry. When my Kong die, everybody cry.” With these words, producer Dino De Laurentiis heralded the release of his 1976 remake of KING KONG. He had hired Italian effects wizard Carl Rambaldi, the man who had brought E.T. to life for Steven ... Continue Reading

Posted By Stuart Gordon. Friday, March 2nd 2012. Under Big News, Featured News, Lab Report

SEVEN SECONDS: Stuart Gordon’s Lab Report
STUART GORDON’S LAB REPORT SEVEN SECONDS Whenever I run into a fan of RE-ANIMATOR, the first thing they want to talk about is “The Scene.” By this I mean the famous “head gives head” sequence, in which the hero’s beautiful blonde girlfriend, Megan Halsey is stripped naked and tied down to ... Continue Reading

Posted By Stuart Gordon. Thursday, February 23rd 2012. Under Big News, Featured News, Lab Report

SEXY KING: STUART GORDON’S LAB REPORT
STUART GORDON’S LAB REPORT SEXY KING Zalman King died this week. He was best known as the writer, director and producer of sexy movies: 91/2 WEEKS, TWO MOON JUNCTION, WILD ORCHID and the Showtime series, THE RED SHOES DIARIES. I got to meet him a few years ago and found him to ... Continue Reading

Posted By Stuart Gordon. Monday, February 13th 2012. Under Big News, Lab Report

KILLER CLOWNS! Stuart Gordon’s Lab Report
STUART GORDON’S LAB REPORT KILLER CLOWNS The first movie I ever saw was Cecil B. DeMille’s circus epic THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH. The year was 1952 (which would make me around four years old.) As it turns out, this same movie was also Steven Spielberg’s first film-going experience, and he has ... Continue Reading

Posted By Stuart Gordon. Wednesday, February 1st 2012. Under Big News, Lab Report

SEX AND DEATH: Stuart Gordon’s Lab Report
STUART GORDON’S LAB REPORT SEX AND DEATH The French refer to an orgasm as “le petit mort” the little death. As experts of l’amour they realize that sex and death are just two sides of the same coin, and those of us who make horror films know that they are certainly onto ... Continue Reading

Posted By Stuart Gordon. Tuesday, January 24th 2012. Under Big News, Lab Report

The T is Silent, Part 2…. Stuart Gordon’s Lab Report
Click Here To Read Part 1! STUART GORDON’S LAB REPORT The T is Silent Part 2 Dave Allen had done the opening scene of the Robot Burial Ground in conventional miniature fashion, on a tabletop in a studio-- the most easily controlled situation. But when I returned to Los Angeles after wrapping principal ... Continue Reading

Posted By Stuart Gordon. Tuesday, January 17th 2012. Under Big News, Lab Report

The T is Silent, Part 1…. Stuart Gordon’s Lab Report
The T is Silent After the success of Re-Animator, I was offered a three picture deal by Empire Pictures, Charles Band’s precursor to Full Moon. The pictures were to be shot in Italy at Dinocitta, the enormous studio complex built by Dino De Laurentiis in the 1960s on the outskirts of ... Continue Reading

Posted By Stuart Gordon. Monday, January 9th 2012. Under Big News, Lab Report

Final Cut: Stuart Gordon’s Lab Report
FINAL CUT A couple of nights ago, I had a nightmare in which I was trying to project a reel of 35 mm film, which I assume was one of my movies. The take-up reel didn’t work and the film began to unspool onto the floor. When I tried to fix ... Continue Reading

Posted By Stuart Gordon. Tuesday, January 3rd 2012. Under Big News, Lab Report

BadAss Gods: Stuart Gordon’s Lab Report
BADASS GODS As an avid reader of the Bible, I’ve always been intrigued by the Second Commandment which reads “Thou shalt have no other gods before me.” It is usually interpreted as “there are no gods but Me” but that’s not what it says. It seems to clearly state the opposite; ... Continue Reading

Posted By Stuart Gordon. Tuesday, December 20th 2011. Under Big News, Lab Report

Sexy Beast! Stuart Gordon tells us Why there is So Much Sex in his H.P. Lovecraft Adaptations
STUART GORDON’S LAB REPORT: Sexy Beast There’s an old joke about a psychiatrist who shows his patient a picture of a square. “What does this look like to you?” he asks him. “It’s a window,” replies the patient, “and it looks like they’re having an orgy in there. Oooh boy!” The psychiatrist writes this ... Continue Reading

Posted By Stuart Gordon. Thursday, December 8th 2011. Under Big News, Lab Report

I Am Not a Hamburger!
STUART GORDON’S LAB REPORT I Am Not a Hamburger When I arrived in Rome to direct DOLLS, the first film in a three picture deal with Charlie Band’s Empire Pictures, I found the studio already bustling with new productions. John Buechler was hard at work directing TROLL on one of the enormous soundstages. ... Continue Reading

Posted By Stuart Gordon. Wednesday, November 30th 2011. Under Big News, Lab Report

Mad Scientists
STUART GORDON’S LAB REPORT: MAD SCIENTISTS Back in 1984, when I was filming RE-ANIMATOR, we needed to shoot the opening scene in which the Swiss police break into a university lab and discover Herbert West trying to revive his mentor, Dr. Gruber. Since we were making the film on a shoestring budget we ... Continue Reading

Posted By Stuart Gordon. Thursday, November 17th 2011. Under Big News, Lab Report

Let’s Get Naked
STUART GORDON’S LAB REPORT One of the most memorable scenes in RE-ANIMATOR is when the first corpse is brought back to life, bites off the medical school dean’s fingers, throws him against a wall, and then pounds him to death. Our hero watches helplessly until Herbert West stops the rampaging corpse ... Continue Reading

Posted By Stuart Gordon. Wednesday, November 9th 2011. Under Big News, Lab Report

Filmmaker Albert Band, in the memories of Filmmaker Stuart Gordon
UNCLE ALBERT: The Making of PIT & the PENDULUM Back in the very early days of Full Moon, when dinosaurs walked the earth, (I think it was 1988), Charlie Band gave the green light to my version of Edgar Allan Poe’s THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM. It was planned to be ... Continue Reading

Posted By Stuart Gordon. Tuesday, November 1st 2011. Under Big News, Lab Report

Monkey Business
A couple of weeks ago I saw RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES. After reading the excellent reviews I was really looking forward to it. Apes have always fascinated me. In fact when I was in college I had taken a course in Human Development that contrasted Man with ... Continue Reading

Posted By Stuart Gordon. Friday, October 21st 2011. Under Big News, Lab Report

Stuart Gordon on: Being Coppola
Back in 1994, when I was about to shoot CASTLE FREAK, Charlie Band decided to have me join him at the Cannes Film Festival to meet with prospective buyers and help sell the film. Even though RE-ANIMATOR had been shown there (and won a Critic’s Prize) in 1985, this was ... Continue Reading

Posted By Stuart Gordon. Wednesday, October 19th 2011. Under Big News, Lab Report