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Stuart Gordon

Stuart Gordon has worked as director/ screenwriter/ producer in Hollywood for decades, with projects ranging from "Honey I Shrunk the Kids" to the H.P. Lovecraft adaptation "The Re-Animator."
"Re-Animator" received outstanding reviews from critics nationwide and won a Critic's Prize at the Cannes Film Festival.

This cult filmmaker first gained notoriety in his senior year at the University of Wisconsin for staging an unorthodox version of "Peter Pan." Gordon went on to form the Organic Theatre in 1969, and oversaw dozens of unique plays, including work by David Mamet. As Organic's artistic director, Gordon helped nurture the talents of a number of actors and playwrights who went on to realize successful stage and screen careers, including Joe Mantegna, Dennis Franz, Andre De Shields and Mamet.

Gordon left the theater in 1983 and made his film debut with "Re-Animator" in (1985), noted by some reviews as a "deliriously grotesque (but very funny) adaptation" of H.P. Lovecraft. This was the first of six Lovecraft adaptation directed by Gordon, which received commercial and critical success.

After "Re-Animator," Gordon returned to Lovecraft again for "From Beyond" (1986), then tackled murderous dolls in "Dolls" (1987), post-apocalyptic fighting machines in "Robot Jox" (1990), a graphic retelling of "The Pit and the Pendulum" (1991), and a high-tech futuristic prison in "Fortress" (1993). Gordon also co-wrote the story of "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids" (1989) and was co-executive producer on its sequel, "Honey, I Blew Up the Kid" (1992).

Gordon's film adaptation of Ray Bradbury's short story "The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit," was backed by Disney, starring Joe Mantegna and Edward James Olmos.

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