The filmmaker’s other credits included From Beyond and Space Truckers.
Several notable film directors have brought the “weird” tales of horror novelist H.P.
Gordon also developed the story which became the 1989 hit movieHoney, I Shrunk the Kids.
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“[The audience] gets totally covered in blood,“Gordon told EW in 2012.
“A lot of them wear white because its sort of a badge of honor.
People show up in white tuxedos and lab coats, all decked out.
You know, we offer them plastic garbage bags to wear.
“Sorry to hear about the great Stuart Gordon passing,“wrote Wright.
Put a plaque up at Miskatonic University for him.”
“In eight words he answered why we make them and watch them.
Stuart, you made the finest.
RIP, my friend.”
“To know Stuart Gordon was to love Stuart Gordon,“wrote Garris.
“One of the true Masters of Horror and a wonderful, wonderful man.
He was brilliant, funny, and always at the top of his game.
So hard to say goodbye.
We love you and miss you, Stuart.”
Barbara Crampton has also expressed her loss at Gordon’s passing.
“He created countless moments on film which were at once, funny, scary, daring & smart.
He gave me my career.
I lost a dear friend.
No words can do him justice.
RIP Stuart Gordon.”
