How to watch the movies of Stuart Gordon online

Re-Animator

Gordon’s defining film, a Lovecraft adaptation about a medical student who learns how to bring body parts back to life, is also his easiest movie to stream online. The 1985 film, which has the excellent tagline, “Herbert West has a good head on his shoulders…and another one on his desk,” is streaming now on Showtime, DirecTV, Fubo and Shudder (which has other Gordon movies like Castle Freak and Stuck, as well as the non-Gordon-directed sequel Bride of Re-Animator).

From Beyond

The year after Re-Animator, Gordon tackled another Lovecraft short story to make From Beyond, which sees a scientist become a monster after his experiments drag him into another dimension.

Dagon

Gordon returned to Lovecraft in the new millennium for a folk horror story about a Spanish community that worships a mermaid god. Those who want to see the movie called “so extreme that it borders on camp” by the Austin Chronicle can find it on Tubi.

Dolls

Stuck

In Gordon’s last movie, made in 2007, he had American Beauty’s Mena Suvari play a woman who hit a man with her car. When he becomes embedded in her windshield, she makes a series of bad decisions that turned Stuck into a cult classic—one that, unbelievably, is based on a true story.

If that sounds like your sort of film, you can see it now on IMDB TV, Shudder and UMC.

The Pit and the Pendulum

As well as adapting Lovecraft, Gordon also brought the stories of Edgar Allan Poe to TV, film and stage. In 1991, for example, he adapted the seminal short story The Pit and the Pendulum (not to be confused with the Vincent Price-starring 1961 version) into a movie starring Aliens’ Lance Henriksen, which is streaming on Tubi now.

Honey, I Shrunk the Kids

One of Gordon’s lesser-known achievements is his work behind the scenes of beloved ’80s movie franchise Honey, I Shrunk the Kids. Though the movie, the story of which Gordon brought to Disney and which he was going to direct until he had to drop out due to illness, feels different from the splatterfests Gordon is known for, it does feature one of his favorite motifs—a scientist whose experiments go very wrong.