This is a nice little interview with Stuart Gordon, the writer and director of Re-Animator (showing at IFS this Thursday on All Hallows' Eve). Although the camerawork is terrible, he has great things to say about making movies, the value of a good script, and how you can never lose money on a horror film if you just make it cheaply enough.
Re-Animator did well enough at the box office that director Gordon and stars Jeffrey Combs and Barbara Crampton reunited to make another Lovecraft movie--From Beyond (1986). Here's Combs talking about that experience:
Bruce Abbott was such a clean-cut dude in Re-Animator (1985):
But in the sequel Bride of Re-Animator (1989) he starts flirting with the mullet:
By the early 90s, Abbott's transformation is complete:
(For those of you with less-than-stellar German skills, that's the intro for the CBS series Dark Justice, which was part of CBS' Crimetime After Primetime slot after the 10pm news--just before the advent of late night talk shows. Interestingly, the first season was shot in Barcelona, and Abbott joined the series when production moved to Los Angeles for season two).
