Is There A Stuart Gordon School Of Cinema Ghoulitry

• Chastity Bites

Even though the Reader‘s Drew Hunt just put Re-Animator (1985) at the top of his list of Stuart Gordon movies, in my view he sells it—and Gordon—a little short. “In some circles, [Gordon’s] downright reviled,” notes Hunt, and reminds us that Dave Kehr wrote in these pages that Re-Animator was the “kind of flat-footed stuff that gives garbage a bad name.”

No one recognizes the terrible danger but a plucky young reporter on the school paper. Just before the final showdown, and not simply to be on the safe side, she calls up a guy she knows and gets laid.