Gordon: The Bush administration hates Re-Animator
Mar 28th, 2008 by Bryan White
As my wife would say, “Don’t be bitter.”
Re-Animator is a bona fide horror movie classic and its sequel, Bride of Re-Animator ain’t too shabby, either, but Beyond Re-Animator was way soft. I’m talking Sci-Fi channel on a friday night soft. The franchise shouldn’t have been a franchise and they really should have quit while they were ahead. The Gordon/Yuzna team have a stellar reputation for quality horror movies and good ideas (with a few misfires) and Gordon is flirting with crossover success on a daily basis. They really have no business sequelizing one of their better creations into the dirt.
That said, it looks as though the third Re-Animator sequel, House of Re-Animator, a not-so-subtle goof on the president and his pals is dangerously close to deep-six territory as no distros will lay a finger on it. According to Dread Central, Gordon claims that the Bush administration is still some kind of executive branch bully with the kind of clout to scare all the kids on the playground, but it seems to me that George and his surly cabinet have lost much of their roar in recent years. According to Stuart Gordon via Fango:
“We could not find funding for it; I think people are still too afraid of offending the Bush administration. I mean, here’s Re-Animator, which is a very successful franchise, but nobody wanted to do that story. People are definitely afraid. These guys are known for payback. Everyone is just counting the days until they’re out of office.”
Maybe, Stuart, but there are plenty of folks out there, many of whom have made a nice career out of laying it on the White House thick and their careers are going strong. Jon Stewart does it practically every night, I recall an episode of That’s My Bush wherein the president and cabinet take ecstasy and act the fool. I’m just pulling shit out of thin air, here, but you get my drift. It’s in my opinion that maybe House of Re-Animator was a real turd with a political message that is mere months away from being irrelevant. Maybe even the most unscrupulous distributors out there realize that no matter how much pull a movie by Stuart Gordon, starring Jeffrey Combs bearing, in part, the title Re-Animator, that come January, the target of your zombie president jokes isn’t going to be president anymore.
So to Stuart Gordon, I suggest you get your head in the game, mister. Remember when you announced that you were going to adapt to Thing On The Doorstep? Let’s get cracking, buddy!
As much as I’d like to see House of Re-Animator, I think the only way it will come to fruition is if some foreign interests fork over the cash. Hope I’m wrong, though.
Oh, that episode of That’s My Bush was terrific, as was the one with the phony execution.