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Carolyn Purdy-Gordon has 6 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1980s through the 2000s.
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Of Unknown Origin
1983
Horror

A Nightmare on Elm Street
1984
Horror

Sleepaway Camp
1983
Horror

American Gothic
1987
Horror

The Hills Run Red
2009
Horror · Thriller

The Fly II
1989
Horror · Science Fiction

Deadly Friend
1986
Horror · Science Fiction

Poltergeist
1982
Horror

Conducting clandestine experiments within the morgue at Miskatonic University, scientist Herbert West reveals to a fellow graduate student his groundbreaking work concerning the re-animation of fresh corpses.
Dir. Stuart Gordon · With Jeffrey Combs, Bruce Abbott, Barbara Crampton

The Resonator, a powerful machine that can control the sixth sense, has killed its creator and sent his associate into an insane asylum. When a psychiatrist becomes determined to continue the experiment, she unwittingly opens the door to a hostile parallel universe.
Dir. Stuart Gordon · With Jeffrey Combs, Barbara Crampton, Ken Foree

A precocious girl, her nasty parents, two punk-rock losers and a weak-kneed salesman inadvertently become the guests of two ghoulish senior citizens in their dark, haunted mansion.
Dir. Stuart Gordon · With Ian Patrick Williams, Carolyn Purdy-Gordon, Carrie Lorraine

as Contessa D'Alba Molina
Set during the height of Spanish Inquisition. The beautiful and kind-hearted Maria is arrested as a witch when she inadvertently cries out in horror at the public whipping of a child. As Maria’s husband Antonio tries to save her, Torquemada, the Grand Inquisitor, determines to punish Maria with torture for the desire she inflames in him. Loosely based on Edgar Allen Poe's classic short story.
Dir. Stuart Gordon · With Lance Henriksen, Stephen Lee, William Norris
In the future, the inmates of a private underground prison are computer-controlled with cameras, dream readers, and devices that can cause pain or death. John and his illegally pregnant wife Karen are locked inside "The Fortress" but are determined to escape before the birth of their baby.
Dir. Stuart Gordon · With Christopher Lambert, Kurtwood Smith, Loryn Locklin

A young woman commits a hit-and-run, then finds her fate tied to her victim.
Dir. Stuart Gordon · With Stephen Rea, Mena Suvari, Russell Hornsby
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