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Amicus Revived, Gordon Tabbed
By James VanFleet
Jan 30, 2006, 13:53

What's Amicus?  Well, way back in the 1960's, when Hammer was dropping Frankenstein and Dracula movies like nobody's business (except Hammer's, I guess), Amicus was a rival British studio that put out movies like The House that Dripped Blood.

Although we aren't so lucky as to get a Hammer revival, this is still a good deal, and it's made better by the fact that Stuart Gordon is helming one of Amicus's first efforts: Stuck, a movie about a woman who has a truly bizarre car accident that leads to murder.  There are certainly worse ways to start off a horror studio than with a Stuart Gordon project.

Producer Robert Katz, the man behind the revamped studio, says, "Hammer was more about monsters; Amicus was more psychological stuff."  That may be, but I'm curious if Amicus is being revived because Katz hopes to pioneer new methods of horror, or if he's starting it up because everyone in the business wants horror movies right now.

Dread Central has the full story, courtesy of Variety.