Stuart Gordon likes to get a rise out of people.

And if it involves blood and guts, so much the better.

"Shocking people, I think, is something that I enjoy, " says Gordon, 60, director of the horror thriller "Stuck " being screened Saturday night at the 10th annual Wisconsin Film Festival. "I like to do things that get people ’s blood running and their hearts beating. "
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Because, the film director explains, sometimes a quickened pulse and that I-can ‘t-stand-to-look-but-I-have-to-look feeling in a darkened theater can force audiences to think once, twice and more about a theme that underlies the gruesome special effects.

It ’s a lesson he first learned while an undergraduate actor and director at UW-Madison from 1965-69. That ’s when Gordon — best-known today for his 1985 horror hit "Re-Animator " and 1987 ’s murderous "Dolls " — first egged on spectators to the point that they ‘d rise out of their seats and attack actors in a play.

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