Over the weekend, Dustin and I discovered we both had Stuck in our instant viewing queues, so we decided to go ahead and watch it as part of our regularly scheduled movie night. Stuck is Stuart Gordon's take on on actual events that took place in Fort Worth, Texas. After a night of partying, a nurse's aide named Chante Mallman hit a pedestrian while driving home. Instead of stopping and calling for help, she panicked and drove home with the man lodged headfirst in her windshield, bleeding profusely. She parked the car in the garage, and went inside to go to bed while the man bled to death.
This isn't the first time I've seen this particular plot dramatized. It's a favorite of crime shows; I've seen it on CSI and one of the Law & Orders. But it's a whole different beast under the directon of Stuart Gordon. He cut his teeth on H. P. Lovecraft adaptations like Re-Animator and From Beyond, and gave us the inimitable Dagon a few years back. Stuart Gordon doesn't pull punches.
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