Girls in
Rosemary's Baby (1968)

From Death and the Maiden to Skingoria.

Best known for his over-the-top interpretations of the work of H.P. Lovecraft, director Stuart Gordon is a legend in the horror world.

Over the past 25 years, Gordon has directed gorefests like From Beyond, Castle Freak, and Dagon, written the scripts for Honey, I Shrunk the Kids and The Dentist, and done episodes of the cable anthology series Masters of Horror.

He has also worked with mainstream actors William H. Macy, Bai Ling, Denise Richards, Mena Suvari, and Julia Stiles in the non-horror movies Edmond and Stuck.

Earlier this month, he graciously sat down and talked to MrSkin.com’s own McBeardo and Count Rackula about nudity, the state of the horror film, and Re-Animator’s most famous scene.

Read the interview after the jump.

Roman Polanski's life has, appropriately, been like something out of a movie. When he was a child, Roman's parents were sent to Nazi concentration camps and he was forced into the Krakow Ghetto. But Roman escaped and was hidden from the Nazis by a Catholic farmer who let him sleep in his barn. After the war, Roman went to film school and quickly made a name for himself as an arthouse director in Poland. In the 1960's, he went to England and made three of his most famous films, Repulsion (1965), Cul-de-Sac (1966), and The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967), where he met his future wife Sharon Tate. Then Roman moved to America and made the critically acclaimed horror movie Rosemary's Baby (1968). One year later, tragedy struck in the midst of success when Sharon Tate was murdered by the Manson family while eight months pregnant with his child. Roman continued making movies and directed his masterpiece, Chinatown, in 1976. But in 1979, Roman ran into scandal in the US when he pled guilty to unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor following an alleged champagne-and-quaalude-fueled sodomy session with 13-year old Samantha Gailey. To escape prison, the director returned to Paris, the city of his birth, and has never set foot on US soil again, not even when we won an Oscar for The Pianist (2002). But now, Samantha Gailey, his statutory rape victim, wants the whole thing over, saying of Polanski's flight from the States, "He did the right thing under the circumstances. He wasn't getting a fair shake." Roman's life has been ups and downs, but he's consistently provided us with incredible nudity in movies like Bitter Moon (1994), which features a fully nude Emmanuelle Seigner in bed with her les-be-friend Kristin Scott Thomas! When it comes to nudity, you can't keep a good Pole down!

Wherever men of ideas and action gather to exchange theories and compare experiences, the talk invariably comes around to praising those few accomplished gentlemen among us who have wallowed in the physical delights of a mother and her daughter. The notion of gaining access to the most intimate, moistest recesses of two women, one of whom has squirmed from the womb of the other, is too much for a meek-willed male to contemplate without swooning. It's a hale and brave fellow who embraces the reality of copulating with two successive generations of directly descending females.