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The Late George Wendt delivered a chilling villain turn in friend and collaborator Stuart Gordon's Grim Neo-Noir The King of the Ants

The Late George Wendt delivered a chilling villain turn in friend and collaborator Stuart Gordon's Grim Neo-Noir The King of the Ants

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The Late George Wendt delivered a chilling villain turn in friend and collaborator Stuart Gordon's Grim Neo-Noir The King of the Ants
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Theater provocateur turned horror auteur Stuart Gordon earned the title of Frightmaster, but he ended his career as a film director with a trilogy of tough Neo-Noirs about desperate strivers and the horror of the human condition. 2003’s King of the Ants, the 2005 David Mamet adaptation Edmond, and 2007’s Stuck are all horror films in an abstract.

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