 In the early 1980s, Gordon went to California to pursue movie making.Like his friend and fellow filmmaker Brian Yuzna, Gordon was a fan of H. P. Lovecraft and adapted several of the author's stories for the screen, including "Re-Animator", "From Beyond", and "Dagon", as well as the "Masters of Horror" episode "Dreams in the Witch-House".He turned to the work of Edgar Allan Poe on two occasions, directing "The Pit and the Pendulum" in 1991 and "The Black Cat" for the "Masters of Horror" Showtime series in 2007.