Dark Star
Kubrick meets Americana in John Carpenter’s first film, written by Alien scribe Dan O’Bannon, about a crew scouting colonisable planets in the 22nd century. If 2001: A Space Odyssey was […]
Tag Archives: John Carpenter
The Thing (1982)
John Carpenter’s The Thing has the same basic premise as The Thing from Another World (a very cold group of researchers discover a very deadly alien life form) but moves […]
Assault on Precinct 13
A gang storms an LA police station in this 1976 actioner, the fantastic first half-hour of which cooks up a sizzling street tension, before a little girl (Kim Richards) buys […]
Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers
The bastardisation of John Carpenter and Debra Hill’s masterpiece continues with Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers, even though he already returned in the first film. Released and set […]
Halloween & Halloween II
Halloween (1978) was not the first holiday-themed slasher movie, but its success triggered a slew of identikit festival fright flicks called things like April Fool’s Day, Silent Night Deadly Night and […]
Prince of Darkness
In the basement of an abandoned Los Angeles church, a priest (Donald Pleasence) discovers a mysterious canister full of swirling green liquid unbeknown to the Vatican (we’ve heard that one […]
Escape from New York
Not to be confused with its sequel Escape from L.A., this is Escape from New York; so good they made it twice. John Carpenter’s 1981 action/sci-fi/neo-western hybrid is set in 1997, when Manhattan has […]
They Live
John Carpenter’s 1988 sci-fi follows drifter John Nada (Roddy Piper) who, like Bono before him, finds a pair of sunglasses that makes him see everything in black and white. Continuing […]
Halloween (2018)
Just in time for 2 weeks before Halloween comes this reboot of John Carpenter’s classic slasher, set 40 years after the original. In it, Michael Myers escapes incarceration and goes […]
The Fog (1980)
When a small fishing town is attacked by vengeful ghost mariners shrouded in glowing fog, it’s up to a handful of townsfolk to thwart this malevolent cloud of seamen. John Carpenter’s […]
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