When your circle small but one of you is the Thing (it’s Childs).
Muahaha welcome to John Carpenter Month, we finally covered this on the pod and it was so fun to ramble about it in a way that doesn’t quite suit a Letterboxd review. A film that I think we hold dearer because it was initially so maligned, sometimes the world isn’t ready for great art but good thing it lives forever! Rob Bottin you will always be famous.
John Carpenter’s Lovecraftian Rickroll. I love this man so much, didn’t expect this to become one of my favorites from him. Every moment perfection. Nonstop dread. When does fiction become religion?
Big Trouble in Little Church
Only gets better as I think on it more and read up on it. Absolutely haunting, and humbling - there’s a lot here that is bigger than you can take away after one watch. But I know this simple fact - working with Dennis Dun is one of the best things John Carpenter ever did
I guess John Carpenter thinks this is better than Escape from New York and I’m going to have to disagree with him, but I see why he thinks that. This is a good movie, and has just as much biting satire. It’s just lacking the ubiquitous novelty that makes the first one so iconic and there’s not much you can do about that. I wonder what someone would think of this if they hadn’t seen Escape from New York prior, then.…
“Has it ever occurred to you that part of being a parent is trying to kill your kids?”
Easily the best movie I’ve seen about a car going on a killing spree. I can totally see why this is one of Stephen King’s favorite adaptations. It’s rad. Carpenter adds enough flair (the anamorphic is a sick touch) to create the proper atmosphere, but not so much that it overpowers the story. It’s contained, campy, surprisingly creepy and frequently chuckle-inducing. Carpenter’s…
“This is just so shocking. I mean I must just be so monumentally naive!”
“You are.”
A kaleidoscopic adventure (starring now Hollywood Walk of Fame member James Hong!) through Little China that never lets up on monsters and magic! This is probably the most detailed and visually exciting work I’ve seen from Carpenter so far, with the added bonus of epic martial arts and delightfully corny dialogue/performances. Also frequently hilarious. I am solidly biased towards Carpenter now, but this is just incredibly my thing and I had a blast. I will sleep well this week knowing I don’t have green eyes
I came here to chew bubblegum and watch John Carpenter movies. And I’m all out of bubblegum.
Happy belated birthday John Carpenter! I’m still very early in my exploration of this legend’s filmography but I fall more and more in love with his work with each film. His humility and pure rebellious nature is clearly what makes him so effortlessly cool. The anti-authority messaging in his films is unapologetic and it’s the bluntness of his metaphors that has defined his…
“What’s wrong with Broadway?”
HELL. FUCKING. YES. I’m so tempted to upgrade to Patron right now just so I can have Snake Plissken at the top of my review.
Plissken is a former Special Forces officer turned criminal who is offered a clean record in exchange for extracting the president from Manhattan. Unfortunately, in this 1997 dystopia, the entire island of Manhattan is a maximum security prison where factions of disheveled inmates haunt the fiery city ruins.
John Carpenter is quickly…
Sci fi horror at its finest. The paranoia. Self preservation and mutually assured destruction. The blood scene… creature design…. practical effects….. just yes. You can feel how groundbreaking this must have been when it came out, and it aged like Paul Rudd. Everyone in that camp except for like three of them had so much swag. And how tf did they get that dog to do all that