The Fog
DVD Times (Free subscription) | 20/07/2008
Blu-Ray Review: Optimum release some John Carpenter goodies on Blu-ray, and John reviews The Fog.
John Carpenter
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Vampire Pinned Under Rocks For Four Millennia, Wakes Up Pissed Off
Needcoffee.com (Free subscription) | 19/07/2008
Well, this is a new one on me--how do you keep a vampire down in its grave? Cross or crucifix? Holy water? Silver? Running water? A copy of John Carpenter's Vampires? Nope. Just big stones. That's right--they found a four-thousand year old grave in East Bohemia and within is [...]
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Stockwell to Turn 'Bad Men' into 'Sanctuary'
Cinematical (Free subscription) | 16/07/2008
Filed under: Horror , Thrillers Yeah, you know John Stockwell . Every movie nerd should. He directed Into the Blue , Turistas , Blue Crush ... OK, he played cool kid Dennis Guilder in John Carpenter's Christine . That's how most movie nerds know the guy. (He's actually been in a whole bunch of movies, like Top Gun and Losin' It and ... My Science Project .) So now it looks like Mr. Stockwell has his...
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They walk,they lie,they love,they die,they live!
Discobelle.net (Free subscription) | 16/07/2008
I just got the new single from Evil Nine in the mail and I must say that it’s the best thing I have received in the last weeks or so. The track is a tribute to director John Carpenter’s classic 1988 sci-fi ghoulfest They Live and their press release tell us: “Don’t be surprised if [...]
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Halloween 30th Anniversary Commemorative DVD Set Announced
Film Junk (Free subscription) | 15/07/2008
If you want to talk about movies that have been released on DVD way too many times to count, John Carpenter’s Halloween is right near the top of that list. Still, I suppose they wouldn’t keep re-releasing it if people didn’t keep buying it, and I’m guessing that there are plenty of people out there [...]
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Film Friday on Saturday
Blood and Guts in Blogland (Free subscription) | 12/07/2008
Oh the lateness. Jaws 2 Decent sequel where sharks once again come to munch up Roy Scheider's quiet little town in time to ruin summer and once again no one listens to him. Did they not see the original? I kinda like this poster though: Prince of Darkness John Carpenter has made some phails but this definitely isn't one of them. Donald Pleasence is on top form and 'the science bit' is creatively crazy....
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The Thing (1982)
Good News Film Reviews (Free subscription) | 09/07/2008
Should I see it? Yes. Now, this is how you "re-envision" a movie. I consider John Carpenter's reworking of the 1951 classic monster movie The Thing from Another World one of the best horror movies ever made. He remolds the story into something believable and haunting. A group of scientists working in an outpost in the South Pole are attacked by an alien that acts as a doppelgänger. The shape-shifting...
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John Carpenter's Halloween on Blu-ray Disc
BigPictureBigSound.com (Free subscription) | 06/07/2008
John Carpenter's genre defining horror film arrives on Blu-ray Disc with a controversial yet excellent video transfer, full of details never before seen on any previous edition.
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Flick Picks for the weekend of July 5-6
NY Daily News (Free subscription) | 02/07/2008
What's basically a standard B-movie slasher tale (co-scripted by frightmeister John Carpenter) receives glitzy mainstream treatment in the "Eyes of Laura Mars" (1978).
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CNN Pick Top 10 Horrific Movie Moments
FilmoFilia (Free subscription) | 28/06/2008
The CNN cable news network has chosen its top 10 most spine-tingling moments in film history. If you do or don’t agree you can also make comments on the same commentary page. [CNN] Here is the list beginning with their #1 choice. “Ring” (Hideo Nakata, 1998) “The Thing” (John Carpenter, 1982) “The Orphanage” (Juan Antonio Bayona, 2007) “Misery” (Rob Reiner,1990) “Alien” (Ridley Scott, 1979) “The Birds”...
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ON PARODY
Culture Parody Center (Free subscription) | 24/06/2008
Readers, as over the years I provided a mirror image for Dr. Fossey in which she saw a reflection of her Southern Diva personality, I realized that what real parody should do is something akin to the movements of John Carpenter’s The Thing - first it assimilates not only the movements, but also, the internal [...]
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RAY-BAN AD BLOCKERS
Filmmaker Magazine: Blog (Free subscription) | 24/06/2008
Remember that Phil Dick-ian John Carpenter movie, They Live? In it, a special pair of sunglasses allows you to see the world as it really is, with all of the government's subliminal messages exposed. I thought of that film while reading this blog post at Seeking Alpha entitled "How Video is Going to Take Over the World." It summarizes a Forrester research reporter claiming that we are entering
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Could Josh Brolin Pull Off Snake Plissken?
Cinematical (Free subscription) | 21/06/2008
Filed under: Action , RumorMonger , Remakes and Sequels I hate it when remake projects challenge your stringent loyalty and anti-remake stance. Since word first broke about a remake of John Carpenter's Escape From New York , I've been disinterested. Maybe if I ignored it, it would go away? Not quite. Gerard Butler certainly wasn't the right man for the job -- assuming that anyone could ever replace,...
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Josh Brolin is the New Snake Plissken?
Film Junk (Free subscription) | 20/06/2008
First, the bad news: it looks like that infernal remake of John Carpenter’s Escape From New York isn’t going away anytime soon. A while back, Brett Ratner had signed on to direct and Gerard Butler was attached to star, but eventually they both walked away and the project was thought to have been finished. But [...]
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Gratuitous gore sells, but it's bad filmmaking
Deseret Morning News (Free subscription) | 20/06/2008
Many years ago more than I care to admit I interviewed filmmaker John Carpenter about his then-new film "The Thing." (OK, it was 1982. Ouch!)
