Tag: John Carpenter

Top 5 John Carpenter Films As Rated On Rotten Tomatoes

John Carpenter is a highly influential American film director, screenwriter, and composer, widely recognized for his ground-breaking work in the horror, science fiction, and action

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Elvis (1979) – Review

The filmography of John Carpenter may not be one that initially seems like it could be home to the legend known as Elvis Aaron Presley

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Dark Star (1974) – Review

Everybody has to start somewhere and in the case of deliriously influential film director, John Carpenter, the start was a forty minute student film made

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Village Of The Damned (1995) – Review

In 1982, John Carpenter made The Thing, arguably one of the greatest sci-fi remakes ever mounted that took both the original movie and fused it

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Someone’s Watching Me! (1978) – Review

Usually, digging up an old TV movie made by an established director is usually the act of a completist fan who wishes to finish off

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Body Bags (1993) – Review

Sometimes  work doesn’t have to be work, y’know, and it’s always nice every now and then to blow off some steam by screwing around with

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The Ward (2010) – Review

It had been about ten years since John Carpenter last directed a feature and his self-imposed retirement had been born of him finally losing his

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Memoirs Of An Invisible Man (1992) – Review

At the time it was released, virtually forgotten, 90’s sci-fi comedy Memoirs Of An Invisible Man was criticised that maybe John Carpenter wasn’t exactly the

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Prince Of Darkness (1987) – Review

John Carpenter’s always been a very meat and potatoes auteur, content to have his concepts laid out in an easy to digest way thanks to

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Ghosts Of Mars (2001) – Review

By the time the Millennium rolled around, John Carpenter had gone from a ferocious vital genre voice who always seemed tantalisingly ahead of his time

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Vampires (1998) – Review

During his heyday, genre overlord John Carpenter had an impressive talent of churning out films that were decades ahead of their time. While this often

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Starman (1984) – Review

Anyone who is familiar with the filmography of cult messiah John Carpenter will be comfortably aware of the themes that course through the various plots

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Top 5 Rankings Of The Halloween Multiverse

If 2022 is the year of the Multiverse thanks to movies like the Doctor Strange sequel and the magical Everything Everywhere All At Once, then

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Assault On Precinct 13 (1976) – Review

An inspired fusion of Rio Bravo and Night Of The The Living Dead made for as little money as possible, Assault On Precinct 13 is

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Top 5 Stealthy Slashings Of Michael Myers

It’s been a  couple of days now since the full trailer for Halloween Kills exploded out of the figurative cupboard and pinned us to the

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Big Trouble In Little China (1986) – Review

Blame ol’ Jack Burton.While it’s true that the lukewarm reception to the chilling wonders of The Thing initially soured the notoriously independent John Carpenter to

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Escape From L.A. (1996) – Review

It’s always a tough moment when you’re forced to confront the news that a beloved artist is starting to lose their touch. Whether it’s Messrs

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Escape From New York (1981) – Review

John Carpenter has always been known as a director who’s always been somewhat ahead of his time – hell, let’s be honest here, we’re only

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The Thing (1982) – Review

John Carpenter very well may be one of the beloved genre filmmakers walking this earth and after a quick glance at his filmography (especially during

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Christine (1983) – Review

In 1982 John Carpenter’s ass kicking hot streak was derailed by the deafening apathy audiences bafflingly dumped on the legitimate masterpiece in cinema that is

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