John Carpenter has uploaded a visualizer for his song “Revenge” from his upcoming album, Cathedral. ‘An abandoned cathedral. A gruesome murder. A powerful supernatural entity living in the catacombs. It all comes to a head in downtown Los Angeles. What will happen and who will live to tell […]
In the Mouth of Madness (1994) is the final film in what director John Carpenter calls his Apocalypse Trilogy, also including 1982’s The Thing and 1987’s Prince of Darkness, although the films aren’t joined by any conventional narrative or continuity. In casual use, apocalypse has come to mean nuclear annihilation or the end of civilization, but it literally means unveiling, and that’s what really unifies the trilogy: the revelation of an inhuman universe.
At RogerEbert.com, Walter Chaw writes a lovely essay on his personal response to John Carpenter’s Starman (1984): “John Carpenter’s Starman has lodged itself in my consciousness since I first saw it in 1984. I was eleven that Christmas, and there has not been a year in the last […]
This month our Guest Star is film presenter and bon vivant Jackie Stargrove. They write on killing the guilt in your pleasure and just loving what you love. ~~~~ “Even the worst picture is someone’s favorite film, and that someone is the fan I am always talking to.” […]
At Biff Bam Pop, friend of the Gutter Robert A. Mitchell takes a look at the devil in the machine in John Carpenter’s Christine! “In John Carpenter’s Christine (1983) based on the best-selling novel by Stephen King and working off an adapted screenplay by Bill Philips, the devil […]
Prince of Darkness (1987) is not often included among John Carpenter’s greatest films. To be fair, he has a lot of great films. The writer-director-composer-grumpy soundbite generator has clocked an embarrassment of beloved cinema in his time. Halloween (1978), Escape From New York (1981), The Thing (1982), Big […]
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