In John Carpenter’s 1996 sequel Escape From L.A., there’s a scene where Kurt Russell’s character Snake Plissken has to make 10 points on a basketball court...
Hellraiser + Halloween = Helloween? Frankenstein battled the Wolf Man, the Xenomorphs fought the Predators, and Freddy duked it out with Jason, but did you know...
Halloween is over. Christmas is near. A fitting time to explore an interesting link. John Carpenter’s Halloween and Bob Clark’s Black Christmas have a good deal...
The issues that plagued the 2011 prequel to John Carpenter’s The Thing are by now well documented across the web. Long story short, Studio ADI whipped...
About a week ago, I wrote a post titled “It’s Time We Admit That Jason Voorhees is a Boring Character“, where I made the argument that...
Escape From New York is one of director John Carpenter’s finest films. It’s smart, it’s set in a great location, and it introduced the world to...
It may be November and Halloween is already past us but that doesn’t mean that our love of horror can’t carry on unburdened and certainly not...
Several years ago, EA announced that it was working with producers Marty Bowen and Wyck Godfrey to turn their sci-fi/horror video game series Dead Space into...
I have a serious bone to pick with the Halloween franchise. In 1978, John Carpenter introduced the world to Michael Myers, who was at the time...
A few months ago I watched Ghosts of Mars for the first time and mentioned that I hadn’t seen about half of legendary horror director John Carpenter’s filmography....
I could write a paragraph extolling the amazingness that is John Carpenter’s The Thing but I’m not going to because we all already know this. It’s...
Guest blog by Nathan Steinmetz (@Humanstein) Tommy Doyle: Laurie, what’s the Boogeyman? Laurie: There’s no such thing. With October 31st fast approaching, the hype and scrutiny...
It’s rather difficult to go through an October without hearing, in some way, shape, or form, about John Carpenter’s Halloween. After all, the 1978 slasher is...
Hey wait a second, is that a… face?! The word iconic can be used to describe pretty much every aspect of Halloween, from the modified Captain...
One of the greatest scenes ever in a horror film is the “blood test” sequence in John Carpenter’s The Thing. The moment is set up when...
The 2011 prequel The Thing was not exactly well received by fans of John Carpenter’s 1982 sci-fi/horror classic. While it did its best to recreate many...
John Carpeneter’s 1978 slasher Halloween is one of the greatest horror movies of all time. Shot on a shoestring budget and undeniable in its efficacy, Halloween...
Although I haven’t had cable or basic TV channels of any kind for well over two decades, I still remember clear as a bell Wilford Brimley’s...
Horror is a genre that has never had a truly terrible period or faded out of the scene, like musicals tend to do. We have fads...
John Carpenter never wanted the story of Michael Myers and Laurie Strode to continue past his seminal 1978 film, and though he did end up co-writing...
Not only is there a remake of John Carpenter’s Halloween in development, but X-Men: First Class writers Ashely Miller and Zack Stentz have been penning a...
The clowns are taking over. And John Carpenter isn’t having any of it. Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’re surely aware by now that...
Is there a better Scream Queen than Jamie Lee Curtis? While that may be a discussion for a different article, my answer is no. The 57-year-old actress...
Last year I listed off ten horror films that had the balls to kill off kids. As I mentioned in that listicle, it’s kind of a...
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