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September 25, 2023

Monday Movie: Halloween, by Aaron Pinkston

Every Monday, we’ll highlight a piece of writing from our vaults. This review of Halloween originally ran as part of our countdown of the top 50 horror movies of all time. The film that started a long run of slasher...

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October 31, 2022

Monday Movie: Halloween, by Alexander Miller

Every Monday, we’ll highlight a piece of writing from our vaults. This review of Halloween originally ran as a Criterion Prediction. In many ways, Halloween is something of an odd duck in Carpenter’s filmography. While it’s easily his most renowned and well...

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February 20, 2020

Home Video Hovel: Big Trouble in Little China, by Tyler Smith

After a string of box office failures in the 1980s, director John Carpenter was apparently eager to cut loose. Having delivered some of the best science fiction and horror films of all time to an indifferent filmgoing public, Carpenter decided...

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October 31, 2019

Criterion Prediction #213: Halloween, by Alexander Miller

Title: Halloween Year: 1978 Director: John Carpenter Cast: Jamie-Lee Curtis, Donald Pleasence, Nancy Kyes, P.J. Soles, Nick Castle, Tony Moran Synopsis: Fifteen years after murdering his sister, the deranged Michael Meyers escapes from the sanitorium, returning to his hometown where...

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October 31, 2017

Musical Notation: John Carpenter Horror Music

In this episode, West plays music composed by filmmaker John Carpenter for three of his horror films. Music in this episode includes: “Christine Attacks (Plymouth Fury)” from Christine (1983) “Main Title Theme” from The Fog (1980) “Halloween 1978” and “Halloween...

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October 1, 2016

Home Video Hovel: John Carpenter’s The Thing, by Tyler Smith

It’s hard to know what to say about John Carpenter’s The Thing that hasn’t been said hundreds (if not thousands) of times by now. Since its release in 1982, it has become a horror staple that has spawned countless imitators,...

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October 20, 2011

62. John Carpenter

JOHN CARPENTER HALLOWEEN, THE THING, BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA, ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK One of the most important figures in modern horror and science fiction, John Carpenter made some of the most influential and copied films in the last...

Tagged: john carpenter

Monday Movie: Halloween, by Aaron Pinkston

Monday Movie: Halloween, by Alexander Miller

Home Video Hovel: Big Trouble in Little China, by Tyler Smith

Criterion Prediction #213: Halloween, by Alexander Miller

Musical Notation: John Carpenter Horror Music

Home Video Hovel: John Carpenter’s The Thing, by Tyler Smith

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