John Carpenter may have retired from directing, but his influence lives on through a collection of unexpected auteurs ...
Though it came after his wonderfully loopy Dan O’Bannon collaboration Dark Star, John Carpenter the auteur made a proper debut with 1976’s Assault On Precinct 13—a taut, gritty thriller that ...
Though one has to be at the middle and, fortunately for the audience, that individual is Kurt Russell’s R.J. MacReady, one of the most likable characters to ever appear in a Carpenter film.
While John Carpenter has been all but absent from the horror scene since 2010 (The Ward, please check it out), he has been dabbling behind the scenes still. His score for the latest trilogy of ...