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John Carpenter’s The Thing returns to theatres for two days in June

Posted 4 years ago

A poorly reviewed box office failure when it was first released in 1982, director John Carpenter‘s The Thing has since been re-evaluated, and over the decades has become widely regarded as one of the greatest horror movies ever made. Now...

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Kurt Russell’s Snake Plissken vs Jack Burton (Big Trouble in Little China): Face-Off

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Which Kurt Russell/ John Carpenter anti-hero is better, Escape from New York's Snake Plissken or Big Trouble in Little China's Jack Burton?

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Christine (1983) – WTF Happened to this Horror Movie?

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Chris John Carpenter and Stephen King – a combination that should go together like peanut butter & jelly, but to our surprise, these two titans of horror have only ever collaborated on one feature – 1983’s Christine. An adaptation of...

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Starman (1984) Revisited: John Carpenter Movie Review

Posted 4 years ago

Chris John Carpenter has been named in conjunction with the Academy Awards twice throughout his esteemed career. The first time was early in his career when Carpenter served as co-writer, editor, and composer for the short film The Resurrection of...

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Stephen King’s Firestarter (1984) – WTF Happened to This Horror Movie?

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Cody Universal Pictures and Blumhouse Productions are bringing us a new adaptation of the Stephen King novel Firestarter (buy a copy HERE) this Friday, May 13th – and while we wait for the new movie to be released, we decided to...

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Firestarter: another track from the score composed by John Carpenter is now online

Posted 4 years ago

Coming to us from Universal Pictures and Blumhouse Productions, the new adaptation of Stephen King’s Firestarter will be reaching both theatres and the Peacock streaming service on May 13th… and I guess the streaming release is why the powers-that-be seem...

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Firestarter score composed by John Carpenter is now available for pre-order, sample track is online

Posted 4 years ago

When the trailer for the Stephen King adaptation Firestarter arrived online a couple months ago, it was revealed that the legendary John Carpenter had composed for the score for the Universal Pictures / Blumhouse Productions film. Copies of the score are now...

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WTF Happened to Escape from New York (1981)?

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Chris John Carpenter’s Escape from New York (1981) is the movie that made Kurt Russell a bad-ass. Going into this film, Russell was best known for a run of Disney films, such as The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes, The World’s...

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Escape from New York 4K UHD collector’s edition release scheduled for May

Posted 4 years ago

Scream Factory is bringing director John Carpenter‘s 1981 sci-fi action classic Escape from New York (watch it HERE) to 4K UHD for the first time in the United States and Canada on May 17th, and the company is currently accepting...

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