Let's start with the bad news: The Ward, the latest work from John Carpenter, is not the comeback film for which his still-dedicated fans have been holding in their cigar smoke all these years. The New York-born auteur of some...... more »
FilmCritic entries tagged "John Carpenter"
Giving legions of struggling screenwriters one more opportunity to learn something from their role models at the top of their craft, director Peter Hanson (screenwriter, Stagehand) assembles a chat fest of interviews with the stars of the profession commiserating over...... more »
All good things deserve a documentary about them, so why not the slasher film? This Starz-produced documentary (which oddly has no director credited) gives a dutiful breakdown of the slasher flick's birth, death, rebirth, redeath, and so on until we...... more »
Vaguely supernatural thrillers were a dime a dozen in the 1970s -- this one's about a controversial photographer (Faye Dunaway) who inexplicably begins having visions where she sees through the eyes of the local serial killer. Naturally she witnesses a...... more »
It's almost understandable that John Carpenter made Halloween III without Michael Myers -- or any actual reference to the first two films. Why? Well, Mikey burned to a crisp at the end of Halloween II. And lord knows, people can't...... more »
It took three years to get it to screen, but Halloween #2 picks up immediately where Halloween #1 left off. Michael Myers chases Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) through the hospital where she has been recently interred, while Donald Pleasence...... more »
He has come here to chew bubble gum, and kick ass. And he's all out of bubble gum. 'Rowdy' Roddy Piper rules as a nameless drifter who discovers a pair of sunglasses that allow him to see The Truth: That...... more »
Curious recursive horror movie, in which mild-mannered Sam Neill is sent to investigate the disappearance of a massively famous horror author (Jürgen Prochnow). Turns out Prochnow's Sutter Cane is living in his own horrific imagination, and anyone that visits his...... more »
Pretty brilliant notion from John Carpenter: Combine scream queens Adrienne Barbeau and Jamie Lee Curtis with old-school actors like John Houseman and Hal Holbrook. Here they come together in a story about a fog that invades a seaside town, carrying...... more »
