Films

Been listening to The Thing soundtrack all week. Haven’t watched it in a long while and have been reminiscing about seeing it in hi-def at a lovely BFI screen with about 5 other people in the audience and the (much better) sell-out screening at PCC where the original ‘rated X’ 35mm print was shown.

Planning to stay up late this weekend, see what happens…

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It's one of those films I will happily tell people is a masterpiece, then rewatch it and realise I under sold it.

Too right 🥃

An absolute fucking banger. Is it the best Carpenter film?

Halloween for me.

Settling down to a romantic movie night.
Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Netflix sequel/ reboot)

Escape from New York here. 12 year old me can't get over it!

The Thing is on the freeview horror channel tomorrow at 9pm if anyone’s interested

I couldn’t wait til the weekend…

The lighting and composition is so incredible.

Reminded how similar Hateful Eight is to this. Felt like a remake of sorts.

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That is a banger to be fair. I wish all cars came with chandeliers.

Assault on Precinct 13 is another John Carpenter banger, but often gets "overlooked" in favour of his more popular flicks.

Just don't watch the remake.

The theme tune to this is one of his best, too

Course The Thing was already a remake and Assault a kind of reboot 👨‍💻

Pig was unexpected and very enjoyable

Went to see at cinema a few weeks ago. Agree that there’s a lot of male nudity but man, I was in stitches the entire time, as was the rest of the audience. As a big Jackass fan who wasn’t old enough to see any of the other films at the cinema, the atmosphere really lived up to expectations.

Ugh. Power of the Dog. 2 hours of pedestrian cowboy Oscar bait.

I tried to watch this last night (without having read these comments). 40mins was enough for me, thank you.

...and now I've just watched The Thing for the first time. Cracker

"in the mouth of madness" and "prince of darkness" two later carpenters worth checking out - not quite up to the standard of assault/thing/escape but still decent

Prince of darkness, the thing, mountains of madness - aka the apocalypse trilogy - is a great triple bill, if you have the stamina.

Halloween is still my favourite Carpenter, but it’s so close run with The Thing that it’s like choosing which of my kids I love the most.

I think Halloween edges it because it did that thing where an artist creates a genre and perfects it at the same time. Halloween spawned so many slasher imitations, but none of them - even the genuinely good ones - lay a sharp pointy knife on the original.

carpenter is sickeningly talented really - his soundtracks (particularly assault / halloween / halloween III) are among some of the best

This is great too - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Themes

Love Prince of Darkness! Surprisingly creepy in places. Plus source of those ace samples on DJ Shadow's Changeling/Transmission 1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZJa0HkgXcY

I recently discovered that I have Entroducing on vinyl. Someone must have given it to me or I absent mindedly bought it not knowing what it was as it’s not the sort of stuff I get. Just giving it a spin now!

It's in my top ten for sure! Love it