Master of horror John Carpenter hasn’t directed a feature film since 2010’s The Ward, but in more recent years he has found himself back in the director’s chair for a few of his own music videos. One of them is a full-on tribute to Christine, and you should probably check it out. But when, if […]
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Storm King Comics is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year, and Daily Dead reports that a brand new terror tale is on the way from the John Carpenter’s Night Terrors line. The next volume in the anthology horror series is titled Usher Down, said to be a “chilling ghost story that’s set in perhaps history’s […]
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Video games may not be as well respected as other narrative artforms, but it’s only a matter of time before mainstream media begins to regard these interactive experiences with the same prestige as film and television. Fortunately, there are some artistic pioneers from other areas that have already recognized the creative potential of gaming, and […]
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Joining their recently released action figures depicting R.J. MacReady and the film’s iconic poster art, NECA has unveiled the next addition to their line of The Thing action figures. “The Thing – Dog Creature Ultimate Deluxe 7″ Scale Action Figure” recreates a gruesome sequence from John Carpenter’s 1982 classic, and it’s releasing later this year. […]
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You’ve seen John Carpenter’s Halloween countless times, but Trick or Treat Studios invites you to step inside the movie this year with Halloween, a first-of-its-kind tabletop experience. “This 1 vs Many game by renowned designer Emerson Matsuuchi is the first time the original Halloween movie has been made into its own board game,” the company […]
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Save or enslave the city… that’s up to YOU in the upcoming They Live: The Card Game, a brand new experience that’s set in the world of John Carpenter’s 1988 movie They Live. The team tells BD, “The card game is a much tighter, faster, and more intense experience in comparison to the previous board […]
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We had learned late last year that filmmaking team Radio Silence (V/H/S, Southbound, Ready or Not, Scream, Scream VI) were working on bringing Snake Plissken back to the screen for a brand new movie based on John Carpenter’s Escape from New York for 20th Century Studios, with John Carpenter himself on board as an executive […]
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We’ve reported on John Carpenter and his desire to do a film adaptation of Dead Space a couple of times already. And to stoke the rumour mill even more, Carpenter’s comments in a recent interview with Variety seem to point to the project’s existence. Just not with him. On the occasion of the horror legend’s […]
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The American Genre Film Archive, the largest non-profit genre film archive and distributor in the world, has just announced theatrical screenings of John Carpenter‘s 1976 classic Assault on Precinct 13—newly restored in 4K. “Written, directed, scored, and edited by Carpenter two years prior to Halloween, Assault on Precinct 13 combines the template of Night of […]
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We’ve been hearing about the potential return of Snake Plissken for many years now, the character of course played by Kurt Russell and introduced in John Carpenter’s Escape from New York back in 1981. Carpenter and Russell reunited for sequel Escape from LA in 1996, but we haven’t seen or heard from the one-eyed badass […]
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It’s time, Michael… to rank the Halloween franchise again. Back in 2018, your Halloweenies wrapped up their inaugural season with a whole-hearted ranking that saw them carve out the entire franchise. But that was then. This is now: Some four years later, we’ve got not one, but two more movies added to the harvest, thanks […]
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In discussions about slasher infamy, all roads lead to Haddonfield. The Halloween franchise has amassed a convoluted franchise canon since the late 1970s, filled with retcons and redos as recently as Halloween Ends — including Rob Zombie‘s universally divisive 2007 remake. Countless horror screenwriters, including Josh Stolberg (no stranger to “Revenge of the Remakes”), attempted […]
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“You will not be saved by the holy ghost. You will not be saved by the god Plutonium. In fact, YOU WILL NOT BE SAVED!” These words typed across the computer screen by a possessed grad student cut right to the heart of what makes John Carpenter’s Prince of Darkness an outlier in possession horror still to this […]
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“It all ends now.” It certainly does! Yes, folks, it’s that time of the year again, when the Halloweenies return to the streets of Haddonfield, Illinois for a little trick or treating. This time around, though, there’s a new Shape in town, one that has traded in a station wagon for a motorcycle and a […]
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It doesn’t take much to see how Dead Space was influenced by John Carpenter‘s The Thing. In fact, it’d be pretty awesome if Carpenter himself directed an adaptation of Dead Space, wouldn’t it? John Carpenter himself once again reiterated that he thinks so. In an interview with the AV Club, Carpenter briefly discusses his work […]
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