Darren Fisher (2447 KP) rated Grindhouse Grooves Exploitation Soundtracks in YouTube Channels
Dec 18, 2020 (Updated Dec 18, 2020)
Wonderland: Alice in Poetry
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In Wonderland: Alice in Poetry you will find all the brilliant poems from Alice's Adventures in...
LeftSideCut (3778 KP) rated Assault on Precinct 13 (1976) in Movies
Jul 14, 2021
The narrative is straightforward and engaging, the villains are pretty faceless but intimidating, the action is decent, the cinematography is visually pleasing, and director John Carpenter provides yet another banging soundtrack to one of his own films.
It's a gritty and hard hitting thriller that serves as further evidence for why Carpenter is one of the greatest.
Leigh J (71 KP) rated Body Bags (1993) in Movies
Nov 18, 2019
Oh. My. Days... This Anthology is absolutely amazing! I loved every story (each one had a fantastic twist), I adored the John Carpenter moments (his moments were actually my favourite part of the Anthology) and there are some Horror-glitterati cast members who are just the Cherry on top of an ass-kicking, scream inducing Cake. It really captures the wierd and wonderful of Horror and it's one of the best Anthologies I've ever seen. I just wish it would get a decent UK release... so I could watch it everyday!!
The Holywell Dead
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1364: The plague has returned and fear fills the air as the pestilence claims its first victims in...
Awix (3310 KP) rated Village of the Damned (1995) in Movies
Nov 16, 2019
Released in 1995, this is very much The Midwich Cuckoos for the X Files generation, but ends up just another signpost marking the decline of John Carpenter as a film-maker worth paying attention to. The sad thing is that he really does seem familiar with both the original British film and the source novel (elements of the book missing from the 1960 film reappear here) and is obviously trying to do his best to honour them, but where John Wyndham is chillingly subtle and understated, John Carpenter is just walloping the audience with a succession of predictable set-piece 'shocks'. Reasonable CGI but overall it looks cheap and unconvincing; some reasonable performances from an interesting cast, but there's a limit to what they can do with such a duff script.
The Thing (1982)
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A research station in Antarctica is infiltrated by a parasitic alien lifeform that assimilates other...
The Prowler (1981)
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Bostonian916 (449 KP) rated They Live (1988) in Movies
Aug 17, 2020 (Updated Aug 17, 2020)
Roddy Piper (in arguably the role of his career) and Keith David both work tirelessly to do their part in creating an in film world where, through complete happenstance, they are gifted the ability to see the world for what it really is beyond the "truth" that is being shown to them. Both characters work feverishly to expose the wickedness of the world around them while being beat back around every bend.
All in all a very good action flick, especially given the tools available at the time to the film makers.
While John Carpenter is very widely known and revered in the industry, it is my opinion that They Live might be the most important work of his long and illustrious career. A scathing criticism of corporate and political greed and misdeeds the world over, displayed in a way that is oddly relatable over thirty years later.