Assault on Precinct 13

I wasn’t planning on doing another one of these again so soon, but it’s New Year’s Eve so what better movie to bring up than Assault on Precinct 13?

Assault on Precinct 13 is a remake...

  #9 in my ranking of John Carpenter’s films.

  Well, John Carpenter really loved Howard...

Lifestyle I knew things were bad when, a few years ago, I actually found myself missing the Seventies.Many, many American movies made during the Seventies share one overarching theme:America is falling...

"Claustrophobic Police Standoff, but They’re the Bad Guys"Content: -3 Excessive sex, violence, immorality, and/or worldview problems. (Sometimes excessive content such as violence is in otherwise...

“John Carpenter’s Ghosts of Mars” is nutty from the very start.

Only a few seconds into the movie and we’re hit with a slew of title cards, all of which come and go too quickly and drop the following...

LOCK DOWN MOVIE: SIEGE OF JADOTVILLE (2016)

  While Zulu (1964) and Assault on Precinct 13 (1976) are often...

Joe Begos’s VFW is a satisfying action-horror exploitation homage to the work of John Carpenter and bears an undisguised resemblance to that director’s excellent Assault on Precinct 13 (1976)....

John Carpenter’s uncommonly beautiful 1980 horror film, “The Fog,” remains an underrated showcase for the clever, ambitious filmmaker.

Carpenter, whose work is steeped in...

Perkins' 14 happens to be an enriched film experience by comparison and probably one of the few "good" After Dark Horrorfest films in exis

Village of the Damned (1995)

Germanicus Fink, also known as Son of Europe and Mr. Weedwacker, recently saw John Carpenter’s version of Village of the Damned (1995) and gave the following interpretation...