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John Carpenter's Halloween: It's a Kentucky Thing

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2008-10-03 08:54:00 by Jeremy Richey in Moon In The Gutter
...Carpenter's Halloween is to a lot of fans very much a Kentucky film I was only five years old when Halloween first hit theaters in October of 1978, so I was too young to see the film in its first run. I ended up seeing it for the first time around the age of ten courtesy of a TV broadcast and it had a huge impact on me. Never before had I...
 
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John Carpenter is Casting his New Movie!

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2008-01-18 00:00:00 by Peter Martin in Cinematical
...Carpenter's highly influential original film . Dozens of pictures borrowed the basic premise of a slasher stalking sex-crazed teens, but few ever captured the creepy atmosphere of small-town innocence overwhelmed by fear like Carpenter did. (Matt Bradshaw wrote a good Retro Cinema on the original recently Carpenter himself has been absent...
 
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The Films of John Carpenter: Dark Star (1974)

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2008-02-23 16:12:15 by Dave Becker in Row Three
...Carpenter: The Prince of Darkness by Gilles Boulenger. Essentially a series of interviews that the author conducted with the famed filmmaker, the book covers everything from earliest inspirations right up to Ghosts of Mars (which was Carpenters newest film at the time of publication). It was while reading Boulengers book that I was struck...
 
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Halloween Film Poll #2: John Carpenter 76-86 (Ten Awe-Inspiring Years)

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2008-10-05 18:25:00 by Jeremy Richey in Moon In The Gutter
...Carpenter between 1976 and 1986. With no disrespect meant for Carpenter's work before the period or since, this particular ten year run is truly awe inspiring and it is the focus of my 2nd poll here at Moon in the Gutter to celebrate the 30th anniversary of one of Carpenter's most startling creations, Halloween . So vote for as many favorites...
 
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THE THING BEHIND THE MARKETING BLUNDERS ON JOHN CARPENTER'S "THE THING"

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2008-10-31 08:15:00 by Cinema Retro in Celebrating Films of the 1960s & 1970s
...Carpenter's 1982 remake of Howard Hawks' The Thing is far superior to the original. Yes, Hawks' film was great for the 1950s, but you can't compare the genuine chills of Carpenter's version to James Arness running about in a shabby costume. Yet, Carpenter's film was a box-office disappointment. Released within weeks of Steven Spielberg's...
 
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John Carpenter working on a gangster flick?

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2008-11-19 00:15:44 by Franck Tabouring in The Screening Log
...Carpenter, and it's been way too long since we last saw something from the man on the big screen. But maybe that's about to change soon According to the folks at Chud, Carpenter is currently developing "The Prince," a script written by Jeremy Passmore and Andre Fabrizio. Passmore described it as "brutal and violent and dark at the end...
 
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Carpenter's Return

2008-01-18 05:23:00 by Dan in Exploitation Retrospect
 
...Carpenter get some love and the folks at SlashFilm have a brief little appreciation of JC's work (especially the period from ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13 to the great THEY LIVE) as an intro to news about his next project His movies poked fun at the establishment and his modus operandi wore self-reliance on its sleeve. Those synthy scores drove his...
 
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John Carpenter's The Thing Re-enacted by G.I. Joe

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2008-07-25 12:55:17 by John in SF Signal
 
...Carpenter film, The Thing And in a bit of Information Superhighway Synchronicity, along comes Topless Robot to point us to this high quality music video for the music group Zombie Zombie. It's essentially John Carpenter's The Thing Re-enacted by G.I. Joe Here it is in YouTube Quality
 
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Nicolas Cage And John Carpenter Join For Scared Straight

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2008-08-01 09:35:40 by John Campea in The Movie Blog
...Carpenter are hooking up for a new flick called Scared Straight. You know what, I like the idea for the film Straight follows a troubled youth whos sent to prison off the Scared Straight crime-prevention program, which imprisons delinquent teens for a short period in the hopes of deterring them from a life of crime. While the teen is there, a...
 
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