Horror films

Anjoel40

Anjoel40

I've never seen Elvis (or intend to), and Even Dark Star has it's (low budget) charm. He didn't really put a foot wrong until Village Of The Damned, which isn't awful but nothing was great after that, although Vampires has grown on me.
 
johnny_tsunami

johnny_tsunami

defclubmix said:
Wait. Is that the short about a cursed film or something along those lines? Cause that's stayed with me for a long time ever since I first saw it
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Yes! Very underrated I think. Takashi Mike's episode gets the most attention but Argento's Pelts and Carpenter's Cigarette Burns are rare, late-era high points for those directors. Masters of Horror was such a great concept.
 
Anjoel40

Anjoel40

With the UK 4K Boxset of The Fog we got the soundtrack as well, does the scream factory have that too? All the Special Edition 4K Carpenter Collection had the soundtracks too.
 
Pink Frost

Pink Frost

johnoclock said:
Carpenter has so many bangers. Even Christine, which was something he did as a jobber is so much fun.
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It wasn't considered good at the time (ditto Prince of Darkness) but they are both great.

In the Mouth of Madness was his last great feature film, Village is camp.

I hated Vampires, terrible characters and dialogue, and I remember is being a bit misogynist.

Oh wow, I didn't know he wrote Eyes of Laura Mars - I love that movie.
 
Beautiful Child 2

Beautiful Child 2

No one can ever tell me that Village of the Damned isn’t the most purely entertaining piece of media ever created. Kirstie Alley smoking a cigarette in a maternity ward while having a diva off with 10 kids in peroxide wigs. It’s literally heaven. And the opening half is legitimately good! Typically brilliant Carpenter scene-setting. The evocation of time and place is just so lovingly done. You can see the potential for the thing to be a great film in the traditional sense, but I wouldn’t ever trade that for the disastrous, delightful mess we ended up getting.
 
Kneehigh Girl

Kneehigh Girl

Pink Frost said:
It wasn't considered good at the time (ditto Prince of Darkness) but they are both great.

In the Mouth of Madness was his last great feature film, Village is camp.

I hated Vampires, terrible characters and dialogue, and I remember is being a bit misogynist.

Oh wow, I didn't know he wrote Eyes of Laura Mars - I love that movie.
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I still remember switching back and forth between From Dusk Till Dawn 2 and Eyes of Laura Mars on TV years and years ago. Needless to say, Eyes of Laura Mars won. There was an X-files episode just like it too.

In the Mouth of Madness is probably my least watched Carpenter-movie, largely due to my parents absolutely loathing it, so I stayed away from it. Watching for the second time a couple of weeks ago and it's genuinely good! My parents clearly don't know what they're talking about.


Big Trouble in Little China remains my favorite though.
 
4Roses

4Roses

Ghosts of Mars, now that’s cinema.

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Anjoel40

Anjoel40

Kneehigh Girl said:
Big Trouble in Little China remains my favorite though.
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I finally watched it all the way through recently and quite enjoyed it, it's not a genre I like at all though. growing up in the 80s, I would always want to get horror films from the video shop but my brothers always wanted to get martial arts. I was made to watch so many that I ended up hating them.
 
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