John Carpenter’s “Starman” Is Not About Aliens, It’s About the Heartbeat of the Universe
Starman reimagines the alien myth as a road movie, a love story, and a Christ-like tale of salvation, blending sci-fi with Carpenter’s unique human…
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Quantum Creeps: John Carpenter’s ‘Prince of Darkness’
John Carpenter's 'Prince of Darkness' is an often strange, sometimes terrific but in the end flawed movie that defies broad categorization in a genre…
John Carpenter’s Halloween (1978) – Review by Sean Mercer [Cinemonkey]
The essence of Halloween is a burst of violence on the part of an insane, though clever, man who is "unstoppable," ubiquitous, and virtually…
Halloween (1978) | Review by Pauline Kael
John Carpenter's HALLOWEEN is largely just a matter of the camera tracking subjectively from the mad killer’s point of view.