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John Carpenter has made some of the most highly regarded films of all time. Certain films, like Halloween, The Fog and Christine will forever be included in the more positive sections of most self respecting horror fan’s DVD collections. The first of two Carpenter films to appear on this list is also among the finest work he has ever produced, [...]
On this day in horror…
1961. Director Timur Bekmambetov is born. Currently Hollywood hot property, Bekmambetov has directed Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter, the big screen adaptation of Mark Millar’s Wanted; and awesome Russian films Night Watch and Day Watch.
1976 sees the US theatrical release of The Omen. Based on the David Seltzer novel of the same [...]
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1956. Keith David is born. Multi-award winning actor David has contributed to the horror genre through roles in such films as: They Live, Pitch Black, Coraline, The Grave and perhaps most memorably for me, as Childs in John Carpenter’s The Thing.
1964. Sean Pertwee is born. Pertwee has been a staple of [...]
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1939 sees the birth of Francis Ford Coppola. Famous for such films as The Godfather trilogy, Apocalypse Now and Rumble Fish; Coppola has contributed to the genre through helming such films as: Dementia 13, Twixt and 1992′s Dracula starring Gary Oldman and Anthony Hopkins. Coppola has also acted as executive producer [...]
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1929. Richard Dysart is born. Dysart has starred in genre films such as: Prophecy, The Terminal Man, Spawn 3 and will be known to most genre fans from his turn in John Carpenter’s The Thing.
1957. Paul Reiser is born. Known to TV viewers of a certain vintage from his roles in [...]
Lists are important. Real men are defined by lists and I cannot emphasise that enough. Lists exist to bring order to the world as well as setting the bar for what every might follow. With films, lists are a means to explore the true quality found in film-making and the worst crud available.
Sci-fi and horror have [...]
On this day in horror…
1943 sees the theatrical release of RKO’s I Walked With A Zombie. At the time, the film was widely criticised for being dull but more recent reviewers have commen ted on its intentional ambiguity and whether or not the explanation for the events depicted are mundane or in fact supernatural.
1951. Versatile [...]
WINNER – Martin Quinn, Glasgow
To celebrate the birthday of The Thing director John Carpenter, we thought another little competition was in order.
Courtesy of our friends at LastExitToNowhere.com, we have a t-shirt (large only) that pays homage to “Antarctica Outpost 31″, from Carpenter’s 1982 sci-fi horror classic, THE THING.
Oh and as we are so good to [...]
The Thing that should not be….
Remakes, sequels and prequels, the dreaded prospect of living up to expectations, a director’s nightmare I imagine. The Thing is not a remake but a prequel to John Carpenter’s 1982 film of the same name (which was actually a remake of The Thing from Another World). I have surmised that [...]
I have said it before but John Carpenter’s The Thing WAS a revelation to me…
Blending a fantastic ensemble cast with perfectly balanced suspense and some of the best practical visual effects I have ever seen, The Thing was, and is, a true action horror classic. Next month, the prequel to The Thing, cleverly titled The Thing, touches down in [...]
