John Carpenter Week: Escape from New York: the Board Game?!

With the proliferation of the Internet and the rise in popularity of eBay, little curiosities like this are much more accessible. Back in the day, a board game was released for Escape from New York! Looking at the rules the gameplay seems pretty basic and I don't know how much fun it would be to play it but still, for any obsessive collector this is a must have item. Here is a description of the game followed by some pictures of it.

"'Snake, I thought you were dead!' This modest board game, based on the John Carpenter movie, casts each player as Snake Plissken, an ex-con sent on a rescue mission into a giant prison once known as New York City. Players begin with weapons and equipment cards used to help fight enemies and find clues. Cards can be lost in fights or gained at landmark spaces. Turn in matching clue cards at the corresponding location to rescue the president or his important tape. To escape, you still need to find a glider or a map to the mine fields.


Fans of the movie will enjoy the chance to encounter Slag, Brain, Cabbie, Maggie, the Duke, and Romero with the opporutnity to gain them as allies during the game. Players win by obtaining the Tape first and foremost, failing that - the President himself. The game is very faithful to the movie and players will find that they can mirror many scenes of the movie in the game."

John Carpenter Week: Contributions - Wednesday, October 6

Here is the latest round of contributions from around the blogosphere. This page will be updated throughout the day so check back often.

"If THE THING and HALLOWEEN are the Superbowls of Carpenter movies, then ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK is kinda like the All-Star Game. First and foremost is the presence of Carpenter's frequent collaborator (and friend) Kurt Russell as the iconic, eye patch-wearing Snake Plissken."
- Escape from New York - The Death Rattle

"As disinterested as Carpenter seemed in his post In The Mouth Of Madness films (I may not like that title but he is trying.) is how engaged he seems by Cigarette Burns. Though the film’s scale is small, it wrings the maximum amount of tension from its set ups, and through it’s subtle use of location (including somewhat brilliantly shooting Vancouver as Vancouver), manages to give the production a much larger sense of scale then it actually has."
- 31 Days of Horror: Day 6: Cigarette Burns - Things That Don't Suck

"On the 17th, the rest of the actors arrived- familiar faces like Buck Flower, Peter Jason, Tom Atkins. Unfortunately, a few of the former principals were unavailable- Jamie Lee Curtis was off shooting pick-ups for FOREVER YOUNG, and Adrienne Barbeau was caught up in a miniseries called THE BURDEN OF PROOF, but on such short notice, John considered that it was to be expected. The most notable newcomer was the actor playing 'Blake.' The original Blake, of course, had been obscured by makeup and shadow and was played by special effects artist Rob Bottin."
- John Carpenter Fanfiction: CARPY & THE CAP'N- PART 2: Return to Point Reyes - Junta Juleil's Culture Shock

John Carpenter Week: Contributions - Tuesday, October 5

A new day and a new batch of superb contributions from around the blogosphere. This page will be updated throughout the day so check back often.

 
"Ladies and gentlemen, 600 words into this review I’m here to tell you that ‘Vampires’ – while not perfect – is still a decent chunk of red-blooded entertainment, nicely shot, peppered with jet black humour and boasting two stand-out set-pieces dragged out to squirmily tense effect."
- Vampires - The Agitation of the Mind
 
 
"In the cool night air, the silhouettes of three men descended an otherwise deserted staircase. The red carpet which lined the steps was sullied by discarded ticket stubs and little flecks of popcorn. The steps led away from a walkway which in turn led away from a picturesque movie house, decorated in a grand style rarely seen since the heyday of the nickelodeons. Lights were systematically shut down by unseen hands, and finally even the lamps which illuminated the marquee were switched off. Before the neon dimmed, the chipped red plastic lettering on the marquee could be seen to report "MEMOIRS OF AN INVISIBLE MAN.""
- John Carpenter Fanfiction: CARPY & THE CAP'N- PART 1 - Junta Juleil's Culture Shock
 
 
"Carpenter agreed to the challenge and, turning to his muse (and girlfriend at the time), Debra Hill, hammered out a script together for The Babysitter Murders, with Hill concentrating on the teenage protagonists while Carpenter focused on the psycho and the kooky doctor trying to rein him back in. Here, Yablans stepped in again and suggested that they set the tale around Halloween, and even co-opted the holiday for the title. And with that in mind, the script galvanized itself with several more elements about evil's durability, terrible family (and community) secrets best forgotten reasserting themselves and coming home to roost with a vengeance, and some old fashioned carnival spook-show thrills, where there's always something lurking in the shadows around the next turn, waiting to jump out and say "boo.""
- Evil Cannot Die -- It'll Just Scare the Seeds out of Your Pumpkin: John Carpenter's Halloween (1978) - Scenes from the Morgue: Retro-Pulp Movie Ads
 
 
"No. This wasn't any kind of old school biblical dread that I felt that night, but ghosts. Ghosts of the unsettled dead, who linger, fed by a need for vengeance, and walk the earth until their untimely and unjust deaths are avenged ... That's right, in the middle of nowhere, and several time zones removed from any major body of water, I was worried that Captain Blake and his men were out there, somewhere, waiting for me to turn my back to his best advantage. So, yeah, you could say John Carpenter's The Fog made a helluva impression on me, too."
- Trailer Park: What You Can't See Might Kill You: John Carpenter's The Fog (1980) - 3B Theater: Micro-Brewed Reviews.
 
 
"James Woods brings the full brunt of his skeevy charm to the role of Jack Crow, vampire hunter extraordinaire. But he’s dragged down by his partner, played by one of the lesser Baldwins, who’s what we refer to as a drag on the ticket. And Sheryl Lee who spends the majority of her time looking utterly befuddled. Together, they participate in one of the least engaging perfunctory romances in recent memory. They stop the film dead whenever they appear onscreen. Which is with unfortunate regularity."
- 31 Days of Horror: Day 5: Vampires - Things That Don't Suck
 
 
"Hollywood no longer takes risks like having an all male cast, unless the film is Oscar bait. While it has no basis in fact- women served in Antarctica since the '60s- it makes for a tight screenplay that can safely ignore romantic subplots. Unless you think Blair and Doc Copper were a secret couple. Maybe that's what Doc's nose ring signified? That's a nice little touch that we notice again now that big screen TVs and HD transfers are commonplace, that Doc has a nose ring, very uncommon in the '80s, showing him to be a bit of an odd character like his compatriots."
- the thing about The Thing - Pluck You, Too!!!
 
 

John Carpenter Week: Contributions - Monday, October 4

Every day I will post links to contributions from bloggers participating in my John Carpenter Week. Please check them out and support all of their hard work. This page will be updated throughout the day so check back often.

"So there I was. . .DVRing Village of the Damned which, fatefully, had decided to be on HBO at 3:15 am one morning and deciding, against the power of the negative masses, that I would DEFEND IT and, above all else, LOVE IT! I mean, all of us usually go into movies with expectations and, at least in my black hearted, pessimistic world, go in expecting absolute suckitude. So why not flip the switch. Why not be a Positive, uh, Pete rather then a Debbie Downer, ya know? So, god damn it, I decided to watch god damn Village of the God Damned and god damn love it. Okay!?"
- John Carpenter's Village of the Damned - Secure Immaturity


"The great pleasure of the ghost story is the simple act of telling, or being told, one. Storytelling, around a glowing fire at night, is one of man’s oldest activities. Few movies convey that simple pleasure, and no movie has done a better job than The Fog. Dear old John Houseman, who would tell more ghost stories the following year in the aptly titled Ghost Story, has the kind of tranquil, seasoned voice that could make any story come alive. He certainly does this one justice, even going so far as to make us jump with his fob watch."
- Favourite Movie Scenes: The Fog - Blah! Movie Edition


"The greatest difference between the two Things is their monsters: Hawks has James Arness in pretty scary alien makeup; Carpenter has a series of icky, protean critters that turn into other critters. Here’s my proposal: the ’82 monster resembles Lovecraft’s “Shoggoths,” which also imitate other life forms. When the protagonist encounters one, he describes it as “a shapeless congeries of protoplasmic bubbles, faintly self-luminous, and with myriads of temporary eyes forming and un-forming as pustules of greenish light.” These same threateningly amorphous qualities are present in Carpenter’s thing."
- hawks/carpenter/lovecraft - Pussy Goes Grrr


"C’mon seriously. Do I really need to tell you? More so then any of his films aside from Halloween, to cross over. It’s one of those movies everyone knows, even those who haven’t seen it. And while that isn’t solely because of the film alone (Shepard Fairey owes John Carpenter a fucking Coke that’s all I’m saying) that doesn’t change the fact that They Live is a film that relentlessly, primally works."
- 31 Days of Horror: Day 3: They Live - Things That Don't Suck


"Still, I wasn't about to leave my seat. The vibe of us all watching Snake Plissken again, together in a darkened movie palace, overcame any projection shortcoming. For me, anyways.


Easily, the biggest draw for the evening was John Carpenter making his way to the front of the Egyptian Theatre after New York's end credits finished."
- Celebrating the Escape Artist - John Carpenter - Lazy Thoughts from a Boomer
 

John Carpenter Week: The Fog

“It was very shocking to go from a movie that was as easy to make as Halloween to a movie that seemed to be simple on the surface when you read it and that was in the end a much more difficult film to pull off. It was quite a humbling experience.” – John Carpenter

After the phenomenal success of Halloween (1978), there was a lot of speculation as to what John Carpenter would do next. A sequel? Another slasher film? He confounded all expectations by working in television on a movie-of-the-week entitled, Someone’s Watching Me! (1978), and a mini-series biopic (1979) about Elvis Presley, starring a then-up-and-coming Kurt Russell. His next proper feature film would be an atmospheric ghost story entitled, The Fog (1980). At the time, it was considered an odd choice for Carpenter as that particular sub-genre was not all that popular or commercially successful. After all the good will he enjoyed with the underdog status of Halloween, the knives were out when it came to The Fog as he faced criticism for conducting reshoots to add more gore. This was done reportedly because the studio was not happy with his first cut of the film. Critics savaged the end product as betraying its own logic and for not being all that scary. It underperformed at the box office, especially in comparison to Halloween. However, for me, The Fog has only improved over time, despite its flaws, and deserves to be rediscovered and reconsidered as one of Carpenter’s better films.


The film opens with a tell-me-a-scary-story prologue that Carpenter would use again in Big Trouble in Little China (1986) as an old man (John Houseman) tells a group of children about a small clipper ship known as the Elizabeth Dane that was beset by a thick fog many years ago. The ship’s crew saw a light and mistook it for a lighthouse and crashed into the rocks. All the men aboard perished. It has been said that when the fog returns to Antonio Bay, the ship’s crew will rise from the depths and will exact their revenge on the ones that led them to their deaths.


And with that appropriate mood setter, Carpenter proceeds to introduce the more significant inhabitants of the town. There’s the alcoholic pastor Father Malone (Hal Holbrook) of the local church that harbors a horrible secret. He finds the diary of his deceased grandfather with a rather ominous entry that reads, “midnight ‘til one belongs to the dead. Good Lord deliver us.” Stevie Wayne (Adrienne Barbeau) is a sexy late night disc jockey whose show runs for an hour starting at midnight, which just so happens to be the time when the fog appears and the attacks happen. There’s Dan O’Bannon (Charles Cyphers) who uses the weather reports to flirt with Stevie. They’re two disembodied voices that will probably never meet. Meanwhile, Mayor Williams (Janet Leigh) is busy organizing a celebration for the town’s centennial with the help of her assistant Sandy (Nancy Loomis). Finally, Nick Castle (Tom Atkins) picks up a female hitchhiker named Elizabeth (Jamie Lee Curtis) on the way into town.


As Antonio Bay celebrates its 100th anniversary, not so coincidentally, the fog has decided to return and with it the crew of the Elizabeth Dane. Their first victims are three fishermen on a trawler. Carpenter does his best Val Lewton imitation as he uses shadows and the darkness to create an oppressive mood of dread as the three men are quickly murdered. Nick is friends with one of the men and once he discovers their bodies, decides to look into their murders with Elizabeth in tow. The Fog actually starts off as a mystery as the protagonists try to figure out why the crew of the Elizabeth Dane have come back and what it is they want. We learn that the town was founded on greed and now the past sins of their forefathers are coming back to haunt them.

The Fog is a master class on how to create an ominous atmosphere through cinematography and musical score. Carpenter teamed up again with director of photography Dean Cundey, whom he worked with previously on Halloween. They make great use of the widescreen frame, like the shot of the camera looking down the many steps that lead to the lighthouse where Stevie broadcasts her radio show. You really get a sense of how remote the location is. There’s also a creepy shot of an overcast sky with the fog slowly encroaching on a dock in almost monochromatic colors. The fog takes on an otherworldly look thanks to a glowing effect that Carpenter employs in order to reinforce its supernatural attributes. Cundey’s lighting is particularly effective in making the fog sequences so creepy. It can’t be overstated just how important his contributions were to the films he made with Carpenter.


There are all kinds of small, but memorably unnerving moments, like the mysterious piece of driftwood that Stevie’s little boy finds and that spontaneously leaks sea water only to then burst into flames and yet shows no signs of damage. There’s a scene where an apprehensive Elizabeth is alone in a room with the corpse of one of the fishermen and we see the body stirring slightly under a white sheet in the background while she stands in the foreground unaware of what is happening. Then, Carpenter cuts to a close-up shot of a hand reaching out from under the sheet and grabbing a scalpel, all to the filmmaker’s own unsettling minimalist musical score. Another spooky moment is a shot of the fog rolling in at the beginning of night. It glows white in contrast to the red of the sky as the sun disappears for the day. Only Carpenter could make a fog bank look scary as evident from the unnecessary and bland remake that failed miserably on every level.


The cast acquits themselves admirably with Adrienne Barbeau being a real stand-out as the D.J. with a sexy voice. Much like Laurie in Halloween, Stevie Wayne is a resourceful woman and not some damsel in distress. In The Fog, it is the male characters that are ineffectual and get killed off fairly easily with the notable exception of Nick who saves Stevie’s son at one point. The town even has a female mayor! For a short while, Tom Atkins, who plays Nick, was a favorite of Carpenter’s, and he cast him as the unlikely male lead in both this film and Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982). He comes across as frumpier, less gruff version of Nick Nolte but an effective leading man nonetheless.


After the surprise success of Halloween, Carpenter and his producer and co-screenwriter Debra Hill wanted to follow it up with another horror film and were interested in doing something different – not another slasher film. In 1977, they were in England visiting Stonehenge and noticed a fog bank that “was pulsating as if something was in it,” remembered Hill. Carpenter felt like that would be an ideal situation for a ghost story. They soon began writing the screenplay and decided to explore the notion of revenge because it was usually a strong motivating factor for ghosts.

 Carpenter was inspired by E.C. Comics like Tales from the Crypt and Vault of Horror that he enjoyed in his youth and that sometimes involved rotting corpses coming back to life for revenge. The story itself was inspired by an actual incident that took place in Santa Barbara, California during the 1700 or 1800s that caused a ship to crash and only to be hijacked for its gold with the help of a fog. Both Carpenter and Hill also drew inspiration from literary sources. She was influenced by the work of Edgar Allen Poe and his knack for exploring fear of the unknown, while Carpenter was inspired by the notion of amorphous evil and “something from beyond” from the stories of H.P. Lovecraft.

Carpenter and Hill struck a two-picture deal with a small but promising company called AVCO-Embassy who gave them a $1 million budget, significantly more than what they had to work with on Halloween. Carpenter shot the film in the Point Reyes Station area of Marin County in California, which he found while driving up the coast with Hill stopping at every place that had a lighthouse. When they got to Port Reyes, saw the building and found out that it was the second foggiest point in the United States, they knew they had found their location. Carpenter found the fog very difficult to control as it was never the same from scene to scene. During many of the outdoor scenes they were unable to shoot because it was too windy. To do the indoor fog, they would tent in the entire set and make sure no air got in so it would not blow away. The production had different machines for a specific effect, like using a small, hand-held fog machine to squirt it under a door and keep it close to the floor, and large machine to cover a big area. In addition, long shots of the fog in the distance were done by combining background plates with the fog optically. Carpenter found it very time consuming getting the right color, the right density and making sure the fog wasn’t too slow or too fast.

The Elizabeth Dane ghost ship was an actual one anchored in Long Beach, California. The film’s art directors put their own sails on it and surrounded it with fog machines on boats, on the ship itself and on the dock. They also used miniatures, like the scene where Nick saves Stevie’s son at the beach house and the fog overtakes the place. The production built a miniature of the house in black on a soundstage and then had the fog come up on it in scale. The actors were then combined optically.


During the editing phase, editor Tommy Lee Wallace “didn’t have a great feeling” about the footage Carpenter had shot,” and thought that “we did okay.” Carpenter realized that the film wasn’t working and when they screened it for the studio, the executives didn’t think it was scary enough. His original concept for the film relied almost entirely on mood and atmosphere for effect but he went back and added “visceral shock” when his commercial instincts told him that something was missing. He was originally interested in doing an understated horror film with a “brooding atmospheric feel to it,” but didn’t feel like it could compete with films like Alien (1979) and Phantasm (1979). With only three months to go before it would be released, the studio gave Carpenter money to shoot additional scenes, including the title sequence, the climactic top-of-the-lighthouse sequence and reshooting the trawler deaths making them more explicit. The initial version also had a slower pace to it and so he added more energy. In addition, he re-did the sound as the original sound-effects track wasn’t very good and his score, by his own admission, “didn’t work and was very heavy-handed.”


Predictably, the knives came out when film critics came to review The Fog. Newsweek magazine’s David Ansen wrote, “But as The Fog rolls on, it dissipates its mystery, shock and credibility.” In his review for the Washington Post, Gary Arnold wrote, “an acceptable scene-setter, Carpenter reveals glaring inadequacies as a storyteller.” Roger Ebert gave the film two out of four stars but felt that the film was “made with style and energy, but it needs a better villain.” Finally, Cinefantastique magazine’s David Bartholomew wrote, “I feel a lingering disappointment in The Fog because the movie isn’t more than it is, or hasn’t broken any new ground … But as it is, The Fog is a frisky, efficient and scary movie in a genre overloaded with ineptly lifeless pictures.”

Carpenter does a good job of spacing out the attacks and spends time letting us get to know the key inhabitants of Antonio Bay so that we care about what happens to them later on. For example, there’s the recurring interludes between Dan and Stevie where they coyly flirt with each other like something out of a classic Hollywood film. The Fog is a slow burn film as it gradually builds up the tension and the scares to an exciting finale. Carpenter often likes to explore how a group deals with a threat in his films and so this one features yet another fascinating ensemble cast of characters. With this film, he has crafted quite an effective ghost story that is a triumph of mood and atmosphere. He employs every trick in the book to make the fog something to fear. This is done largely because of what exists within it – the unstoppable, vengeful ghosts of the Elizabeth Dane. They aren’t really evil per se – they exist solely to punish the town for what they did 100 years ago. They only want to right an injustice. Carpenter examines the hypocrisy of a town celebrating an anniversary based on a foundation of lies. This a theme that he would go on to explore several times, most notably in Escape from New York (1981), They Live (1988), and Vampires (1998).

SOURCES

Boulenger, Gilles. John Carpenter: The Prince of Darkness. Silman-Jones Press. 2003.

Fox, Jordan R. “Carpenter: Riding High on Horror.” Cinefantastique. Summer 1980.

Scanlon, Paul. “The Fog: A Spook Ride on Film.” Rolling Stone. June 28, 1979.

“Tales from the Mist – Inside The Fog.” Director Jeffrey Schwarz. The Fog DVD. MGM 2002.

John Carpenter Week: October 3 - 9, 2010

It is John Carpenter Week here at Radiator Heaven. Which means it is all about JC and his films, made-for-T.V. movies, etc. in honor the theatrical release of his brand new film The Ward. Throughout the week I am planning several posts on his films. I encourage you to join in on the fun either through the comments section of posting an appreciation of your own either on your own blog or hosting it here.

I've decided to organize all of the posts that I have found, either over time or that were submitted, by film. That way, you can go to a specific film and see what others thought of it. As links are submitted I will put a date in brackets next to them to connote when they have been recently added. I also plan to accept links and articles all through this week so if you are still working on something and want send me your review, by all means go right ahead. Enjoy!

I also would like to give a special mention to Piper over at the Lazy Eye Theatre blog. He organized and hosted a John Carpenter Blogathon back in 2007 that actually inspired me to do one of my own this year. Click on the above link and check out all the great contributions.

Also, you can vote for your two favorite Carpenter films at the poll located on the right side of this blog.
 

Dark Star:

 








"Dark Star" by Alex at Film Forager.
 
"In memory of that gifted architect of modern sci-fi, Dan O'Bannon" by Daily P.O.P. at The Daily P.O.P.
 

Assault on Precinct 13:

 







"Assault on Precinct 13" by Aaron at The Death Rattle.

"For Your Consideration: A Zombie Western" by Piper at Lazy Eye Theatre.

"Behind the Scenes With My Favorite Actors: Austin Stoker in John Carpenter's Assault on Precinct 13" by Jeremy Richey at Moon in the Gutter.

"Only Men Who Follow Orders" by Peter Lenihan at The Shock of Glimpsing. (added Oct. 8)
 

Halloween:









"Halloween" by Shaun Anderson at The Celluloid Highway.

"He came home 30 years ago today" by Edward Copeland at Edward Copeland on Film.

"Evil Cannot Die -- It'll Just Scare the Seeds out of Your Pumpkin: John Carpenter's Halloween (1978)" by W.B. Kelso at Scenes from the Morgue: Retro-Pulp Ads. (added Oct. 5)

"Images from My All-Time Favorite Films: John Carpenter's Halloween" by Jeremy Richey.

"Mark Kermode Interviewing John Carpenter on Halloween" by Jeremy Richey.


The Fog:










"The Fog" by Bryce Wilson at Things That Don't Suck.
 
"30th Anniversary of John Carpenter's The Fog" by John Eaves at Eavesdropping with Johnny.
 
"The Fog" by Neil Fulwood at The Agitation of the Mind.

"The Fog" by Sean Gill at Junta Juleil's Culture Shock.

"The Fog" by J.D. (added Oct. 3)

"Favourite Movie Scenes: The Fog" by Richard at Blah! Movie Edition. (added Oct. 4)

"Trailer Park: What You Can't See Might Kill You" by W.B. Kelso at 3B Theater: Micro-Brewed Reviews. (added Oct. 5)
 
"The Fog" by Colonel Mortimer at Colonel Mortimer Will Have His Revenge. (added Oct. 8)

"'Are You Weird?' The Fog" by Erich Kuersten at Acidemic - Film. (added Oct. 8)

"There's something in the fog!" by Andreas at Pussy Goes Grrr. (added Oct. 9)

Escape from New York:

 








"Escape from New York" by Alex.
 
"Nostalgia Gets Me Every Time: Escape from New York" by Scott Brothers at Catalogue of Curiosities.

"Escape from New York" by Sean Gill.

"Celebrating the Escape Artist - John Carpenter" by le0pard13 at Lazy Thoughts from a Boomer. (added Oct. 4)

"Escape from New York" by Aaron. (added Oct. 6)

"Operation Screenshot (Films of the Eighties): John Carpenter's Escape From New York" by Jeremy Richey. (added Oct. 7)

"Escape from New York: the Board Game?" by J.D. (added Oct. 7)

"Cult Movie Review: Escape from New York" by John Kenneth Muir at John Kenneth Muir's Reflections on Film/TV. (added Oct. 8)
 
The Thing:

 






"Personal Faves: The Thing" by Neil Fulwood.

"The Thing" by Sean Gill.

"hawks/carpenter/lovecraft" by Andreas. (added Oct. 4)

"the thing about The Thing" by Tommy Salami at Pluck You, Too!!! (added Oct. 5)
 
"Behind the Scenes with My Favorite Actors: Kurt Russell in The Thing" by Jeremy Richey.

"31 Days of Horror: Day 7: The Thing" by Bryce Wilson. (added Oct. 7)

"Saturday Afternoon Matinee '82" by Christian Divine at Technicolor Dreams.

"24 Frames: The Thing" by Colonel Mortimer. (added Oct. 9)

Christine:

 






"Some Things Can't Be Helped" by Mr. Peel at Mr. Peel's Sardine Liqueur.

"Christine" by Shaun Anderson.

"A jealous redhead with a big set of headlights" by Tommy Salami.

"31 Days of Horror: Day 8: Christine" by Bryce Wilson. (added Oct. 8)
 

Starman:

 









"The 25th Anniversary of John Carpenter's Starman" by John Eaves.

"Starman" by Sci-Fi Fanatic at Musings of a Sci-Fi Fanatic. (added Oct. 7)
 

Big Trouble in Little China:

  








"Big Trouble in Little China" by Bryce Wilson.
 
"Big Trouble in Little China" by Aaron.
 
"Order Out of Chaos" by Mr. Peel.

"Music Review: Big Trouble in Little China" by Sean Gill.

"Big Trouble in Little China" by Sean Gill.

"Big Trouble in Little China" by J.D.
 

Prince of Darkness:

 






"Prince of Darkness" by Francisco Gonzalez at The Film Connoisseur.
 
"Prince of Darkness" by Bryce Wilson.
 
"Not At All What We Had In Mind" by Mr. Peel.

"Prince of Darkness" by Sean Gill.

"Prince of Darkness" by J.D.

"A Real Horror Show" by Piper.

"Hello Darkness, My Old Friend" by Jeff Allard at Dinner With Max Jenke. (added Oct. 8)
 
"Prince of Darkness" by Chris Voss at Celluloid Moon. (added Oct. 8)

"Trace of Quatermass in Prince of Darkness..." by Chris Regan at Writer by Night. (added Oct. 9)

"Seven Ways to Go to Hell: The First Seven Shots of John Carpenter's Prince of Darkness" by Paul Anthony Johnson at Expressive Esoterica. (added Oct. 9)


They Live:

"They Live" by Sean Gill.

"They Live" by J.D.

"31 Days of Horror: Day 3: They Live" by Bryce Wilson. (added Oct. 4)



In the Mouth of Madness:

 






"In the Mouth of Madness" by A.J. MacReady at Horrorview.
 
"15 Anniversary of John Carpenter's In the Mouth of Madness" by John Eaves.
 
"In the Mouth of Madness" by Peter Lenihan.

"In the Mouth of Madness" by Sean Gill.

"In the Mouth of Madness" by J.D.
 

Village of the Damned:









"Village of the Damned" by Will at Secure Immaturity. (added Oct. 4)

"War Within the Mind: Two Looks at the Climax of Village of the Damned" by Chris Voss. (added Oct. 9)

Escape from L.A.:

 






"The Future Is Right Now" by Mr. Peel.

"Escape from L.A." by Sean Gill.
 

Vampires:









"Vampires" by by Neil Fulwood. (added Oct. 5)

"31 Days of Horror: Day 5: Vampires" by Bryce Wilson. (added Oct. 5)

"Vampires" by J.D. (added Oct. 8)


Ghosts of Mars:

 









"Ten Reasons Ghosts of Mars" by Erich Kuersten.
 
"Death Driving Ms. Henstridge" by Erich Kuersten.
 
"Ghost of Mars" by Aaron.

"Cult Movie Review: John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars (2001)" by John Kenneth Muir.
 

Misc.:
 
"Top Five John Carpenter Movies" by Aaron.
 
"The Best John Carpenter Themes/Soundtracks" by Chase Kahn at The Ludovico Technique.
 
"Top 10 John Carpenter Films" by Dan at Top 10 Films.
 
"The Ten best, worst, and underrated movies of John Carpenter" by Ryan Lambie at Den of Geek!

"The Resurrection of Broncho Billy" by Sean Gill.

"John Carpenter Poster Gallery" by Shaun Anderson.

"John Carpenter Fanfiction: CARPY & THE CAP'N- PART 1" by Sean Gill. (added Oct. 5)

"John Carpenter Fanfiction: CARPY & THE CAP'N- PART 2: Return to Port Reyes" by Sean Gill. (added Oct. 6)

"John Carpenter Fanfiction: CARPY & THE CAP'N- PART 3: Season of the Witch" by Sean Gill. (added Oct. 8)

"31 Days of Horror: Day 6: Cigarette Burns" by Bryce Wilson. (added Oct. 6)

"John Carpenter Q and A Day One: Argento, Laura Mars and Elvis" by Jeremy Richey.

"John Carpenter Q and A Day Two: Craven, Scar and Morricone" by Jeremy Richey.

"Works of Art - John Carpenter Film Posters" by le0pard13. (added Oct. 8)

"Cigarette Burns changed my life" by Sarah at Hold onto yr genre. (added Oct. 9)

"Music Review: WAITING OUT THE EIGHTIES: PART 1" by Sean Gill. (added Oct. 9)