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John Carpenter offers an update on Halloween Kills, calls the sequel “fun, intense and brutal”

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Filmmaker John Carpenter, who returns to compose the music for Halloween Kills, has offered an update on the film’s post-production process while teasing the more violent path the sequel is taking. In an interview with IndieWire, Carpenter revealed post-production on Halloween Kills is almost fully completed, his composing work is done and teased the kill count […]

Halloween with film critic Tom Percival | The Pick of the Flicks Podcast #66

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On The Pick of the Flicks Podcast, a different guest drops in every week to chat about their favourite film. This week, film critic Tom Percival discusses John Carpenter’s early slasher classic Halloween… On this week’s episode of The Pick of the Flicks Podcast, film critic Tom Percival stops by for a chat about Halloween […]

Blu-ray Review – Big Trouble in Little China Collector’s Edition (1986)

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Big Trouble in Little China, 1986. Directed by John Carpenter. Starring Kurt Russell, Kim Cattrall, Dennis Dun, James Hong, Victor Wong, and Kate Burton. SYNOPSIS: If you’re a Big Trouble in Little China fan, you’ll want to run, not walk, to a store, online or otherwise, and snap up this jam-packed two-disc Collector’s Edition from […]

The Thing with comedian Jamie Allerton | The Pick of the Flicks Podcast #57

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On The Pick of the Flicks Podcast, a different guest drops in every week to chat about their favourite film. This week, comedian Jamie Allerton turns into a tentacle monster to discuss John Carpenter’s shape-shifting classic The Thing… On this week’s episode of The Pick of the Flicks Podcast, stand-up comedian Jamie Allerton discusses his […]

October Horrors 2019 Day 22 – The Fog (1980)

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The Fog, 1980. Directed by John Carpenter. Starring Adrienne Barbeau, Jamie Lee Curtis, Tom Atkins, Janet Leigh, and Hal Holbrook. SYNOPSIS: A small fishing town is enveloped by a mysterious fog, bringing with it the vengeful spirits of the mariners killed in a shipwreck 100 years prior. After omitting him from last year’s October Horrors, […]

Comic Book Preview – John Carpenter’s The Joker: Year of the Villain #1

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Halloween and The Thing director John Carpenter turns his hand to the Clown Prince of Crime this week as writer on Joker: Year of the Villain, and you can take a look at a preview of today’s issue here courtesy of DC Comics… In the Year of the Villain, what’s a Clown Prince of Crime […]

John Carpenter “wouldn’t count on” Halloween receiving a true ending with Halloween Ends

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Halloween creator John Carpenter has claimed he doesn’t expect the franchise to come to a true end even after the two upcoming sequels, Halloween Kills and Halloween Ends. “As long as there’s money in this, I wouldn’t count on an ending,” Carpenter stated during an appearance on a panel at the Keystone Comic Con in Philadelphia (via The […]

John Carpenter will be scoring Halloween Kills and Halloween Ends

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John Carpenter has confirmed that in addition to producing, he will be crafting the scores for the upcoming sequels Halloween Kills and Halloween Ends. In a recent interview with ComicBook.com, Carpenter stated his involvement in the two back-to-back sequels when discussing last year’s franchise relaunch. “I loved it, It was a lot of fun,” said Carpenter. “And […]

John Carpenter to write The Joker: Year of the Villain for DC

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Legendary filmmaker John Carpenter (Halloween, The Fog) is teaming up with writer Anthony Burch (Borderlands 2, League of Legends) to make their DC Universe debut with the one-shot comic The Joker: Year of the Villain, which is part of the publisher’s Year of the Villain event. “The Joker is the greatest villain in comics.  I’m […]