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Halloween 40
John Carpenter’s original Halloween film splattered screens forty years ago, and I just got out of a preview screening for the new film with the same name. Carpenter’s original found the him co-writing the script, directing the picture, and writing and performing its iconic synthesizer score. In 1978, Halloween seemed wholly original with its fighting [...]
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Tagged David Gordon Green, film review, Halloween, horror, Jamie Lee Curtis, John Carpenter, slasher
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Halloween 40
So last week I posted about John Carpenter’s 70th birthday and his films like They Live and The Thing. Carpenter’s Halloween isn’t 70, but the film is celebrating its 40th birthday and the slash-terpiece will get re-booted by David Fincher this October. Despite sequels/prequels and remakes/reimaginings, nobody has been able to rekindle the magic of [...]
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Tagged 21st century, David Gordon Green, Halloween, John Carpenter, Paul Thomas Anderson, The Thing, They Live
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