B级片大师——约翰·卡朋特导演作品收藏(二) 夜雾杀机 The Fog (1980) 本片之前的文章有过介绍,100年前的北加利福尼亚的安东尼奥海滩,患有麻风病的富豪布雷克希望在此建立一个小镇,将同样患有麻风病的患者集中起来治疗。然而他的爱心并未得到应有的回报,许多觊觎布雷克财富的贪婪之徒来到这里,伺机杀害了布雷克...
General The Essentials: 7 Great John Carpenter Movies Share This week, “The Fog,” filmmakerJohn Carpenter‘s 1980 chiller about a fog that rolls into a sleepy seaside community carrying with it ghostly visitors, will be re-released on Blu-ray and DVD byShout Factory, complete with a host...
it's as if the DVD rack by the CVS register in 2007 were a streaming platform. They have every C-horror and early 2000s straight-to-video sophomoric comedy you never knew existed. If you really put some time into the search, though, you...
‘The Fog’ was a brave move on Carpenter and producer/co-writer Debra Hill’s part, following up ‘Halloween’ by mostly eschewing the slasher format (it’s interesting to note that both ‘The Shining’ and ‘Friday The 13th’ were released two months later, in May 1980) in favour of ...
The otherworldly train that is veiled in fog and spirit lights brings “the Autumn People” who march through the town slowly like a funeral dirge preparing their secret ceremonies that will summon the darkness to coax and bedevil the unsuspecting yet desperate people of Green Town who are ...
The Shining (1980) Friday the 13th (1980) The Fog (1980) An American Werewolf In London (1981) The Thing (1982) Poltergeist (1982) Gremlins (1984) A Nightmare On Elm Street (1984) Manhunter (1986) Evil Dead II (1987) Angel Heart (1987) Child's Play (1988) Misery (1990) Tremors ...
andThe Fog.But horror is not his only instrument. He also directed,Big Trouble in Little China,Starman,Escape from New York,andEscape from L.A.. However,I would count his 1982 classic,The Thing, as the film that encapsulates Carpenter’s style and ability above all his other works. This...
month of December. Nowadays, you can’t go a single day of the month without running into some channel airing something holiday related, and that’s without considering streaming/on-demand options or the really hard core folks who break out a Blu-ray, DVD, VHS or Beta tape, or LaserDisc...
Newless. Nan finds the town loaded with low-hanging fog and occupied by the reincarnation of an infamous witch burned at the stake in the 17th century. This movie is also known as City of the Dead. Released: 1960 Directed by: John Llewellyn Moxey 23 Asylum Peter Cushing, Bri...
“The British are coming,” trumpetedChariots Of Firescreenwriter Colin Welland infamously at the 1982 Oscars. In truth “the British” were already there. They’d been making movies for over a century, with plenty of stick-on masterpieces in that number. Comedies, dramas, war films, horror....