The thing about ‘The Thing’ is that it’s one of the best American movies ever made. Continue reading
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SXSW ’22 Coverage Round-Up
Old lightning wit strikes again. Continue reading
“Bacurau Is The Best John Carpenter Movie Carpenter Didn’t Actually Make”
If John Carpenter ever sees this movie, he will have to watch it through the tears in his eyes. Continue reading
“The Peculiar Horrors of New England”
New England is indeed a peculiar place, but your place would be peculiar, too, if it was built on some of the oldest bones buried in this country we call the United States of the Americas. Continue reading
“Would ‘Halloween’ Be Revered If It Were Released Today?”
Upfront: Questions like these, at face value, don’t have good answers, because we can never know with 100% certainty what those answers might be. That said, I think horror, at least “horror” that does not satisfy the genre’s growing prestige among critics and check respectability boxes, is on a sort of decline among tastemakers, and … Continue reading
Review: The Ward, 2011, dir. John Carpenter
More than fear, the great takeaway of The Ward is disbelief. How could the man responsible for 1982’s masterwork The Thing have it in him to churn out something so horrid as this? It’s hard to see anything of the John Carpenter of twenty-nine years ago in his latest offering, the first cinematic effort he’s made in a … Continue reading
Playing Detective In Carpenter’s “The Thing”
(Author’s foreword: The following essay draws inspiration from Rob Ager’s excellent two-part series on Youtube regarding Childs’ status at the end of John Carpenter’s The Thing. The two clips can be found here and here. My intention as author of this piece is to argue for the film’s place in overarching cinematic canon, and to … Continue reading
A Constant Visual Feast 