John Carpenter targets a Western
John Carpenter has been an icon in the film industry giving us many successful films such as Halloween, Escape From New York and Assault On Precinct 13. However it seems that he has always wanted to saddle up and ride off into the sunset, and is working on a project that could see him collect his spurs. “I’m right [...]
Escape from L.A. – 1996
August 31, 2011 by JT
Filed under D-F, Featured, Film Reviews
Snake Plissken is once again called in by the United States government to recover a potential doomsday device from Los Angeles, now an autonomous island where undesirables are deported. Directed: John Carpenter Stars: Kurt Russell, Steve Buscemi and Stacy Keach What we think: John Carpenter’s offering into the world of shit sequels couldn’t have been better, and this is shit [...]
John Carpenter’s The Ward – 2011
January 14, 2011 by JT
Filed under Featured, Future Films
A thriller centered on an institutionalized young woman who becomes terrorized by a ghost. Directed: John Carpenter Stars: Lyndsy Fonseca, Amber Heard and Danielle Panabaker What we think: He’s back, John Carpenter returns to his first feature in almost ten years with a simple yet (hopefully) effective ghost story. I’ve always admired Carpenter for the way he [...]
Jeremy Renner to Escape from New York
Hollywood heart throb and star of the Hurt Locker Jeremy Renner is the latest name to be attached to the Escape From New York remake. Bloody Disgusting reports that Renner is in ‘close talks’ about taking the lead in the remake, but insist that it’s in extremely early stages right now, and isn’t close to official [...]
Remaking the Horror Classics
The horror genre is one of the most successful in film today, it takes a large slice of the revenue from cinema box office to DVD and Blu-ray sales. But it is remaking the classics which is turning out to be the big money spinner, and at the same time is tainting the original films [...]
