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First stills from Carpenter's MASTERS OF HORROR episode hit with a bloody SPLAT!
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here with some awesome gore pics from John Carpenter's comeback to the bloody world of horror with his MOH segment called Cigarette Burns, written by a couple of Hollywood douchebags named Scotty Swan and Drew Queeny or something like that.
These pics make my mouth water. Carpenter had a run like no one else in the genre. He had, like, 10 films in a row that ruled... from ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13 through HALLOWEEN, PRINCE OF DARKNESS, THE FOG, BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA, THEY LIVE, ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK, STARMAN and THE THING. I also quite like IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS. His only real failure in my eyes is GHOSTS OF MARS. I want nothing more than to see Carpenter start another run like he had in the late '70s and '80s.
Before the really badass pics, I also have other MOH news. It premieres at the end of October with Don Coscarelli's second Joe R. Lansdale adaptation INCIDENT ON AND OFF A MOUNTAIN ROAD. I spent a few days on this set, so look for my set report on that soon. Anyway, enjoy the pics! I loveses them!
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maybe it's just not my cup of whatever. that cryptkeeper show was dopey. heads getting cut off--okay, well, that's fine. maybe it's like sci-fi: you're either into watching spaceships or you're not. i think i'm not into "gore and greepy angels".
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but they're stills, one can't judge a motion picture based on a couple frames
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the talkbacks lately haven't been as busy as in the past? I'm posting over an hour after the last poster and there are only three posts here including mine. hmm...
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being the writers of the damn thing, they'd have more "scoops" on this particular title.
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I don't know, the stills look fairly interesting. Hopefully these horror thingees are good.
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I thought it was McWeeney. Not that there's anything wrong with that. Heads getting ripped off = goodness.
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Sep 13, 2005 9:52:01 PM CDT
Village of the Damned , Escape from L.A, Vampires , Ghosts of Ma
by monkeybrains
All examples of what happens when you sell your soul to the devil, and he calls in his marker after 8 years
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It always does.
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...but have any of these filmmakers actually committed anything to celuloid that was worth a darn in over 20 years? I don't think I own anything in my dvd collection from these guys that's past their heyday. Tenebre was interesting but Argento's high water mark is Suspiria. Carpenter gave up after Big Trouble. Landis lost his edge after Morrow lost his head. Hooper shot his wad with the original Chainsaw (he was hardly in charge of Poltergeist). Coscarelli? Come on, Bubba Ho Tep is cute, but he's not a great filmmaker. Geeks watch Beastmaster for Sheena's breasts.
But to each his own. I already posted on another topic about people's various tastes. I hope the fans at least get their moneys worth. -
In The Mouth Of Madness was the last good John Carpenter movie. Why watch Beastmaster for Sheena's breasts when you can watch Sheena for Sheena's breasts? Carpenter had it, but lost it.
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Sep 14, 2005 8:36:56 AM CDT
Hey- cool- did you see the tied-up guy getting his head cut off?
by stan the bat
Just like in real life! That was cool. What's the appeal of lame shit like that again?
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Just watched this motherfucker for the first time and it FUCKING RULES!!! By far Carpenter`s best. "I came to kick ass and chew bubblegum. And I`m all out of bubblegum!" Damn, CLASSIC! And the social commentary is also dead-on.
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Although it took a while to get rolling, They Live does rank as one of John's best. Certainly his most political film, no doubt. Nice fight sequence with Roddy Piper & Keith David ( or is it David Keith - damn I get that mixed up sometimes) "Life is a bitch, and she's back in heat". And the Dan Quayle swipe was priceless. But. For me, John's best is still The Thing, although some of the special effects do't hold up well ( obvious rubber head effects, for example). Wish they could go in and clean them up with a CGI scrubbing. Clearly Hollywood thinks there's something there, as they keep greenlighting remakes of John's work. Its a pity they wouldn't properly finance the originals, making the remakes, if they weren't already, unnecessary.
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These AICN never cease self-promoting. Looks pretty derivative to me.
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It's almost annoying as "They rape my childhood" and "Fox canceled Firefly, but...!" :P
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Langhaariger, wie schaut`s? Lang nix mehr von Dir gelesen...
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Sep 14, 2005 2:21:58 PM CDT
So many of his flicks have potential in the early going, only to
by chickychow
They Live, Prince of Darkness, In the Mouth... all begin interestingly, but they just get dopier and dopier until you're just like, "Ugh, whatever. Guess its only good for camp value." Personally, The Fog is my favorite. It's the one that creeped me out the most as a kid and has held up (reasonably) well. Halloween and The Thing are pretty good, but I've never been a huge fan of either. The rest, well, you know the rest (oh and never, ever was a Big Trouble fan. Sue me)
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At least he got to take his frustration out on someone for our entertainment though:)
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...and I'm addicted to Carpenter. I like almost anything he does better than almost anything anyone else does. I'm ashamed of it. I've tried to quit. But I'd still rather watch 'Ghosts of Mars' than Star Wars or Citizen Kane. I hide it pretty well; my friends and family don't even know. But I know, and it's tearing me up inside. Help me, Dr Phil! Oh wait, wrong website. Never mind.
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We will all be forced to stand next to all the steaming turds we shat during our entire life. Carpenter will have to stand next to his movies which will be even worse.
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Hatte gerade eine Blasenspiegelung und mein Schwanz tut h
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Mann, bin ich froh, dass das MIR nicht passiert ist! Aber lassen wir die Amis mal "back on topic" gehen und
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DerLanghaarige just had a great fucking idea for a MASTERS OF HORROR episode that would whup John Carpenter`s ass! A story about a guy who has a bladder infection and whose cock hurts so much while pissing, that he starts to have visions of the dead! American TV should employ more German writers.
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Sep 15, 2005 5:46:32 PM CDT
Billy, if you prefer Ghosts of Mars to Citizen Kane, then your f
by chickychow
I mean, I'm no snob, I loves me some cheesy flicks, but if you're serious you need a film education, yo. "Ghosts" is just about the worst you can do, not only in Carpenter terms, but in film in general.
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