Tag: John Carpenter

They Live in the Twin Cities

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John Nada (Roddy Piper), a white adult man with a dark blonde mullet hair cut, wearing a plaid short, is looking up from his dark sunglasses. He is standing in front of a news stand.

|Lucas Vonasek| John Carpenter’s They Live (1988) begins bleakly. Train horns moan as they clatter along the rails, surveillance helicopters chop through the air above in staccato, and smog drapes a city dominated by monolithic buildings clad with corporate logos. These structures… Continue reading

Smooth Vanilla Twist with Crunchy Lead Filling: The Brutal Stakes of Assault on Precinct 13

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Three people -- a man with a rifle, a woman with a pistol, and a man wearing a prisoner's uniform -- stand in a smoky room, staring at a uniformed police officer.

|Lucas Hardwick| If you were to drive by L.A.’s Anderson Police Precinct 13 in a modern day alternate reality, you’d find a district simply known as The Precinct, vibrating with hipsters in an entirely gentrified neighborhood surrounded by condos housing Instagram influencers and artsy… Continue reading