Tag: John Carpenter

Who Goes There?: The Thing, AI, and Isolation in the Digital Age

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|Riccardo Williams| John Carpenter’s The Thing, released in 1982, has since achieved the status of horror legend, in many ways eclipsing the book it’s based on, Who Goes There written by John W. Campbell Jr. There’s a strong argument to be made that it overtakes the previous adaptation… Continue reading

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