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October 24, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

John Carpenter: From Filmmaker to Musician

It recently made the various entertainment pages that Guillermo del Toro went on an “epic Twitter rant” about how great John Carpenter is. Basically it was one film director praising another – but the tone was around how Carpenter is often written off for working in shlock/horror/sci-fi, as if the work isn’t as important because […]
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May 20, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

John Carpenter: Lost Themes II

John Carpenter Lost Themes II Scared Bones Records The last time John Carpenter made a sequel it was Escape From L.A. and it traced around the premise of Escape from New York but was panned, it had no real feel of its own – didn’t need to happen and was a decade and a half […]
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