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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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