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September 20, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

John Carpenter, Cody Carpenter & Daniel Davies: Halloween – Expanded Edition (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

John Carpenter, Cody Carpenter & Daniel Davies Halloween: Expanded Edition (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Sacred Bones John Carpenter’s original score for the original Halloween movie is what saved it – the low-budget movie which is legendary now for its kickstarting of a new strain of horror films and for its pioneering indie film spirit was […]

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August 15, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

John Carpenter: Anthology – Movie Themes 1974-1998

John Carpenter Anthology: Movie Themes 1974-1998 Scared Bones Records John Carpenter – like John Waters – finds himself at 70 years of age and with one of the sideline aspects of his filmmaking career now being the new main revenue stream. For Waters it’s writing and delivering his one-man-show, for Carpenter it’s music. They’re both […]

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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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February 14, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

John Carpenter: Lost Themes

John Carpenter Lost Themes Sacred Bones Records I grew up with John Carpenter’s film – exhilarating things, thrill-rides through black comedy and bad comedy and great action (and intentionally bad action) and sci-fi and horror. So often he was pulling together ideas from more than one genre, almost always his films relied, at least in […]