John Carpenter's best-producing achievements!
While we wait for the third season of the highly anticipated series "The Mandalorian" to arrive, we will use this time to celebrate the birthday of the iconic director, screenwriter, and composer John Howard Carpenter on our way.
While we wait for the third season of the highly anticipated series "The Mandalorian" to arrive, we will use this time to celebrate the birthday of the iconic director, screenwriter and composer John Howard Carpenter, who was born on January 16, 1948. We assume that you do not need his introduction. Instead of extracting some snippets from the director's life or interesting things from the filming of his films, this time we simply decided to put together a top list: Carpenter's best films.
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So let's start!
1. The Thing, 1982.
We really don't have anything to tell you, it's unlikely that any of you haven't watched it at least a few times. If by some miracle you haven't seen this movie, then you have to correct it immediately because you don't know to miss it. The creature is simply a fantastic adaptation of the SF novel Who Goes There? by the famous American writer and editor John W. Campbell Jr. from 1938.
2. Escape from New York, 1981.
"Escape from New York" is another iconic title by Carpenter, but the Creature still beats it by several spears. It is a dystopian futuristic action thriller that is one of the extremely successful commercial films of the 80s, which is particularly impressive because the director had to show exceptional ingenuity and ability for the sake of a small budget. It's also the movie that made Kurt Russell an action star.
3. In the Mouth of Madness, 1995.
A fantastic horror drama, intriguingly designed and with inspired production. Fans of horror, both in literature and on film, will find numerous associations in Carpenter's work with short stories and novels by one of the most famous genre writers, the father of horror HP Lovecraft and the master of horror today, Stephen King. Do you even need anything more?
4. They Live, 1988.
A title that hardly any of you haven't seen, and which definitely had to be on this list. The inspiration for the film was the short SF story Eight O'Clock in the Morning by Ray Faraday Nelson, from 1963. The film is an entertaining politically subversive blend of horror, science fiction and action. Certainly one of the best films dealing with the themes of capitalism, consumerism and greed, which has also aged wonderfully like a good wine. One of the main roles is played by Keith David.
5. Big Trouble in Little China, 1986
You may be a bit surprised by this selection, but it is a film that is extremely dynamic and very entertaining.This movie is a fantastic action comedy adventure that works almost flawlessly. With the film, Carpenter wanted to pay homage to the popular Hong Kong "martial arts", and he succeeded. This is how we got an unpretentious, witty and action-packed film that was excellently performed by Kurt Russell, Kim Cattrall and James Hong.
6. Dark Star, 1974.
Carpenter's graduation thesis, which, thanks to the ingenuity of the young director ended up in distribution and launched him among major filmmakers. A dirty, cheap, working-class sci-fi film bursting with cleverly repurposed clichés and subtly criticizing some of the commonplaces of 1970s America.
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