- Horror Movie - Horror Homeroom http://www.horrorhomeroom.com/tag/john-carpenter/ Sat, 20 Jun 2020 17:45:44 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.1 A Rage-Filled Halloween for Our Time https://www.horrorhomeroom.com/a-rage-filled-halloween-for-our-time/ Sun, 21 Oct 2018 18:08:45 +0000 http://www.horrorhomeroom.com/?p=5441 From what I’d read before going in to David Gordon Green’s Halloween (2018), I was expecting a portrait of…

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]]> Interview with John Carpenter: Horror Films Reinforce Our Fear Instincts https://www.horrorhomeroom.com/interview-john-carpenter-horror-films-reinforce-fear-instincts/ Tue, 14 Nov 2017 10:57:22 +0000 http://www.horrorhomeroom.com/?p=3916 With his classic suspense film Halloween from 1978, John Carpenter launched the slasher subgenre into the mainstream. The low-budget…

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]]> Green Room and John Carpenter’s The Thing https://www.horrorhomeroom.com/green-room-john-carpenter-thing/ Tue, 20 Jun 2017 12:39:33 +0000 http://www.horrorhomeroom.com/?p=3664 There’s an interesting point of connection between John Carpenter’s The Thing (1982) and Jeremy Saulnier’s Green Room (2015), a…

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]]> Formless Horrors: John Carpenter’s The Fog (1980) https://www.horrorhomeroom.com/formless-horrors-john-carpenters-the-fog-1980/ Mon, 28 Dec 2015 19:10:15 +0000 http://www.horrorhomeroom.com/?p=2116 John Carpenter’s first three horror films—Halloween (1978), The Fog (1980), and The Thing (1982)—are not only exceptional films, but,…

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]]> Jaws, The Slasher, and the Encounter at the Heart of Horror https://www.horrorhomeroom.com/jaws-the-slasher-and-the-encounter-at-the-heart-of-horror/ Sun, 05 Jul 2015 03:32:02 +0000 http://www.horrorhomeroom.com/?p=1088 Directed by Steven Spielberg, Jaws was released on June 20, 1975, and the story of its immense critical and…

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