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JOHN CARPENTER FAN CLUB

JUSTIN BENSON

THE ENDLESS, SYNCHRONIC

Obviously Carpenter's The Thing is one of the greatest films of all time. I think very few people would dispute this. Masterful dramatics aside, the technical work is still unmatched. I'm not sure those effects could even be duplicated, given the production differences of today. But beyond the obvious, if you look at They Live, Prince Of Darkness and In The Mouth Of Madness, these films are so bold in concept. Sadly, we may never see genre movies like this punk made at that scale ever again.

DAVID GORDON GREEN

HALLOWEEN (2018), HALLOWEEN KILLS

One of the things that I've become very familiar with for , is . So there's a lot of , and a lot of in . If you had asked me this three years ago, I would not have said those two movies. But my appreciation for film.

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