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17/10/2022

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Halloween Ends.
 
Yes, it’s a quick non-Transformers review, for the first time in ages. Largely because I had a lot of thoughts on the latest entry in the Halloween series, especially after talking to my good friends Alex and Umar about it (whose own, more professional reviews you can read by clicking on their names).
 
I’ve also found the overall reaction pretty interesting; people seem to be pretty much divided between thinking its an absolute travesty and those who have loved it for daring to be different. It is not a film that seems to be inspiring much of a middle ground, and its hard to tell yet where the general consensus is going to settle.
 
So, after the read more break, you’re going to get my unfiltered spoiler thoughts. All after one viewing though, so maybe I’ll look back on this after the disc comes out with deep embarrassment.
 
All ready for spoilers?



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Who Goes There?

10/3/2019

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The Thing. 1982.


The second in series of requested by Ko-FI blogs comes from Kevin McCluskey, who asked me to write something on my favourite John Carpenter film.

Which is quite a challenge. Though the final choice will be kind of obvious from the title, John Carpenter is second only to Hitchcock as my favourite director of all time. That’s despite a career that has had some sever ups and down.

From a completely objective viewpoint, I think Halloween (no, not that Halloween. Or that one. The original) would probably be his masterpiece. But there’s one that, personally, does a lot more things for me.

As a kid growing up in the 80’s, the John Carpenter film I saw a lot was of course Big Trouble in Little China (I think Starman was on a fair bit as well, but that’s one I can’t remember anything about at this point), which is a tremendously fun film, but, isn’t in quite the top tier of his work. So it was the 90’s and late night screenings of various classics that really got me into his work. Especially around the time of Escape From L.A. and Halloween H20 when there was a bit of a push for video releases and channel 4 screenings. I still particularly remember the next day at school after seeing Halloween (no, not that one. Or that one) for the first time, walking through the surprisingly American style avenue behind the school with my best mate, “DA-DA-DA-DAing” the theme at full volume.

My first exposure to The Thing though didn’t come from the film. But from the first season X-Files episode Ice. Which is a completely and utterly shameless rip-off, and equally brilliant and the moment I became a massive fan of the series.

And of course, Deep Space Nine did it as well for its third season finale. As have a lot of series. Which I think is down to a combination of the film’s status having increased so much over the years to full on influential classic, and it being quite a cheap episode of TV to make (none of them go for the big monster aspect of the film) that lets often easily bored actors go all out at shouting at one another.



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