What is thr best John Carlenter movie?

The of course

THEY LIVE

Who's John Carlenter?

You’re clueless, r3, aka “typo warrior supreme”

[Quote] THEY LIVE

Why do people love that awful picture?

was Assault on Vivian Vance the straight to video scarefest with Helen Lawson as Viv?

Thr Flog is hiz best.

[quote] Assault on Vivian Vance

Otherwise known as "The Phil Ober Story."

The Thing.

It's not an awful picture. It's a masterpiece.

Slarman.

Christine should be an option

They Live is camp at its finest.

And Rowdy Roddy Piper wasn't bad to look at either.

They Live is so cringe

The Thing kind of sucks.

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"Starman" is criminally underrated.

The scene where the alien morphs into Jeff Bridges features a shot of Bridges' beautiful smooth ass, back in the day when he had a gorgeous body.

R14 = sounds like a 15-year-old girl 🙄.

Said the retard who loves that piece of utter trash — AND uses emojis in text.

R19 is the retarded opee

I'd like to see the movie he made the night he killed Bob Crane.

[silently shaking in a fit of laughter at r11's response]

R20, I take that as a badge of honor from someone who thinks a piece of dreck like “They Live” is a masterpiece.

Halloween for sure. He did so much with such a small budget and changed the horror genre in the process.

Is Starman worth watching?

Yes most definitely, r25.

R2 I love They Live, The Thing, The Fog, Escape from New York, Halloween (of course), Prince of Darkness, and In the Mouth of Madness.

R24, The Thing and Halloween are the biggest dilemma for determining which is Carpenter’s best.

As you say, he created a fabulous world and lore, and a very frightening story, with Halloween.

I have to give the edge to The Thing because it has all of the best elements of Halloween, but now with much better actors, a more elaborate set, much more terrifying effects (and most of them practical) and a more interesting story.

My favorite is oddly Prince of Darkness, though it is hardly his best.

I would say Halloween.

Halloween

Prince Of Darkness

R28 I think you’ve managed to change my mind. I’ve seen Halloween countless times but The Thing only a handful. I know I loved it but it’s been years since I’ve revisited. I’m going to rewatch this week.

The Thing is a big lumbering mess. Take away the effects and the beard and there’s not much left.

Shots fired.

The Thing still holds up extremely well. The effects look great, despite being 42 years old. And the story is excellent.

Halloween largely invented the slasher genre and changed horror forever. But it feels very of its time, so I give the advantage to The Thing.

The Fog is my favorite just for the amazing atmosphere that he created. I also think it's held up the best of all his movies.

Prince of Darkness is good, pulpy fun. It's like a high-stakes Tales From the Crypt story.

r8 sounds like a smash hit!

You did t put my personal fav in the poll ESCAPE FROM VIVIAN VANCE

The Thing followed by Big Trouble in Little China.

So what are those guys doing at that base in The Thing? Research? Mining? Are they scientists? Do they work? Are they just watching the base for the winter?

R35 If it was 'of its time' Zombie wouldn't have retold it in an ambiguous, although more modern context.

Not trying to accredit Rob Zombie with master filmmaker status; it's actually funny IMO when he went to Carpenter to get his 'blessing ' on the project, he expected John to be grateful the movie was being remade (so original), but he had a basic 'meh, and??' like response, so as to make Rob feel insulted.

Good for you! You have decided to clean the elevator.

It's a typical research station, r41. Some of the people have blue collar jobs and some are scientists/pilots/cooks

[quote]ESCAPE FROM VIVIAN VANCE

Original screenplay by Phil Ober

Does the typical research station have a bar like that? Or a pilot with a five month supply of scotch?

Here's one more vote for "They Live."

I wonder what DL would look like with those glasses on.

I love The Thing with Kurt Russell. You can really see how the Alien Franchise borrowed from it.

Alien was first!

The Thing, Starman - John Carpenter got them at their hottest, didn't he.

Alien did the working class alien monster slasher movie first, and that first one has aged better than The Thing.

The opening scene is so strange and, on reviewing it, so wonderfully creepy. Some parts later on i find less successful but it is a great movie.

Halloween is a classic but one i hardly ever revisit. It has been done to death.

The Fog is great movie as well, cresting a very tense mood with very little being shown.

Adrienne Bigboobs's lighthouse scenes in The Fog are some of my favorite horror movie scenes ever.

Escape NYC a true classic and a peek at Americas future.

“Escape NYC?” Such a great film you don’t remember the title?

My favorite of his movies was “The Frog” but it’s one of those movies where the monster is implied like in the Blare Witch Projects.

R56 the title is in the fucking heading of the thread. The informed smart members understood the shorthand. And seriously if you don’t know the title then what the fuck are you doing on this thread?

This kind of stupid chirping you do is such a waste of time and hardly interesting or funny.