This man still remain one of the most iconic and important horror movie directors with an excellent career of great horror movies, I still rewatch often "Halloween", "The thing", "They live", "The fog", "In the mouth of Madness", "Vampires" & "Prince of darkness"
Both Halloween and the thing are among my top 40 of all time, love both and i think Christine is underated, the only of his movies you didn't mention, what do you think about it?
I love John Carpenter as a director. He made some of my favourite films like Assault on Precinct 13, Halloween, The Fog, Escape from New York, The Thing, Christine, Big Trouble in Little China, They Live, Prince of Darkness, In the Mouth of Madness, Village of the Damned, Escape from LA and Vampires.
I'm pretty sure that no movie before 13 showed a little girl straight up being murdered, much less right in the beginning. I remember being astounded and shocked when I first saw it as a young teen. Good memories. Fortunately, there is nothing left in the nostalgia well for the woke to tempt us with... even though they haven't gotten ANY of my money.
@@the-trustees - if you forget Fritz Lang's M in 1931 (and the 1951 remake!), 1961's MAD DOG COLL, or Lucio Fulci's 1972 DON'T TORTURE A DUCKLING (a film Carpenter said he'd seen before making AoP13).
@@the-trustees - yep, it's not graphic but it's not a cutaway, either! It's right here - ruclips.net/video/YrcQ6MiMA3o/видео.html . I scrubbed through it a few times just now, sure I'd seen it. I'd forgotten how many actors I know were in this movie - Jerry Orbach(!), Vincent Gardenia, Gene Hackman(!!!), Telly Savalas, Brooke Hayward, Leonardo Cimino.... Half the cast is better known than the star, John Davis Chandler, who's mostly known for playing slimeballs on television and in B-movies.
@@drdarkeny Sorry... No blood. No hole in clothing. No screams. It's not even close to the "in your face" graphic brutality shown in 13. I remember feeling especially horrified (I think I was 14 when it came to cable TV) that it seemed so totally unnecessary. Yes, in 1961, they were shot and killed, but it was all implied and DEFINITELY cut away after they fell. I appreciate the attempt, but you MUST see that it isn't even close. In 13 he MEANT to kill her. In 1961 they were caught in the crossfire. NO intent. Agreed? 😀
His 80s films defined my youth and created my love of horror and sci-fi. I will always love my father for letting me watch them with him well before I was old enough. These were the films I ran to the video store to rent when Halloween came each year. Classics in every sense. You can tell the magic left him in the 90s, not because he was lesser, more, the passion left and it shows in all those films. CGI and him are like oil and water. His 70s and 80s Classics are the movies I can’t wait for my kids to get old enough to watch with me. His horror is my favorite but their is something for everyone with his films. I met so many people who never saw Big Trouble In Little China and I would watch it with them in College and helped create alot of new Carpenter Fans. I called it his “Gateway Movie.” Prince of Darkness was a Halloween staple for many years, “The Demonic Thing” we called it. As always great video. Thanks for putting all those awesome memories in one place!
Agreed. I remember watching The Thing religiously every year all through the 90's and when it was almost an unknown movie at that time. I remember buying the laser disk version of The Thing thinking I would 'have this for life'. I think I paid like $70 dollars america for it at the time. Sadly it didn't have a directors audio track which so many other LD did. But I must have watched that 30 times in the span of only a few years And yea it had a bit of a following then, but most people had no idea what it was, and if they did they remembered the bad reviews it got and how it came out just after ET to bad reviews since the world as looking for light faire like ET at the time, which they were shocked by an 'monsterous alien' despite the movie being absolute brilliance, and for me wthout doubt Carpenters best. Similarly I remember watching The Fog, and people hating it, and I just couldn't believe how cool of settings he was able to conjure up for his films... Big Trouble in Little China was a cult classic I remember in the 80's loving, despite people again hating it. In my small town it was considered story telling at it's finest. Movies like The Warriors, Rambo, The Thing, etc were absolutely cinema gold back then. In my mind Carpenter is easily as important as the big film makers like Stephen Spielberg, Zumekis, etc. I worked on later Zumekis films, and despite Zumekis's later work being received well, Contact, Cast Away, etc. his later movies were no where near his earlier movies like Back To The Future, etc... So it seems that all directors have their best movies when they are younger. Even Spielberg's most influential hits were his first movies. Jaws, Indian Jones, ET, etc. His later films might have more breadth, and scope, etc. But it is his first movies that captured the imagination of the world. Similarly with Carpenter, it was his earlier simple ideas that were so perfectly executed that they felt like every word, every image in the film perfectly served the idea, such that it was crystal clear what the film was about. His later works, like other directors become to jumbled, trying too say too much. Where movies like The Thing, were so laser focused on a couple ideas, the result is, I very much agree, a perfect Film.
I absolutely love Carpenter's work, especially The Thing, Halloween, Escape From New York, Assault on precinct 13, In the mouth of madness, and They Live, all of which are classics. I almost forgot, and Big Trouble In Little China!
Big Trouble not being a hit is crazy its one of the most enjoyable movies ever made maybe because Jack Burton was kind of a jerk off people didnt get it
The fact that almost half of his work was not considered amazing when it came out is just depressing. Seriously imagine making The Thing and being hated by everyone.
Yeah so well said. We wonder wtf happened to him? Who wouldnt feel disillusioned when everybody praises him as a cinematic genius yet nobody paid to see his films 😖
Crazy to think that he scored his films. The only other director I can think of who has made music for his films is Robert Rodriguez but it was hand full of tracks and not whole film.
Carpenter remains among the top three directors of SF and Horror, especially the lo-fi and neon-drenched 80's variety. His SynthWave output is also _amazing,_ in fact he seems more committed these days to performing with his group on the synthesizer than directing. Nonetheless his influence can still be seen everywhere. For instance the brilliant 'Upgrade' to me felt exactly like a retro Carpenter film, only filmed with technology and techniques that were 30 years more advanced. I would dearly love him to have another try at independent horror or quasi-body horror/cyberpunk. A little (comparatively) money these days goes much further than it did in 1980. I think to some extent he just doesn't have same interest and drive he once did.
In The Mouth of Madness is easily one of the most horrifying films I've ever seen. I'd rate it alongside The Shining and Event Horizon as one that really left a mark on me
That "very young Kurt Russell" was already a nearly two-decade veteran by then, having been (finally!) let go by Disney. He survived the traps of child stardom (and the Disney factory) to become a popular young actor, looking to show what he could do when not asked to be cast opposite a chimpanzee or a horse.
I’m glad you revised your take on The Thing from among the best horror/sci fi films of all time, to one of the best films period. My favourite movie. I wouldn’t even say I’m a huge horror buff, but the experience of sitting at my mates place at 4am after a night clubbing and just being blown away with what I was watching.
While his movies were still fun to watch, Carpenter's late career reminds me of a fighter who stuck around for one too many fights. The effort is there, but the hunger was gone. He's stated in many interviews he was burnt out near the end of his run. But he'll still go down as one of the best in my opinion. I still hope we get to see a Dead Space movie directed by him before he's gone.
John Carpenter DVDs are so worth listening to his commentaries . Especially with Kurt Russell . Some of what they talk about is their personal lives but from time to time they do talk about how some scenes were shot . They're my favorite commentaries .
I dont feel like Escape from LA was that bad. It may have been a while since I've seen it but I remember it being fun and it had a lot of actors that seemed like they were having a really good time with the project.
It is good. People who say it's bad either never saw it, or saw it once when they were kids and just remember that bad CGI. Heck, I didn't even like it when I first saw it at 12. Now it's one of my favorite Carpenter flicks. All the actors are great, the practical effects are perfectly fine, the story is well written, and unlike EFNY, EFLA is actually an action movie from start to finish.
It’s bad in that it’s the sequel to Escape from NY, which is awesome. It really pales in comparison. I remember going to see it in a theater and being very disappointed
My wife and I actually got to see his music show when he came to Chicago. It was fun and it was incredible getting to be in the same room as this legend.
Even if he never made another movie, he has done it all and as you have already mentioned, some of his earlier movies are considered absolute classics, highly influential and widely regarded as the very best of their type. For me The Thing is number one, but I also love Starman.
Fantastic video, congratulations to the writer, to the editor and to the narrator. I LOVE ALL THE CARPENTER'S FILMS AND HIS MUSICAL CONTRIBUTIONS, ALL A TREASURE PERSONALLITY MAN!.
I’ll tell you what happened… He made a film called “They live” & then was accused of making the aliens in this film portray a certain group of people. Yes, Carpenter still made good films after “They live” but things were never the same again…
The main problem with Vampire$ is that the screenplay deviated too much from the source material. John Steakly's novel was awesome. I've read it three times.
Only really an issue for those who had read the novel. Carpenter has usually been a make a movie his own rather than adapt source material. I did read the novel but still really enjoyed the movie. The main character's name is even different, so could think of it as a new story about his brother, I guess.
Love this. Just a quick note. He made Halloween for 300k, not 6. He was also paid 10k for the film. He stated in interviews how frustrated he was because the movie grossed70 million and he only made 10k.
"Escape From LA" too closely copies the storyline of the first movie, but there's still some good action there, and it's a pleasure to watch Russell demonstrate why Snake Plissken is the greatest role of his career.
Nobody makes/made movies quite like John Carpenter. Assault on Precinct 13 (1976) is my Top Favorite of his films and in my Top 💯 Favorite Films of All Time, followed by The Thing, Prince of Darkness, and The Fog.
My favorite director of all time! * The Thing * They Live * Escape from New York * Halloween All his other movies are of varying quality, but that is ok. No other directors have made that many classics 👌
Back in 83 even our English teacher told the class of who John Carpenter is and most of us students had been familiar with 'The Fog' which has been shown on german TV. At that very time we were all too young to have seen Rated 18 movies like 'Assault', 'Halloween' and 'The Thing' though. Me, as a 15year old I managed to snug myself into a double feature showing of 'Christine' and 'Thing' in a Munich cinema at that time, so I knew what he was referring to. I liked 'Christine' even slightly better at the time for I really appreciated Carpenters feel for a perfect atmospheric synth score and always felt the FX of 'The Thing' to be way over the top, especially in regards to the positive perception of a wider audience.
John Carpenter 4Life 😎🤘 i love all the Movies and Music from him but my all Time Favorite will always be The Thing what a Masterpiece if you ask me 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
John carpenter was a true visionary and original…he inspired soooo many the great directors we love today. That’s the true respect. Watch ‘the directors chair’ Robert Rodriguez to get a small taste of the respect he gets from fellow directors.
Just watched In the Mouth of Madness last month and if he never made The Thing, I’d say that would be his masterpiece. Such an incredible slow burn but once it starts to hit and go full hog scary, it’s worth the wait. Sooooo good
What I love most about Carpenter is the sheer audacity of the abursidty that his films revolve around, they just have no right to be as spectacular as they are given the plot of 95% of his films but the man just somehow made them incredible
The fact that so many of his films were initially unappreciated and now are rightly considered classics just makes him a genius. In addition to this, his musical output is fantastic. He's a legend.
"Memoirs of an Invisible Man" gets too much hate. Its sometimes boring or isnt so fun or hilarious like others Carpenter or Chevy Chase movies but has great special effects, a fun plot and some hilarious moments, I think it was interesting and Sam neil was great. I have watched it a lot of times and I think it was a fun underrated flick, not the worst Chevy Chase and Carpenter movie
Every one of Carpenter's films is worthwhile. Even the least well regarded, things like Ghosts of Mars, is a top tier B movie worthy of a great drive-in movie experience. It's sad that big studios cheated him out of deals made to get some of his dream projects made like Creature from the Black Lagoon.
Just simply the best director ever! No one else can say they have as many masterpieces like John. From Halloween to The thing , just 2 of the best movies ever made , and one of them is really the best horror movie ever made! Small detail , Prince of Darkness beside being super awesome got the help of Alice Cooper and he got a small part there.
The simple fact is, Carpenter was ahead of his time for most people. He shaped cult films...created careers, inspiredpeople. ..because he does what interests him, and it works.
A critic watched Halloween without a sound srack & roasted it. Then watch the said movie with the soundtrack added & went on to admit it was terrifying. John Carpenter 'ROCKS' !
They live , in the mouth of madness , ghosts of mars , maximum overdrive and big trouble in little China ,all are in my top movies,with the thing of course
Finally saw "Dark Star" recently and it's a fun little low budget flick. Ending had me howling laughing. To take the core themes of "2001" and lampoon it for laughs was absolute genius.
He’s living the rest of his life in peace playing video games, living off the huge amount of money he has. I saw him multiple times a week for 2 years.
James Woods in "Vampires" may be one of the last times (before the 2000s) I have ever enjoyed a performance by him. Then he started getting supporting roles and "Vampires" is still an underrated fun cheesy vampire movie and its better than the Twilight movies in my opinion
The main reason Carpenter was hired to do Elvis because the exec in charge figured that he'd know a lot about Elvis Presley because he composed the music for Halloween. Carpenter thought it was hilarious that a decision like that was made by such a leap in logic, especially the disaster that could have happened if they just selected anyone by that criteria.
Easily one of my favourite directors and a great musician. Sooo influential. And Ghosts of Mars is underrated, very entertaining beer and pizza on a Friday night movie 🤘
John Carpenter must be the most unluckiest film director of all time. I think if The Thing had been a Box Office hit, the guy would be a major Hollywood film Director as Cameron or Spielberg.
The Thing was done too early for the public taste. If the film would been realized in the early 90's, The Thing probably would be recognized a lot more by both the audience and the critics.
The Halloween theme song will forever and always hold SUCH an eerily nostalgia-based feeling of fear inside of me lol I will never get EVER get over the ever-so longing creepiness of Michael Myers!!!!!!!!
Someone Is Watching Me dosent get enough mentions, its practically a test run for different things he would do filmmaking wise in Halloween and beyond and shot 2 or 3 weeks before he started making Halloween
This man still remain one of the most iconic and important horror movie directors with an excellent career of great horror movies, I still rewatch often "Halloween", "The thing", "They live", "The fog", "In the mouth of Madness", "Vampires" & "Prince of darkness"
Both Halloween and the thing are among my top 40 of all time, love both and i think Christine is underated, the only of his movies you didn't mention, what do you think about it?
In the mouth of madness, they live, the thing and Halloween are amazing movies that are still great. Vampires and the fog cant comment, haven't seen.
In the mouth of madness .. Sam Neil's opus! Oh..or is it Event Horizon? Man..those are my teenage years
Just plain director all the movies he made in the 80s ( except for starman) are awesome even in the 80s I loved them he's totally underrated
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I love John Carpenter as a director. He made some of my favourite films like Assault on Precinct 13, Halloween, The Fog, Escape from New York, The Thing, Christine, Big Trouble in Little China, They Live, Prince of Darkness, In the Mouth of Madness, Village of the Damned, Escape from LA and Vampires.
I'm pretty sure that no movie before 13 showed a little girl straight up being murdered, much less right in the beginning. I remember being astounded and shocked when I first saw it as a young teen. Good memories. Fortunately, there is nothing left in the nostalgia well for the woke to tempt us with... even though they haven't gotten ANY of my money.
@@the-trustees - if you forget Fritz Lang's M in 1931 (and the 1951 remake!), 1961's MAD DOG COLL, or Lucio Fulci's 1972 DON'T TORTURE A DUCKLING (a film Carpenter said he'd seen before making AoP13).
@@drdarkeny Ok... I stand corrected? The kid(s) were killed without any cutaways, as graphically as in 13? If so, then I retract my statement. 😀
@@the-trustees - yep, it's not graphic but it's not a cutaway, either! It's right here - ruclips.net/video/YrcQ6MiMA3o/видео.html .
I scrubbed through it a few times just now, sure I'd seen it. I'd forgotten how many actors I know were in this movie - Jerry Orbach(!), Vincent Gardenia, Gene Hackman(!!!), Telly Savalas, Brooke Hayward, Leonardo Cimino.... Half the cast is better known than the star, John Davis Chandler, who's mostly known for playing slimeballs on television and in B-movies.
@@drdarkeny Sorry... No blood. No hole in clothing. No screams. It's not even close to the "in your face" graphic brutality shown in 13. I remember feeling especially horrified (I think I was 14 when it came to cable TV) that it seemed so totally unnecessary. Yes, in 1961, they were shot and killed, but it was all implied and DEFINITELY cut away after they fell. I appreciate the attempt, but you MUST see that it isn't even close. In 13 he MEANT to kill her. In 1961 they were caught in the crossfire. NO intent. Agreed? 😀
His 80s films defined my youth and created my love of horror and sci-fi. I will always love my father for letting me watch them with him well before I was old enough. These were the films I ran to the video store to rent when Halloween came each year. Classics in every sense. You can tell the magic left him in the 90s, not because he was lesser, more, the passion left and it shows in all those films. CGI and him are like oil and water. His 70s and 80s Classics are the movies I can’t wait for my kids to get old enough to watch with me. His horror is my favorite but their is something for everyone with his films. I met so many people who never saw Big Trouble In Little China and I would watch it with them in College and helped create alot of new Carpenter Fans. I called it his “Gateway Movie.” Prince of Darkness was a Halloween staple for many years, “The Demonic Thing” we called it.
As always great video. Thanks for putting all those awesome memories in one place!
Agreed. I remember watching The Thing religiously every year all through the 90's and when it was almost an unknown movie at that time. I remember buying the laser disk version of The Thing thinking I would 'have this for life'. I think I paid like $70 dollars america for it at the time. Sadly it didn't have a directors audio track which so many other LD did. But I must have watched that 30 times in the span of only a few years And yea it had a bit of a following then, but most people had no idea what it was, and if they did they remembered the bad reviews it got and how it came out just after ET to bad reviews since the world as looking for light faire like ET at the time, which they were shocked by an 'monsterous alien' despite the movie being absolute brilliance, and for me wthout doubt Carpenters best.
Similarly I remember watching The Fog, and people hating it, and I just couldn't believe how cool of settings he was able to conjure up for his films... Big Trouble in Little China was a cult classic I remember in the 80's loving, despite people again hating it. In my small town it was considered story telling at it's finest.
Movies like The Warriors, Rambo, The Thing, etc were absolutely cinema gold back then. In my mind Carpenter is easily as important as the big film makers like Stephen Spielberg, Zumekis, etc. I worked on later Zumekis films, and despite Zumekis's later work being received well, Contact, Cast Away, etc. his later movies were no where near his earlier movies like Back To The Future, etc... So it seems that all directors have their best movies when they are younger. Even Spielberg's most influential hits were his first movies. Jaws, Indian Jones, ET, etc. His later films might have more breadth, and scope, etc. But it is his first movies that captured the imagination of the world.
Similarly with Carpenter, it was his earlier simple ideas that were so perfectly executed that they felt like every word, every image in the film perfectly served the idea, such that it was crystal clear what the film was about. His later works, like other directors become to jumbled, trying too say too much. Where movies like The Thing, were so laser focused on a couple ideas, the result is, I very much agree, a perfect Film.
I absolutely love Carpenter's work, especially The Thing, Halloween, Escape From New York, Assault on precinct 13, In the mouth of madness, and They Live, all of which are classics. I almost forgot, and Big Trouble In Little China!
Mouth of Madness was his last good movie after that he made the worst shit Ive ever seen. His later movies arent even so-bad-its-good just BAD!!!!!
Carpenter is 1 of those filmmakers who became a favorite among movie goers, even though most of his movies were not big hits when they came out
Big Trouble not being a hit is crazy its one of the most enjoyable movies ever made maybe because Jack Burton was kind of a jerk off people didnt get it
The fact that almost half of his work was not considered amazing when it came out is just depressing. Seriously imagine making The Thing and being hated by everyone.
The downside to being a trailblazer is you have to go offroad.
@@bulbafett5001 lol..that's my favourite part!! Untrodden paths are my bread and butter.. lucky for humanity I'm built this way! ;)
Yeah so well said. We wonder wtf happened to him? Who wouldnt feel disillusioned when everybody praises him as a cinematic genius yet nobody paid to see his films 😖
I loved it when it came out
Of course filmmaking isn’t necessarily a young person’s game. Just look at the work of some of the oldest directors ever and you’ll see.
"Starman" has some of the best work by Jeff Bridges and also Sam neil in "In the mouth of Madness". Excellent underrated performances
Halloween made John Carpenter a household name in the horror genre. Excellent filmmaker.
Poor John really got screwed over by the Film industry.
Yep! John is an auteur which means he likes to be in complete control of his projects.
Crazy to think that he scored his films. The only other director I can think of who has made music for his films is Robert Rodriguez but it was hand full of tracks and not whole film.
Right? Halloween without HIS sound effects & score would have been bad.
One of my favorite horror directors of all time the 80's was definitely his peak The Thing is his masterpiece
have you watched The Void? it's like a love letter to carpenter's style
The Thing is his best movie .. a solid gold classic !
The Thing is my favorite horror movie ever. Never gets old. Still holds up to this day.
As he said, a perfect film. R.J. McCready was a stud.
Carpenter remains among the top three directors of SF and Horror, especially the lo-fi and neon-drenched 80's variety. His SynthWave output is also _amazing,_ in fact he seems more committed these days to performing with his group on the synthesizer than directing. Nonetheless his influence can still be seen everywhere. For instance the brilliant 'Upgrade' to me felt exactly like a retro Carpenter film, only filmed with technology and techniques that were 30 years more advanced.
I would dearly love him to have another try at independent horror or quasi-body horror/cyberpunk. A little (comparatively) money these days goes much further than it did in 1980. I think to some extent he just doesn't have same interest and drive he once did.
Curious to hear your other two
@@andersonprimer Ridley Scott and James Cameron.
My favorite director. Love his work. He done alot with what he had. Respect.
In The Mouth of Madness is easily one of the most horrifying films I've ever seen. I'd rate it alongside The Shining and Event Horizon as one that really left a mark on me
That "very young Kurt Russell" was already a nearly two-decade veteran by then, having been (finally!) let go by Disney. He survived the traps of child stardom (and the Disney factory) to become a popular young actor, looking to show what he could do when not asked to be cast opposite a chimpanzee or a horse.
I’m glad you revised your take on The Thing from among the best horror/sci fi films of all time, to one of the best films period.
My favourite movie. I wouldn’t even say I’m a huge horror buff, but the experience of sitting at my mates place at 4am after a night clubbing and just being blown away with what I was watching.
While his movies were still fun to watch, Carpenter's late career reminds me of a fighter who stuck around for one too many fights. The effort is there, but the hunger was gone. He's stated in many interviews he was burnt out near the end of his run. But he'll still go down as one of the best in my opinion. I still hope we get to see a Dead Space movie directed by him before he's gone.
I actually love Ghosts of Mars. It's not as bad as people say.
It's cheap but still very good. All the hallmarks are still there. I think maybe Ice Cube's presence affected expectations although he did a good job.
John Carpenter DVDs are so worth listening to his commentaries . Especially with Kurt Russell . Some of what they talk about is their personal lives but from time to time they do talk about how some scenes were shot . They're my favorite commentaries .
John Carpenter, the one of the most talented film makers ever
Great video. That Prince of Darkness ending stuck with me for weeks afterwards
He’s made most of my favorite movies.
I dont feel like Escape from LA was that bad. It may have been a while since I've seen it but I remember it being fun and it had a lot of actors that seemed like they were having a really good time with the project.
It is good. People who say it's bad either never saw it, or saw it once when they were kids and just remember that bad CGI. Heck, I didn't even like it when I first saw it at 12. Now it's one of my favorite Carpenter flicks. All the actors are great, the practical effects are perfectly fine, the story is well written, and unlike EFNY, EFLA is actually an action movie from start to finish.
It’s bad in that it’s the sequel to Escape from NY, which is awesome. It really pales in comparison. I remember going to see it in a theater and being very disappointed
My wife and I actually got to see his music show when he came to Chicago. It was fun and it was incredible getting to be in the same room as this legend.
The Man, the myth, the legend.
This Narrator!!!!!
The true wtf video needs to be Made about your greatness my dude!
Even if he never made another movie, he has done it all and as you have already mentioned, some of his earlier movies are considered absolute classics, highly influential and widely regarded as the very best of their type. For me The Thing is number one, but I also love Starman.
Fantastic video, congratulations to the writer, to the editor and to the narrator.
I LOVE ALL THE CARPENTER'S FILMS AND HIS MUSICAL CONTRIBUTIONS, ALL A TREASURE PERSONALLITY MAN!.
IMHO one of the most underappreciatced men in Hollywood (along with Walter Hill) .
I’ll tell you what happened… He made a film called “They live” & then was accused of making the aliens in this film portray a certain group of people. Yes, Carpenter still made good films after “They live” but things were never the same again…
Why would they immediately assume he was referring to that "certain group"? Seems like an out-of-nowhere leap in logic.
@@Double-R-Nothing Carpenter had to defend himself at one point & said that it was just a sci fi action film. Nothing beyond that.
@@Ur2ez4me81 I can probably guess what that "certain group" was.
Shows the movie was being pretty true then is how I see it lol if they immediately got offended they must be guilty
Carpenter and his stars were not shy about saying the aliens represented the rich greedy people of the 80s, basically Republicans.
The main problem with Vampire$ is that the screenplay deviated too much from the source material. John Steakly's novel was awesome. I've read it three times.
Only really an issue for those who had read the novel. Carpenter has usually been a make a movie his own rather than adapt source material. I did read the novel but still really enjoyed the movie. The main character's name is even different, so could think of it as a new story about his brother, I guess.
I watch every video from this channel
Love this. Just a quick note. He made Halloween for 300k, not 6. He was also paid 10k for the film. He stated in interviews how frustrated he was because the movie grossed70 million and he only made 10k.
The writing is on point as always! Really learned a lot about a great filmmaker
Would love if John Carpenter did a commentary track for stranger things.
Big Trouble in Little China is my favorite movie. It's so brilliant, funny, and subversive I just love it.
When he was hot he truly was one of a kind and gave us a lot of thrills 👍
Got all his movies on Blu-Ray ...just waiting for the 4K versions..
"Escape From LA" too closely copies the storyline of the first movie, but there's still some good action there, and it's a pleasure to watch Russell demonstrate why Snake Plissken is the greatest role of his career.
They Live and Halloween are some of the best flicks around! Plus the musical theme to Halloween is so legendary!
I love his script and score for Halloween III
love your work bro. this was fun to watch. thank you
Halloween, The Thing, The Fog and They Live are among my all time favorite films. If They Live is on TV I'm watching it, I can't get enough of it.
John Carpenter is a legend. Halloween and The Thing are two of the best movies ever. His music is 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 Vortex is a great track.
Nobody makes/made movies quite like John Carpenter. Assault on Precinct 13 (1976) is my Top Favorite of his films and in my Top 💯 Favorite Films of All Time, followed by The Thing, Prince of Darkness, and The Fog.
My favorite director of all time!
* The Thing
* They Live
* Escape from New York
* Halloween
All his other movies are of varying quality, but that is ok. No other directors have made that many classics 👌
Back in 83 even our English teacher told the class of who John Carpenter is and most of us students had been familiar with 'The Fog' which has been shown on german TV.
At that very time we were all too young to have seen Rated 18 movies like 'Assault', 'Halloween' and 'The Thing' though.
Me, as a 15year old I managed to snug myself into a double feature showing of 'Christine' and 'Thing' in a Munich cinema at that time, so I knew what he was referring to.
I liked 'Christine' even slightly better at the time for I really appreciated Carpenters feel for a perfect atmospheric synth score and always felt the FX of 'The Thing' to be way over the top, especially in regards to the positive perception of a wider audience.
John Carpenter 4Life 😎🤘 i love all the Movies and Music from him but my all Time Favorite will always be The Thing what a Masterpiece if you ask me 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
*John Carpenter* is the greatest of all time *enough said*
He´s the main Man..Many classics under Belt..We Adore you Mr Carpenter..
One of the Greatest, most Influential Filmmakers and Composers of all time
23:07 What a great portrait of a great man.
The cripple fight in South Park between Jimmy and Timmy was 100% an homage to They Live according to Matt and Trey
John carpenter was a true visionary and original…he inspired soooo many the great directors we love today. That’s the true respect. Watch ‘the directors chair’ Robert Rodriguez to get a small taste of the respect he gets from fellow directors.
Just watched In the Mouth of Madness last month and if he never made The Thing, I’d say that would be his masterpiece. Such an incredible slow burn but once it starts to hit and go full hog scary, it’s worth the wait. Sooooo good
Crazy how I was just thinking where did Carpenter go, so i googled his name and found this. Thanks JoBlo
Good timing, i was listening to his anthology album
What I love most about Carpenter is the sheer audacity of the abursidty that his films revolve around, they just have no right to be as spectacular as they are given the plot of 95% of his films but the man just somehow made them incredible
They Live is one of my all time favourites. In the Mouth of Madness is also a classic. Carpenter is a legend
John Carpenter is the best US american director ever, and that is even his style is more european than american.
Dance With The Dead take inspiration from Carpenter in their music.
love this man and his work , a true maestro , big inspration!!! thank you for this video
Lol JoBlo I know the score is some random stock music but always hearing it and the commentary voice makes me happy. Maybe I'm an ideal consoomerr
Dude is a legend. A rebel for modern time.
The fact that so many of his films were initially unappreciated and now are rightly considered classics just makes him a genius. In addition to this, his musical output is fantastic. He's a legend.
"Memoirs of an Invisible Man" gets too much hate. Its sometimes boring or isnt so fun or hilarious like others Carpenter or Chevy Chase movies but has great special effects, a fun plot and some hilarious moments, I think it was interesting and Sam neil was great. I have watched it a lot of times and I think it was a fun underrated flick, not the worst Chevy Chase and Carpenter movie
It should get more hate honestly as being the film (or more accurately, the actor ego) that broke Carpenter. Hated it even as a kid
Norman taurog directed a yank at eton 1942 with Edmund gwenn alan Mowbray Ian Hunter mickey Rooney
I always think it could have been better if chevy and Sam swapped roles.
That I'd like to see!
Every one of Carpenter's films is worthwhile. Even the least well regarded, things like Ghosts of Mars, is a top tier B movie worthy of a great drive-in movie experience.
It's sad that big studios cheated him out of deals made to get some of his dream projects made like Creature from the Black Lagoon.
I loved 1982 The Thing and have a copy. My other JC fave was his The Fog (ok, so I lusted after Adrienne Barbeau)!
I LOVE Body Bags!! Carpenter was awesome!! VERY underrated!!
Nostalgia aside it's only by watching this that I understand why he's not a very good director thankyou for the insight.
Just simply the best director ever! No one else can say they have as many masterpieces like John. From Halloween to The thing , just 2 of the best movies ever made , and one of them is really the best horror movie ever made!
Small detail , Prince of Darkness beside being super awesome got the help of Alice Cooper and he got a small part there.
Carpenter is in my top 10 fav directors, right up there with Kubrick. No one can top The Thing. Rock on John!
The simple fact is, Carpenter was ahead of his time for most people. He shaped cult films...created careers, inspiredpeople. ..because he does what interests him, and it works.
I saw him on tour at the Warwick Arts Centre in Coventry,England. October 2016.
A critic watched Halloween without a sound srack & roasted it. Then watch the said movie with the soundtrack added & went on to admit it was terrifying. John Carpenter 'ROCKS' !
They live , in the mouth of madness , ghosts of mars , maximum overdrive and big trouble in little China ,all are in my top movies,with the thing of course
Seen him live twice, absolutely phenomenal 👏 I've got a huge soft spot for EFLA and Ghosts Of Mars.
I think he’s the best director ever. I didn’t realize he directed all these movies.
Finally saw "Dark Star" recently and it's a fun little low budget flick. Ending had me howling laughing. To take the core themes of "2001" and lampoon it for laughs was absolute genius.
john carpenter and Sam Raimi are my two most fav horror directors
Me too.
Favorite films from him are
Assault on precinct 13
Halloween
Christine
They Live
The Fog
He’s living the rest of his life in peace playing video games, living off the huge amount of money he has. I saw him multiple times a week for 2 years.
James Woods in "Vampires" may be one of the last times (before the 2000s) I have ever enjoyed a performance by him. Then he started getting supporting roles and "Vampires" is still an underrated fun cheesy vampire movie and its better than the Twilight movies in my opinion
Vampires was great. I don’t know why it’s seen as such a bad movie.
The main reason Carpenter was hired to do Elvis because the exec in charge figured that he'd know a lot about Elvis Presley because he composed the music for Halloween. Carpenter thought it was hilarious that a decision like that was made by such a leap in logic, especially the disaster that could have happened if they just selected anyone by that criteria.
I know So ridiculous. Thank God John Carpenter took the job and it was a great portrayal of Elvis and how it looked.
Easily one of my favourite directors and a great musician. Sooo influential. And Ghosts of Mars is underrated, very entertaining beer and pizza on a Friday night movie 🤘
John Carpenter must be the most unluckiest film director of all time. I think if The Thing had been a Box Office hit, the guy would be a major Hollywood film Director as Cameron or Spielberg.
I don't care what anyone says, I love 'Memoirs of an Invisible Man'. Okay, it's not iconic like some of his other movies, but DAMN it's good.
I love "they live" - will there be a remake?
Love Carpenter's The Thing, but it is not the original. Great video!
Judging by the thumbnail, I’d say he turned into Paul Tuetle from OCC.
A Journey Through Time with a great storyteller and musician
"In France, I'm an auteur;
in Britain, a genre film director;
& in the USA, a bum." - John Carpenter
some of my favorite movies... between Cannon & John Carpenter... movies used to be rad.
The Thing was done too early for the public taste. If the film would been realized in the early 90's, The Thing probably would be recognized a lot more by both the audience and the critics.
It also came out same time as ET. I've seen it twice in theaters so, happy.
The Halloween theme song will forever and always hold SUCH an eerily nostalgia-based feeling of fear inside of me lol I will never get EVER get over the ever-so longing creepiness of Michael Myers!!!!!!!!
Someone Is Watching Me dosent get enough mentions, its practically a test run for different things he would do filmmaking wise in Halloween and beyond and shot 2 or 3 weeks before he started making Halloween
I liked every John Carpenter movie this far and whatever movie he makes in the future...period
Great tribute, but at 6:15 you say that Halloween had a 600K budget; it was only 300K.
Like many others in this comments section, he is my favorite filmmaker and one of the bravest cinema auteurs.
My favorite director, his filmography is solid through and through!! I even like his lesser films like Escape From L.A. not a bad entry for me.