57. John Carpenter Part 2 - 1982 to 1987

Welcome to Part 2 of our John Carpenter retrospective review series!

In this episode, we unpack and discuss the movies made during period of Carpenter’s filmography that most consider his absolute peak – and we completely agree! With one film in particular ranking tops among Carpenter’s work for all three of us, and for Sean in particular; his favourite film of all time.

In this episode, we discuss pressing matters like:

• If you’re a ‘Thing’, do you you know you’re a ‘Thing’?

• What happened to Fuchs?

• So, just who did get to Blair?

• Sweden.

• Why does it take over an hour for anyone to die in the horror film Christine?

• Where’s all the gore? I thought this was a horror film!

• Why is Dean Cundey such an incredible Cinematographer?

• Could you have done without seeing Jeff Bridges’ bare backside?

• Why is the character of Jack Burton so bloody funny?

• Big Trouble in Little China’s finest moments of sheer brilliance.

• What the hell was wrong with movie critics in the early 1980s?

• Aren’t those blokes a bit too old to be college students?

• A radio to talk with the future? The devil is a vat of green goo? Say what, now?

• Damn, is that Alice Cooper? I thought it was Harry Dean Stanton!

 

Yes sir! We’re absolutely over the moon to be talking The Thing (1982), Christine (1983), Starman (1984), Big Trouble in Little China (1986), and Prince of Darkness (1987)!