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Halloween Trailer: 40 Years On – Do You Still Believe In The Bogeyman?

8th June 2018 by Sarah Cartland Leave a Comment

“You don’t believe in the bogeyman? You should” says Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) ominously. And if I didn’t before this trailer, I sure as hell do now. I LITERALLY jumped up from my seat at the babysitter-closet scene in this trailer, and as I’m an editor you can be sure I will always use… Halloween Trailer: 40 Years On – Do You Still Believe In The Bogeyman? Read More

Filed Under: Trailers Tagged With: halloween, horror, jamie lee curtis, john carpenter, laurie strode, michael myers

Dark Star – Video Review Includes Video 4 stars☆☆☆☆☆

13th June 2017 by Sarah Cartland Leave a Comment

Click here for the full Dark Star review

Filed Under: Film Reviews Tagged With: dan o bannon, dark star review, dark star video review, john carpenter, sci fi, talking bomb, video-review

The Thing – Video Review Includes Video 4 stars☆☆☆☆☆

12th June 2017 by Sarah Cartland Leave a Comment

Click here for The Thing (1982) full review

Filed Under: Film Reviews Tagged With: antarctica, john carpenter, kurt russell, the thing, the thing review, the thing video review, video-review

Dark Star 4 stars☆☆☆☆☆

9th April 2017 by Sarah Cartland Leave a Comment

Set in the 22nd century, Dark Star chronicles the lives of the crew of the eponymous spaceship – already in space for two decades, they are tasked with destroying unstable planets so Earth can potentially colonise other planets nearby. Contact between the Dark Star and Earth is perfunctory and occasional at best. Mission Control back on Earth make it clear… Dark Star Read More

Filed Under: Film Reviews Tagged With: black comedy, boiler, commander Powell, dark star, Doolittle, intelligent bomb, john carpenter, Phoenix asteroid, pinback, science fiction, space, Talby, Veil nebula

The Thing (1982) 4 stars☆☆☆☆☆

4th April 2017 by Sarah Cartland 2 Comments

A hipster slate, greenery garnish and a jus - but still something didn't seem quite right

John Carpenter’s The Thing has everything – physical isolation in an antarctic scientific base, failed communication channels, a coming storm (literal and metaphorical), psychological horror as the threat grows and established friendships crumble, and really, really disgusting monsters that I couldn’t take my eyes off. There is a delightful yuck factor to The Thing’s Things. (That is… The Thing (1982) Read More

Filed Under: Film Reviews Tagged With: alien, antarctica, childs, horror, isolation, john carpenter, keith david, kurt russell, macready, mutant, research station, the thing, who goes there

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