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The Alternate Ending In The Thing That Was Thankfully Cut
John Carpenter’s “The Thing” is one of those classics that always gets cited as an example of a film that was an outward failure, initially, but that time has vindicated with a much-deserved reappraisal. It was not a critical or commercial success on its release, but in the years since then, it has come to be […]
Continue readingLost Boys Remake In The Works With It And Quiet Place Stars
One thing about Hollywood I could never stomach: all the damn remakes. Okay, so that’s not totally true, but it was too good of an opportunity to rephrase that great line from “The Lost Boys” in a story about a pending remake of that very movie.Truth is that there’s a surprisingly solid trend of strong genre remakes. […]
Continue readingJohn Carpenter to Create Horror Audio Shows for Serial Box, Calls It “A New Way to Strike Fear Into the Hearts of Our Audience”
Horror maestro John Carpenter hasn’t directed a movie in more than a decade, and that doesn’t seem likely to change any time soon. But the director of movies like The Thing, Halloween, and The Fog is now set to explore the horror genre through a new medium: audio. Carpenter and his wife, producer Sandy King […]
Continue readingJohn Carpenter’s ‘Escape from New York’ and ‘The Fog’ Scores Getting Vinyl Reissue
Two more classic John Carpenter soundtracks are getting the vinyl treatment for fans of the horror director and composing maestro’s cult favorites. The scores for “Escape from New York,” the 1981 dystopian thriller starring Kurt Russell, and “The Fog,” the 1980 supernatural horror movie, will receive vinyl reissues from Waxwork Records in September.The label previously […]
Continue readingWilford Brimley, ‘The Natural’ and ‘Cocoon’ Star, Dies at 85
Wilford Brimley, best known for his roles in “The Natural,” the 1982 remake of “The Thing,” “The Firm” and “Cocoon,” died on Saturday. He was 85.His agent, Lynda Bensky, told The New York Times that he had been sick with a kidney problem for two months.Brimley was also famous for the series of commercials for […]
Continue reading‘Blade Runner’ Anniversary: The Weekend When ‘E.T.’ and ‘Star Trek II’ Crushed Ridley Scott
In the early 1980s, Cinefantastique was an extraordinarily detailed and authoritative sci-fi film magazine. Founded as a mimeographed fanzine a year before the 1968 release of “2001: A Space Odyssey,” it became a serious, almost scholarly glossy. And in 1982, Cinefantastique opened the year with a double issue that featured “Blade Runner,” Ridley Scott’s adaptation […]
Continue readingJohn Carpenter Will Resurrect Lost Music from ‘The Thing’ with New Ep
A new version of the original soundtrack for “The Thing,” John Carpenter’s classic science-fiction horror movie from 1982, is coming for fans of the film and Carpenter’s own work as a composer. “Lost Cues: The Thing,” a compilation of unreleased music from the body-horror film set in Antarctica, will arrive on May 5 via Waxwork […]
Continue readingJohn Carpenter’s Unreleased ‘The Thing’ Musical Cues Coming to Vinyl
While John Carpenter provided the music for most of his films, he didn’t score one of his most iconic works: The Thing. Instead, legendary composer Ennio Morricone handled the soundtrack. However, Carpenter did create some additional cues to fill in some stretches of silence in the film, and now, that previously unreleased music is coming […]
Continue reading‘The Thing’ Remake Based on Original Novel in the Works at Universal and Blumhouse
Universal and Blumhouse may be teaming up to remake The Thing, with the new version based on the recently surfaced long-lost pages of the original novel by John W. Campbell Jr. Campbell Jr.’s short novella, Who Goes There? — which became the basis for three previous film adaptations — was originally published in the August […]
Continue readingBlumhouse Reportedly Working On ‘The Thing’ Remake Based On Author’s Long-Lost Novel
Horror film remakes are nothing new. After a franchise lays dormant for a few years, Hollywood has the tendency to dust it off and take a new stab at box office glory. Well, it appears that Blumhouse and Universal are set to do that with John Carpenter’s “The Thing.” However, this remake isn’t your typical […]
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