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Review: Fans Of Alien Will Burst Their Chests With Love For MEMORY: THE ORIGINS OF ALIEN

Along with Star Wars, Alien helped redefine the science fiction genre when it was released in 1979. Ridley Scott’s film was a bleak, lived-in look at the genre, a film which took a real world aesthetic and crafted a film which combines sci-fi, [...]

September 17, 2019

Review: Kurt Russell Is Snake Plissken In John Carpenter’s ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK

When you look at how action cinema developed over the 1980s, it’s now clear to see that Escape From New York is one of the films which established the template for the muscular action hero. John Carpenter’s 1981 film (his second of many with [...]

November 3, 2018

Review: Michael Myer’s Returns To Haddonfield In David Gordon Green’s Follow-Up To John Carpenter’s HALLOWEEN

John Carpenter’s Halloween is as near to perfect as any slasher film can be and the 1978 horror is a masterful exercise in suspense, augmented by come exceptional camera work (the opening is still stunning) and a wonderful score. A multitude of [...]

October 27, 2018

Blu-ray Review: Fred Dekker’s Horror Homage NIGHT OF THE CREEPS Is Gloriously Bonkers

Fred Dekker’s 1986 directorial debut, Night Of The Creeps is a gloriously bonkers horror-comedy which blends 1950s B-movie/sci-fi with 1980s frat-boy comedy. You’d think the whole thing would buckle under the silliness of it all, but Dekker [...]

October 20, 2018

Review: John Carpenter’s THE FOG Is A Classic Ghost Story

After taking a break from horror to make Elvis in 1979, John Carpenter returned to the genre with The Fog, an atmospheric ghost story set in the fictional Californian town of Antonio Bay. When The Fog starts rolling-in, so does the crew of [...]

October 16, 2018

Review: John Carpenter’s Horror Classic HALLOWEEN Is Still Great 40 Years Later

The horror genre can often (rightfully) be maligned. Many of the films within the genre are cheap exploitation films, whose filmmakers care more about monetary return than crafting a great movie. However, John Carpenter constructed an instant [...]

October 3, 2018

Blu-ray Review: John Carpenter’s MEMOIRS OF AN INVISIBLE MAN Features Chevy Chase Like You’ve Never Seen Him Before

Memoirs Of An Invisible Man sees John Carpenter take a trip into Alfred Hitchcock territory, riffing on North By Northwest with Chevy Chase slipping into Cary Grant’s well-healed shoes. It’s a solid attempt at recreating that vibe, but sadly [...]

September 29, 2018

CLOSED Competition: Win John Carpenter’s MEMOIRS OF AN INVISIBLE MAN On Blu-ray

John Carpenter’s Memoirs Of An Invisible Man starring Chevy Chase, Daryl Hannah and Sam Neill is getting a long-awaited DVD and blu-ray release in the UK on 1 October from Fabulous Films. To celebrate the occasion, Movies In Focus is giving [...]

September 15, 2018

Jamie Lee Curtis Is Ready To Protect In The Second HALLOWEEN Trailer

Halloween is nearly here. Jame Lee Cutis is back as Laurie Strode in David Gordon Green’s Halloween reboot/sequel/continuation – which drops on 18 October. Movies In Focus, a long-term John Carpenter fan (the Master Od Horror produces [...]

September 5, 2018

It’s Time to Go Back To Haddonfield: New HALLOWEEN Trailer Is Here – And It Rocks

The Halloween franchise has had a long and convoluted history, but now David Gordon Green and Danny McBride have cleared the board and reset to near zero (with the help of Jason Blum and John Carpenter). Halloween 2018 pitches itself as the true [...]

June 9, 2018

New HALLOWEEN Poster; John Carpenter Confirmed For Score

The poster for the David Gordon Green’s Halloween sequel has dropped – and it shows a familiar face. Old Michael Myers is back to bring terror to the leafy streets of Haddonfield, Illinois and it has been confined that John Carpenter [...]

April 21, 2018

Notes On John Carpenter’s BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA

Movies In Focus and the National Justice Museum’s John Carpenter Film Season continued with Big Trouble In Little China (the first was The Fog). I once again introduced the film, offering the audience a little insight into the 1986 film. Here are [...]

April 14, 2018

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