John Carpenter: The Master of Horror?
CatBusRuss is not afraid to call him a Master of Horror, but his ability to dive into other genres makes him a more versatile auteur than say Dario Argento. Carpenter may have been able to make run at the title if he was directing in Italy, but that could have deprived us of the genre flair that he offered up. Would we trade the like of Jack Burton and Snake Plisken for his take on “Deep Red”? This podcast says no.
Horror Pictures (Sinful Cinema)
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In the Mouth of Madness (1994)
The conclusion of the “Apocalypse Trilogy” focuses on an insurance investigators task to locate an unstable horror novelist who out sells Stephen King. To succeed he must survive rabid readers and the authors insistence that everything he writes changes reality.
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Prince of Darkness (1987)
LA’s Catholic Dioces has been hiding a dark secret in the basement of a church. It is a vat of a green liquid that seems to be alive. A team from USC will try to determine what this substance is. With visions plaguing the team and possessed vagrants surrounding the church, evil is the only possible answer.
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The Thing (1982)
Andrew Tiede & CatBusRuss go on a movie marathon to justify John Carpenter’s classic overly long runtime, discussing other features about monsters or people you cannot trust.
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The Ward (2010)
A young woman is institutionalized after she inexplicably burned down a farmhouse. She may have been better off going to jail because she is stuck in a hospital using outdated methods of “therapy”. Therapy that will not rid all the patients fears of a killer ghost.