I never understood why this film never really found an audience. It’s classic Stephen King directed by classic John Carpenter. I never understood why this film never really found an audience. It’s classic Stephen King directed by classic John Carpenter. King’s narrative of the teen nerd no one likes supernaturally…
This is one of those stories where a studio head says “What the heck. Let’s make a movie.” Scriptwriter Tom Holland was a successful writer and wanted to direct his next script, a horror film. Horror was in during the 80s, but vampire films were in short supply (this was…
In the seventies, mainstream horror movies were more supernatural than slasher movies. From “The Exorcist” to “The Omen” to “Carrie”, it too devils and demons to be scary enough for Hollywood to invest serious money into the genre. The “escaped lunatic” with a knife wasn’t enough. Films like that were…
I don’t think John Landis can do straight horror, but this is probably the closest he ever came to doing so. “An American Werewolf in London” brought scenes of comedy mixed with the macabre. Heck, some of the scenes are so hyperviolent I’m surprised they passed MPAA scrutiny, and several…