By Sam Moore
As The Thing turns 40, its place within Carpenter's exploration of spiritual breakdown has never felt more prescient.
By Anton Bitel
The genre maestro’s dystopian thriller feels eerily prescient in its depiction of a broken police state.
By Thomas Hobbs
A personal essay on the director’s 1980 horror, which returns to cinemas this Halloween.
By Emma Fraser
From Psycho to Netflix’s The Haunting of Hill House, stairs have long played a key role in the genre.
Why pretending the past never happened can be the best thing for a film series and its fans.
David Gordon Green presents a John Carpenter-approved sequel to the slasher classic from 1978.
Fear and violence aren’t the only things that John Carpenter’s boogeyman brings to Haddonfield.
In Michael Myers, director John Carpenter created an enduring yet harmful horror archetype.
Jamie Lee Curtis faces her old adversary once again in David Gordon Green’s thrilling John Carpenter-approved sequel.
Michael Myers is back to terrorise Jamie Lee Curtis in the sequel to John Carpenter’s horror classic.
By Anton Bitel
Black Christmas contains one of the earliest examples of the ‘final girl’ trope in horror cinema.
With a pinch of Hammer Horror and a dollop of ’80s gore, this meta horror is the boldest in the series.
By Anton Bitel
The director’s newly-restored 1982 film continues to stand the test of time.
By Bryan Hempel
This cult classic tackles issues which have become of increasing importance since its release in 1988.
By Amy Bowker
It’s the Antarctic alien thriller adaptation we didn’t know we needed.
By Ian Mantgani
Jeremy Gillespie and Steven Kostanski’s cosmic horror-thriller fails to live up to its initial promise.
By Jack Godwin
John Carpenter’s classic sci-fi is being rebooted – but who will play eye-patched antihero Snake Plissken?
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