Split Picks examines two ’90s Carpenter films for its special October Horror series
Split Picks continues its look into the four American titans of horror. After discussing Tobe Hooper last week, John Carpenter takes his turn in the spotlight. Filmmaker Steve Collins and actor John Merriman join Craig to talk about Carpenter in the ’90s. Steve brings In The Mouth of Madness (1994); John brings John Carpenter’s Vampires (1998).
They talk about Carpenter’s attraction to depicting distilled evil on film, the lovable (well, sometimes) average working men who drive his narratives, and the brilliance of Carpenter’s simplistic soundtracks. John, Steve, and Craig pick their ideal spinoff-films from the characters in In The Mouth of Madness. On Vampires, they break down the pairing of James Woods and Daniel Baldwin as vampire-hunting stars, they contemplate a few of its miscalculations, and how the film is the closest we have to a Carpenter Western film.
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New Split Picks episodes arrive Fridays in October. Next up: Wes Craven’s Deadly Blessing Vs. Shocker with Bennett Glace and Jim Hickcox.
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