Harry Dean Stanton

Farewell to a great character actor, and another member of the Nostromo's crew. The title of the post below this is a quote from Brett, the character he portrayed in ALIEN, and today Harry Dean Stanton is gone. With 200 acting credits to his name, he worked with the likes of Carpenter, Scorsese, Coppola, Lynch, Wenders, and many, many more. He was one of a kind. Goodbye Mr. Stanton.

COOL HAND LUKE

TWO-LANE BLACKTOP

ALIEN

ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK

REPO MAN

PARIS, TEXAS

THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST

WILD AT HEART

TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME

FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS

TWIN PEAKS (2017)

I don't give a fuck about your war... or your president

While I escape the winter blues by heading up to the Northern Hemisphere for a week, I'll leave you with this A-number 1 new poster for Escape from New York by Kilian Eng. Lots of cool easter eggs hidden in the graffiti, but the glow-in-the-dark layer takes it to the next level.

More Live Carpenter + some extra gravy

Following on from this post, here's another glacially cool video of Carpenter performing with his new band, this time the main title theme from Escape from New York. This live version has a much harder, more muscular edge than the original, and it is absolutely badass. A friend of a friend of mine just saw Carpenter perform in Berlin and said it was incredible. The Southern Hemisphere awaits you Mr. Carpenter.

Now check out that killer tribute to the master at top, art courtesy of Kid Eternity. It's nice to see In the Mouth of Madness get thrown in with some of Carpenter's more conventionally appreciated films for once, as it's too often ignored. Madness is one of my personal faves, and is long overdue a stacked blu-ray release.

The good news on the blu-ray front is that Shout! Factory is releasing a new SE of The Thing this September, featuring a ton of new special features and a new 2K transfer approved by Dean Cundey. The old Universal SE is still great (in terms of its special features), but a spiffy new transfer is long overdue. That Universal release was one of the first dvds to hit the market (I think it was the first dvd I ever bought, back in '99 or 2000!).

The big, BIG news is that there's a new Halloween movie on the way, a Miramax/Blumhouse co-production. Rumoured directors are The Guest's Adam Wingard and Oculus' Mike Flanagan, both of whom are excellent choices. Carpenter would be executive producing in  a "hands on" capacity (unlike his producing credit on the woeful The Fog remake, for which he accepted a cheque and simply walked away), but perhaps the most exciting bit of news is that he's in talks to come on board to write and perform the score.

Back From The Dead

I move home from the Krankenhaus tomorrow, so it's time to get back to this blogging business. I still feel like shit and my brain is moving like industrial sludge, so my posts over the next few weeks will probably be of the less verbose variety. Maybe just some pretty pictures to viddy, my droogs.

Had to share this (via Fangoria), because it's just so damned cool. How cool? It's Snake Plissken, so it's holding steady on trajectory in the Gullfire and fast approaching Absolute Zero. For my money, there simply is no cooler badass in SF lore. Incidentally, check out the cover of the latest Fango. Fuck yeah.

This is a five minute clip of the legendary Alan Howarth performing music from EFNY and Christine just a couple of weeks ago at the Unsound Festival in New York. As the faithful already know, Alan also collaborated with JC on Big Trouble In Little China, Prince Of Darkness and They Live. The sound on this is good, so crank it up and enjoy!


Not enough? Well then, click the quote below for the OST to Escape From New York in all it's analog glory.

I don't give a fuck about your war... or your president