We ranked John Carpenter's 18 feature films: The 'master of horror' has had a much more eclectic career than it's often portrayed, but his imagination can't be restrained horrormovies JohnCarpenter Halloween
As a 30-something horror geek who first dove headfirst into the genre in college, there was never a time for me when cultural appraisal of John Carpenter’swas anything other than as a universally lauded masterpiece of the horror and science fiction genres. That’s the reality I’ve always existed in, which makes it all that much stranger to read about how much critics sincerelyCarpenter’s film upon its release in 1982. They hated its unflinchingly gross gore and morphing effects.
It’s incredible, then, to think of how utterly the film was reappraised over the course of the next three decades. How many classics in this genre really end up that way after being not just “overlooked” in their initial releases, but widely condemned as abominations? The consensus onOne thing the critics certainly weren’t wrong about was the film’s emotional temperature—everything aboutis icy cold and remorseless.
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