On 24th August 2021, Severin Films launches a long-overdue re-appraisal of doomed Spanish auteur Eloy de la Iglesia with individual releases of his notorious ‘video nasty’ CANNIBAL MAN and the suspense shocker NO ONE HEARD THE SCREAM, plus a three-film set of Eloy’s landmark – and still startling – ‘70s…
Browsing: Kurt Russell
ESCAPE FROM L.A. **** USA 1996 Dir: John Carpenter. 99 mins Paramount gave Carpenter his biggest budget to date to make his only sequel as director : the result, co-written with Debra Hill and Kurt Russell, was one of the most bleakest “fun” movies of the 1990’s. It follows other…
BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA **** USA 1986 Dir: John Carpenter. 99 mins Awkwardly marketed by 20th Century Fox and unloved upon its release, this bold, brash genre mash-up proved a commercial failure that sent the filmmaker back to indie genre pictures, starting with PRINCE OF DARKNESS – which carries…
THE THING ***** USA 1982 Dir: John Carpenter. 108 mins The horribly disturbing tagline: “Man is the warmest place to hide”. In the same year as VIDEODROME (also released by Universal) and at the height of the special make-up effects revolution, this was contemptuously received by mainstream critics disgusted by…
ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK ***** USA 1981 Dir: John Carpenter. 99 mins Carpenter’s hugely influential dystopian sci-fi movie indulged his adoration of antiheroes and life-long disdain for authority, while taking the crime-ridden, pre-Giuliani state of New York City (already the subject of various vigilante movies) to its natural extreme. The…