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It’s Halloween, everyone’s entitled to one good scare.

Six years ago, Marcus Dunstan was working at Blockbuster Home Video. Within the past four years, he and writing partner Patrick Melton have become major go-to’s in the horror world. On Friday, his directorial debut opened on 1,325 screens. Today, he shares his Top 5 Films with The Rejects. And now, in his own words…

Sure it’s been twenty-three years since John Carpenter made a great movie (Big Trouble In Little China), and since then he’s made three good films and five shitty ones, but I still hold out hope.

This isn’t necessarily new news, but it does move recent rumors into the realm of official announcement. Universal has hired Ronald Moore to write the big-budget “remake/re-imagining/prequel” of John Carpenter’s The Thing.

To paraphrase They Live’s main character, Nada, Hollywood has come to have original ideas and make movies… and they’re all out of original ideas.

/Film has debuted the new poster for the upcoming John Carpenter film, Riot, starring Nicolas Cage. This is Carpenter’s first feature film since 2001’s celestial shit-pile Ghosts of Mars.

You could forget about the math and the swing states, because the outcome of this election was predicted in 1988 by John Carpenter’s film They Live.

John Carpenter’s The Thing is a virtually perfect example of blending spine-chilling fears, awesome practical monster effects, and manly men with arctic beards.

It’s been common and unfortunate knowledge for a few years that a remake of John Carpenter’s classic, The Thing, was in development somewhere in Hollywood. Since that initial announcement there’s been nothing new to report. Until now.

And what has actor Nicolas Cage done to deserve such a thing? I’d say “crimes against humanity” just about covers it…

While scouring the Comic-Con show floor, I found some things that fit pretty easily into the Officially Cool Category. One of which was this 30th Anniversary DVD set for Halloween.

Exploring how Hitchcock, Carpenter and Cunningham changed the horror genre with 3 classic films.