Discovery

Whenever I meet someone who will go to the mat for John Carpenter, that to me is a qualifier for friendship. In my mind, Carpenter is like Stanley Kubrick with holes in his jeans, or a joint to a $15 cigar, or Pabst Blue Ribbon to Heineken if I can be Frank. From 1976 with Assault>Five interwoven stories of high-octane horror centering>So, it’s an anthology horror film to boot a la next October’s Trick ‘r Treat. Those are always difficult to pull off, but harder to make work at the box office (why is that ), but it seems like perfect socio-skewer material for Carpenter’s return to feature filmmaking. Plus, theatrical anthology horror simply rocks. And, you know, for some reason critics just love movies about L.A., especially when the city’s in the title.