Where Hitchcock movies used composer Bernard Herrmann's piercing strings and The Third Man used whimsical zither, Carpenter and Co. make music that sounds like it could be from a John Carpenter ...

Sound of Cinema The Return of The Lord of the Rings Matthew Sweet and Doug Adams take a detailed look at the score for The Lord of the Rings. 28 mins ...

“Now she too loved the movie and all I’d done was add music.” As fellow filmmaker Guillermo Del Toro has observed: “Carpenter’s scores fluctuate with his films. Listen to them – they ...

Iconic horror director, writer, producer, and composer John ... For Carpenter fans, this will not be an event to miss. “I’ve been setting my nightmares, dreams and visions to music for a ...

John Carpenter is far more ... Overseeing his movies from their inception into the final editing stages, Carpenter is ...

John Carpenter the auteur made a proper debut with 1976’s Assault On Precinct 13—a taut, gritty thriller that has the lurid feel of an urban exploitation movie, but is distinctly old-fashioned ...

Back in ’76, Carpenter casually smashed stereotypes by ... and how DeMonaco indulges in othering cliches: John Leguizamo and Ja Rule have been cast as broadly comic hoodlum caricatures, while ...

Carpenter completed Vampires in 1998. The film garnered him his second Saturn Award from the Academy of Science Fiction, Horror and Fantasy, for Best Music. It also won awards for his cast and ...

January 19, 2025 at 2:00 p.m. ·6 min read The first thing you miss is the music. That funky ... In the dubious field of remaking John Carpenter movies (a matter on which the director himself has been ...