Month: January 2026

• January 23, 2026

  In the Mouth of Madness (1994)

  

  The third and final installment of our discussion of John Carpenter’s Apocalypse Trilogy, complete with iconic bus ride, iconic bike ride, and Charlton Heston, is a visceral descent into insanity, goaded on by the Elder Gods. Lovecraftian in every way, the film, for all there is to recommend it, is missing that special brand of…
• January 21, 2026

  Prince of Darkness (1987)

  

  In Prince of Darkness, Carpenter successfully integrates the beats of a story that would otherwise comfortably accommodate an expansion of the Cthulhu mythos into a vision of the end of creation painted with the broad strokes of Christian eschatology and extraterrestrial speculation. The result is a dread-heavy piece of existential horror and a profoundly haunting…
• January 10, 2026

  The Thing (1982)

  

  Ennio Morricone’s score and John Carpenter’s best directorial tendencies combine for bleak re-imaging of 1951’s “The Thing from Another World.” The same oppressive hopelessness that pervades this film will be put to work again in “Prince of Darkness” five years later. Our discussion: Youtube Acast