In this edition, listen to a pro drummer review drumming scenes in movies, learn differences between They Live and the short story it's based on, and more.
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Waxwork Records revealed a new They Live Spinature of the grotesque Politician just in time for Election Day. Check it out here.
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Put on your sunglasses and get ready to rock out to the They Live vinyl soundtrack from Mondo, arriving this month.
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John Carpenter took a break from playign video games and just hinted at potential They Live sequel. Put on these magic sunglasses to read all about it.
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Check out the line-up of Gallery 1988 Super Secret Fun Club artwork that gives some of your favorite characters from movies and television the Garbage Pail Kids treatment. Others gets some cool little figures and enamel pins.
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The new John Carpenter Album Anthology: Movie Themes 1974-1998 finds the horror master recreating some of his classic movie themes, including Halloween.
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We celebrate the career of one of the greatest filmmakers of all time by ranking all eighteen of John Carpenter's movies.
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Another year, another glow in the dark art show at New York City's Bottleneck Gallery. Last year's event drew massive crowds, there to admire pop culture art made with glow in the dark inks, and this year should be more of the same. When The Lights Go Out 2 opens Saturday March 22 and remains…
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Is your pop culture art collection cluttered with too many huge movie posters? Do you have a full stack of 27 x 40 inch paper laying around and not enough wall space to display? Are you looking for something smaller, more tasteful but still as awesome and exciting? Mike Mitchell is here to help. Mitchell…
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Los Angeles film fans, April and May is a great time to live in the City of Angels. One of the many reasons is the return of the Hero Complex Film Festival, which takes place from May 10-12 at the Chinese Theater in Hollywood. In previous years, stars such as Malcolm McDowell, Warren Beatty, Christopher…
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The fact that John Carpenter's They Live is a commentary on consumption, subliminal messages and propaganda isn't some kind of radical statement. In fact, it's the opposite of that. But when you put Nintendo's Super Mario in the mix, things get a little bit more interesting. That's what artist Fernando Reza has done with a…
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This Friday, Gallery 1988 in Los Angeles will hold the fifth Crazy 4 Cult art show, an annual exhibition which I've called the super bowl of pop culture art. The great guys at G1988 have given me a bunch of art from the show to premiere on the site. We posted part one here. After…
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If you know anything about artist Shepard Fairey or John Carpenter's film They Live, you'd be hard pressed to come up with a better marriage of artist and material. For the first time ever, the Alamo Drafthouse and their art boutique Mondo were able to get Fairey to create a poster and, of course, they…
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Twice this week we've offered up VOTDs sourced from the Alamo Drafthouse, but how can we not highlight some great movie-related clips? The 'Angry Caller' anti-texting PSA we showed you on Monday really exploded over the internet in the past few days, to the point where Anderson Cooper featured it on his show, calling Drafthouse…
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Last we heard from director Matt Reeves, he promised that a Cloverfield sequel was coming. That might still be the case, but it won't be the next film for the director of Cloverfield and Let Me In. Reeves will next write and direct a film based on the Ray Nelson short story 8 O’Clock in…
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Much to the chagrin of some fans, the films of John Carpenter are proving to be fertile ground for remakes and offshoots. Halloween, The Thing and Escape From New York are just a sampling. Along with the developing plans for Escape From New York, there may at some point be a new version of They…
Read MoreChop Shop has a new t-shirt designed by Timo Meyer which takes 22 classic 80's films reduced to symbols and arranged into the form of an eight. Hit the jump to see the full design in larger resolution. T-shirts are available for $20 on ChopShopStore.com.
Read MorePajiba has edited another wonderful montage of movie clips, this time compiling the 100 greatest movie insults of all time in under 10 minutes. Watch the video now embedded after the jump. Films included in the montage: Roxanne, Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Gleaming the Cube, The Princess Bride, A Fish Called Wanda,…
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25-year-old Massachusetts-based graphic artist Brandon Schaefer has created an impressive collection of retro-minimal movie posters. The Ghostbusters-inspired posters above have been making the internet rounds recently, but Schaefer has a huge portfolio of posters, some of which can even be purchased as prints on inPRNT.com. Check out some of his posters, after the jump. [gallery…
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Strike Entertainment is in talks to acquire rights to remake John Carpenter's 1988 cult film They Live. Based on Ray Nelson's 1963 short story "Eight O’Clock in the Morning", They Live was part sci-fi thriller and part black comedy. Pro wrestler Rowdy Roddy Piper played a down-on-his-luck construction worker who discovered a pair of special…
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With one of the choicest "stranded on an island with entertainment center" filmographies, genre or otherwise, director John Carpenter is without a doubt a fave here at Slashfilm. Next month, the man himself will be on hand for two out of four nights to wax awesome on his various '80s era classics at a film…
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