Fun fact: The name of the distributor for the UK market for the film (the film was a huge hit in the UK) was a man named Michael Myers, calling The Shape that in Halloween was his way of saying thanks to him.
Original Assault on Precinct 13 is the Most Badass/ powerful thriller film by John Carpenter with excellent direction by John Carpenter, great/ likable cast of characters of the film, there intimidating/ menacing gang cholos of the movie main villains and way better villains than the dirty cops villain's in the remake, have very tense/ crazy shootouts scenes, & very killer soundtrack by Carpenter, I love this badass movie next to Christine, & The Fog.
I bought this movie and the remake at a GameStop back in 2006. I used to watch the shit out of this movie back in the day. I brought it over to my friends’ house for a watch, because they were huge John Carpenter fans. The three scenes we remember the most are the “vanilla twist” kill with the girl, “Chaney Just Fell Down”, and the “potatoes” scene. To this day, we still don’t know how to play “Potatoes” 😂
It’s a great movie overall displaying the atmosphere of 1976 L.A. in a very real way. The main character cop walks out of his nice condo looking around him before getting in the car. And that nice condo in Little Armenia near Glendale probably worth more over two million today, but probably worth $30,000 in 1976 dollars. He drives all around waiting for assignment and gets more than he’s bargained for.
I'm proud to say I was the makeup artist on the picture, a big break for me. Without a doubt, John Carpenter is the most organized director I ever worked for. He knew every shot he wanted when he walked on the set in the morning, which made the shoot pure pleasure. I remember the night we shot the exteriors around the precinct building. It was so cold that we had to use an RV which had heat so the makeup could be applied and poor Tony Burton had to be sprayed constantly to look like he was sweating, with not a word about the cold. The entire cast was like that and every one of them was terrific to work with. It was one the experiences of a lifetime. I also recall that we bought gallons of makeup blood for many of the scenes.
Yeah it’s really up there in the realm of Citizen Kane, and 2001 Space Odyssey, and Apocalypse Now, and The Godfather, and Vertigo, and Casablanca, and Goodfellas, and Pulp Fiction. You always here it brought up when those films are discussed...
He made a ridiculously low-budget sci-fi movie before employing future star Dan O’Bannon and a group of USC students as the stars and it worked! Just like Eraserhead!
@@jamesmorant1406 He co wrote and Directed and did the sound for Halloween which was independently produced by his writing partner. This movie had nothing to do with him “Getting Halloween.” The film would’ve of came out regardless.....
@@gregoryseager9191 ive read his biography watched 3 different documentary’s on his various works The Fog, Halloween, band Escape From New York.I’ve Followed his career closely and read tons of information on him and in film school we deconstructed Halloween frame by frame and I do remember reading somewhere that Dark Star started out as a student film project when he attended USC but can find no information online on it currently which completely puzzles me. I also remember reading that Dark Star is one of Quentin Tarantinos top 10 favorite movies from the 70’s which is pretty bizarre considering all of the smash hits the 70’s served up!
I think I read before that it hit UK cinemas and that also massively helped it. For some reason it connected with UK audiences. I personally love the movie, and Carpenter is a genuine master of his craft.
First saw this completely by accident when I was a kid in the mid 90’s. I used to videotape things if they were on late at night and go to sleep whilst it recorded then watch it back the next day, well one night I pressed record for something I don’t even remember and Assault on Precinct 13 was on afterwards and it recorded that too. Something drawn me towards the movie even though I was only about 8/9 years old and didn’t completely understand the storyline at the time. I’m 32 now and still love it to this day .
Consider this one of the all time classics in the genre. There isn’t a moment that is bad and is one of those movies you start, and before you know it the credits are rolling. Big trouble in little china also has the same effect on me. Totally engaging films
I saw this when it came out as a little kid. The part where the little girl gets blown away near the ice cream truck left an indelible mark on me back then. Probably the reason I ultimately got into horror flicks. lol That was brutal to watch as a seven or eight year kid. Made me rethink how I approached ice cream trucks for awhile. Overall, this movie is obviously dated, but it's still very good and worth the viewing for anyone that hasn't seen it. Typical Carpenter.
@@ice9557 There was no spoiler. What I mentioned was in this video clip. Unless you didn't watch it and only read the comments here, that would probably make more sense from your point of view.
Typical Carpenter, you mean greatness. Almost everything he had any part of was fantastic. By far my favorite director and made some of the best movies ever .
The fire I watched this as a kid in the late 80’s on TV with parents and little brother, I didn’t totally get all the references yet but I knew it was a great film. One of our absolute faves and in my opinion one Carpenter’s very best.
This is a cracking film and one of the many reasons why I love John Carpenter's work. The way Assault and Halloween are shot is amazing. The camerawork makes the film look much more expensive. And the cast just kill it.
I just watched this movie for the first time the other day, and I loved it. It doesn't pretend to be something it's not, and it doesn't bite off more than it can chew. It's the very definition of a simple concept delivered effectively. We need more movies like this.
The little girl set the tone in this movie. If she hadn’t been such an ungrateful brat, she and her dad could have gotten their relative out of that neighborhood, moved on, and the siege of the police station would have never happened!
Can that Gibson interview be found here on YT or read online? I'd love to hear his views. Theres an amazing interview on here when Gibson was promoting Conspiracy Theory and he talks about all the sinister stuff that was going on in Hollywood when he was just becoming famous and he mentions a bizarre encounter with Christopher Walken. I think it was one of Mel's friends interviewing him because he wasn't as awkward or frustrated as he usually was in interviews back then
I operate under the impression Bishop was disliked and setup and I don’t see it discussed ever. The other cops knew that place was going to be attacked and the process of him being sent there is shady.
One of the best shootout movies of all time! Assault on Precinct 13 is an all time classic. Napoleon Wilson is that dude! As a kid i always emulated that stoic yet sarcastic and facetious attitude of his. One of my favorite movie characters.
For everyone who likes this movie, I highly recommend VFW. It's the same premise, just with a veterans bar instead of a police precint. It's a great 80s callback - with a cast containing the likes of Stephen Lang, Fred Williamson, William Sadler, Martin Kove and David Patrick Kelly - and clearly influenced by Carpenters overall atmosphere and style. It's also a lot more violent and filled with great practical gore effects. A really good time if you're in the mood for a siege movie.
My Opinion the Movie John Carpenter's Assault on Precinct 13 is one of his Underrated Movies if you ask me but i love this kind of Horror Movie i know it's not really Horror but for me yes it is Horror 😎👍
Me, too. I recorded it on VHS an HBO movie shown after midnight around 1987. I had it for years and probably still have the VHS in my basement somewhere.
Thanks for the video. Love this movie. You undersold Nancy Loomis subsequent works with JC. She played Dr. Chalis' wife in H3 SOTW and the mayor's assistant in The Fog. Also, yes score is iconic, but to only mention Halloween is a fail, as The Fog, Prince of Darkness and H3, are also three of the greatest movie scores of all-time.
Although I liked the remake, i think the original is actually darker due to the fact that it is criminals assaulting the precinct, not corrupt cops. The fact that this gang has zero Fs about isolating this group of cops, blocking the streets, and gunning them down in the open is more frightening than corrupt cops just trying to safe their own asses.
I interpret this film as Bishop being setup to die by the other corrupt cops who don’t like him and know an attack is imminent. The film doesn’t beat you over the head with it but if you pay attention to how the other police end up getting him sent there you can see it.
From Austin Stoker's wiki: "This was one of the few heroic starring roles for a black actor in an action film of the 1970s outside of the blaxploitation genre." Today we take this for granted. Ps would love to own the black dodge the baddies cruise around in.
This movie was hilarious. I never knew that street gangs operated on the same logic as mindless repetitive zombies, throwing themselves in front of bullets in wave after wave, regardless of what happened to the previous ones.
🤣🤣🤣 I loved this movie as a kid but the older I got the more I was confused as to Who was the mindless multi Racial Los Angeles Street Gang that operates like a 1968 Vietcong suicide Squad 🤣🤣🤣
What I’m wondering is were there really multiracial street gangs in L.A. back then with no personality, heart, or any kind of values at all that just killed random people they felt like doing to?
One of the first JC films I watched. Austin Stoker, Darwin Joston and especially Laurie Zimmer (her character was great) made this film (a diverse cast in 1976, how? There's never been one prior to 2016🤣). Their characters were each uniquely interesting. Whereas the remake gave too much explanation as to why the attackers were there, this film keeps mystery. The gangs are causing problems, police kill gang members, gang members go after the girls dad. No negotiating, no reasoning. The gang members are scary and ruthless for this reason, just look at the ice cream van scene. The siege aspect could akin to any zombie movie. I think this gets overlooked by Halloween, The Thing and BTILC but definitely up there for me with JC's greats.
Just watched this move last night on TH-cam for the nth time - one of the all time greats (first watched it way back in 1981). Biggest takeaway this time - the policeman having to actually wind up and wind down the car windows😀
well, Halloween actually debuted in my hometown of Kansas City, then made the circuit. Why KC is still a mystery to me, but it was nice catching it opening night at the tender age of 11, and with no trailer or buzz I was clueless walking in what to expect. Been a JC and Halloween fan ever since
"Rio Bravo(1959) Directed by Howard Hawks is the best western ever made. I've remade Rio Bravo disguised as alien invasion movies and horror films. Assault On Precinct 13 is based on Rio Bravo, it's the source. Don't take my word for it, ask Quentin Tarantino. He'll insist that you see it." -John Carpenter Here's a video of John Carpenter discussing Rio Bravo on TCM: th-cam.com/video/ogCYLbqDq6Y/w-d-xo.html Rio Bravo is definitely one of the best Westerns ever made(one of my all-time favorite films) and its influence on John Carpenter's career and directorial style cannot be underestimated. To quote John Carpenter, "I got into this business to make Westerns, and I got tyepcast as a horror director after Halloween." That's John being modest really considering he still became a master of cinema and instilled his own style into his works, which happens to be a mixture of his two favorite genres, Westerns and Horror, and he would add his own unique Auteur spin on it. As JoBlo pointed out, Assault On Precinct 13 is a combination of Rio Bravo and George Romero's iconic horror film Night Of The Living Dead. Hence why the Enemies in Assault behave and attack like Zombies, that was Carpenter's signature twist. Many of John Carpenter's Action Movies are a blend of Horror and Western themes anyway such as Assault On Precinct 13, Escape From New York, They Live, Vampires, etc. He does it really well just looking at that list of film accomplishments. What I really like about John Carpenter is that he always talks about in interviews his admiration for someone he met and got lectured by in College. That's Howard Hawks, one of the greatest American Filmmakers of all time, who made an unprecedented amount of amazing classic films like Scarface 1932, Only Angels Have Wings, Sergeant York, The Big Sleep, Red River, and of course Rio Bravo, to name a few. The original 1951 version of The Thing was also a Howard Hawks film that Carpenter had huge admiration for and remade it into a 1980s masterpiece of a 1950s classic as well. My point is that John Carpenter wears his influences on his sleeves whether it be Howard Hawks or John Ford, Alfred Hitchcock or George Romero and makes it his own style, the John Carpenter style. He studied some of the all time great Filmmakers and in turn, became an all time great Filmmaker, revolutionizing the Horror, Action, and Sci-Fi genre. That's pretty cool if you ask me.
Normally I hate remakes of a classic but the new version was good, mainly from changing the setting to Detroit in a blizzard. However, the scene in the original that always stuck with me was the little girl murdered at the ice cream truck. Shocked the hell out of me on first viewing.
for me, one of Carpenters very best. i always see it as a kind of zombie film. the way the scenes of attack are staged, i was reminded a lot of Romero's "living dead" films. the feeling that the mass of relentless, emotionless, apparently mindless killers use almost military strategy and training seems an acknowledgment. Returned Vietnam war soldiers shellshocked, alienated from and by the society they returned to, wanting to lash out against institutions.
The little girl being shot in the movie was a scene I could do without. Fat too intense. I also know that it was integral to the movie, but a young girl? Especially when it was originally filmed. Still a great movie.
A much better "remake" is the 2001 French film 'Nid de guêpes' ('The Nest'). Its cast had great chemistry and the direction by Florent-Emilio Siri ('Hostage') is solid. Still...nothing beats the OG.
This is one of my favorite movies, ever! The actors are familiar faces at best and one note, but this movie worked! The tone in this movie was set because a group of heartless, interracial gang members with no personality decided to go around in their territory and kill random people because police killed some of their people. They had automatic weapons stolen. So they go around their neighborhood to find people to kill and an ice cream truck vendor is their target. A little girl and her father are in that area looking for a relative to get out of there and when he stops to make a phone call to find the relatives place, the girl goes up to the ice cream man distracting him from the gang members driving around. It works because their leader attacks and kills him and kills her for being a minor distraction. The girls father finds her dead body, the almost dead ice cream truck driver tells him where his gun is, he chases the gang members in his Lincoln Town car in their AMC Matador and kills the man that killed his daughter. After that, it sets the tone for the movie. I would have been more satisfied if the leader had died worse, but he died just as stoic as his personality. Anyway, it’s the best suspense movie I ever saw!
well thats how movies are crime/horror/scifi/drama they all the same there has to be a reason and horror movies are pretty big on it. like get out the spooky big but then have to have a reason to go back in or get into the car and it wont start or or make a phone call and there is no signal or the battery gose dead its the same in all movies it has to be something to make the movie prolonger.
A film from 1983 copied it. Siege. But the film is fcking awesome and Carpenter borrowed one of the actors for In the Mouth of Madness. I bet you didn't get that one!
Nothing happened to it, it simply became a cult classic and for those who actually saw it when it was released at the cinema, they knew it was great, only the fools (who didn't even see it) said it was bad.
The original didn’t even have B-list actors. The girl from the Witch Mountain movies, the man from Halloween and Major League, and Duke from the Rocky movies was it for somewhat knowns.
No, some minor actor named Martin West. He wasn’t even 40 years old when he made this and looked 60. But it makes sense. He could run when he found out his daughter was killed. I’m 55 and can’t run at all.
Pretty sure most people still hate Ghost Of Mars, that movie is beyond terrible. You're an outlier here, no one likes this movie even ironically i refuse to believe that.
The remake had a bigger budget and bigger names but it didn’t have the same energy or atmosphere as the original.
Agreed 🎉
TBH it weren't bad, for a remake, above average generic action shooter ... JC is a classic, music, mood, melodrama (haha), murderous movie.
Exactly. I did enjoy it, but the original had a more suspenseful and gritty look as well as a feel. This movie is so underrated.
Modern remakes can never reproduce the feel of the 70s era films. Modern film is way too overprodudced.
all the John Carpenter's remakes are bad and I have seen none of them.
Fun fact: The name of the distributor for the UK market for the film (the film was a huge hit in the UK) was a man named Michael Myers, calling The Shape that in Halloween was his way of saying thanks to him.
Wow didn't know that
Original Assault on Precinct 13 is the Most Badass/ powerful thriller film by John Carpenter with excellent direction by John Carpenter, great/ likable cast of characters of the film, there intimidating/ menacing gang cholos of the movie main villains and way better villains than the dirty cops villain's in the remake, have very tense/ crazy shootouts scenes, & very killer soundtrack by Carpenter, I love this badass movie next to Christine, & The Fog.
I bought this movie and the remake at a GameStop back in 2006. I used to watch the shit out of this movie back in the day. I brought it over to my friends’ house for a watch, because they were huge John Carpenter fans. The three scenes we remember the most are the “vanilla twist” kill with the girl, “Chaney Just Fell Down”, and the “potatoes” scene. To this day, we still don’t know how to play “Potatoes” 😂
Potatoes became rock paper scissors.
@@jondstewartGot a smoke?
The little nervous chuckle Nancy loomis let’s out when she sees he “fell”
It’s a great movie overall displaying the atmosphere of 1976 L.A. in a very real way. The main character cop walks out of his nice condo looking around him before getting in the car. And that nice condo in Little Armenia near Glendale probably worth more over two million today, but probably worth $30,000 in 1976 dollars. He drives all around waiting for assignment and gets more than he’s bargained for.
I'm proud to say I was the makeup artist on the picture, a big break for me. Without a doubt, John Carpenter is the most organized director I ever worked for. He knew every shot he wanted when he walked on the set in the morning, which made the shoot pure pleasure. I remember the night we shot the exteriors around the precinct building. It was so cold that we had to use an RV which had heat so the makeup could be applied and poor Tony Burton had to be sprayed constantly to look like he was sweating, with not a word about the cold. The entire cast was like that and every one of them was terrific to work with. It was one the experiences of a lifetime. I also recall that we bought gallons of makeup blood for many of the scenes.
One of the greatest movies ever made. John Carpenter the best director, how he could make a movie this good for such a low budget is ridiculous.
He learned from Roger Corman.
Passion over profit ^^
Yeah it’s really up there in the realm of Citizen Kane, and 2001 Space Odyssey, and Apocalypse Now, and The Godfather, and Vertigo, and Casablanca, and Goodfellas, and Pulp Fiction. You always here it brought up when those films are discussed...
Hear***
He made a ridiculously low-budget sci-fi movie before employing future star Dan O’Bannon and a group of USC students as the stars and it worked! Just like Eraserhead!
What a great start for John Carpenter's career the suspense the action the performances and the shocking moment when the little girl got killed wow
Start??? His first movie was Dark Star....
@ICE 9 I know but this movie got great reviews and got him the Halloween job
@@jamesmorant1406 He co wrote and Directed and did the sound for Halloween which was independently produced by his writing partner. This movie had nothing to do with him “Getting Halloween.” The film would’ve of came out regardless.....
@@ice9557 If I remember Dark Star started out as a short student film then expanded into a full film. Still a mad film. :)
@@gregoryseager9191 ive read his biography watched 3 different documentary’s on his various works The Fog, Halloween, band Escape From New York.I’ve Followed his career closely and read tons of information on him and in film school we deconstructed Halloween frame by frame and I do remember reading somewhere that Dark Star started out as a student film project when he attended USC but can find no information online on it currently which completely puzzles me. I also remember reading that Dark Star is one of Quentin Tarantinos top 10 favorite movies from the 70’s which is pretty bizarre considering all of the smash hits the 70’s served up!
Saw this back in the 70s as a kid. Fell in love with Laurie Zimmer. Such a great movie.
I think I read before that it hit UK cinemas and that also massively helped it. For some reason it connected with UK audiences. I personally love the movie, and Carpenter is a genuine master of his craft.
First saw this completely by accident when I was a kid in the mid 90’s.
I used to videotape things if they were on late at night and go to sleep whilst it recorded then watch it back the next day, well one night I pressed record for something I don’t even remember and Assault on Precinct 13 was on afterwards and it recorded that too.
Something drawn me towards the movie even though I was only about 8/9 years old and didn’t completely understand the storyline at the time. I’m 32 now and still love it to this day .
Consider this one of the all time classics in the genre. There isn’t a moment that is bad and is one of those movies you start, and before you know it the credits are rolling. Big trouble in little china also has the same effect on me. Totally engaging films
I saw this when it came out as a little kid. The part where the little girl gets blown away near the ice cream truck left an indelible mark on me back then. Probably the reason I ultimately got into horror flicks. lol That was brutal to watch as a seven or eight year kid. Made me rethink how I approached ice cream trucks for awhile. Overall, this movie is obviously dated, but it's still very good and worth the viewing for anyone that hasn't seen it. Typical Carpenter.
Thanks for the spoiler
@@ice9557 There was no spoiler. What I mentioned was in this video clip. Unless you didn't watch it and only read the comments here, that would probably make more sense from your point of view.
@@ice9557 Best not tell you, there is no Easter Bunny then ... haha ... FFS did you bother to watch the clip ...
@@daviddowsett1658 did you watch the anatomy of a Sock Cucker?
Typical Carpenter, you mean greatness. Almost everything he had any part of was fantastic. By far my favorite director and made some of the best movies ever .
The fire I watched this as a kid in the late 80’s on TV with parents and little brother, I didn’t totally get all the references yet but I knew it was a great film. One of our absolute faves and in my opinion one Carpenter’s very best.
This is a cracking film and one of the many reasons why I love John Carpenter's work. The way Assault and Halloween are shot is amazing. The camerawork makes the film look much more expensive. And the cast just kill it.
My Top Favorite John Carpenter film and one of my Top 💯 Favorite Films of All Time, with The Thing coming a very close second!
"I wanted a Vanilla Twist."
"You're getting Strawberry!"
JonTron!
I just watched this movie for the first time the other day, and I loved it. It doesn't pretend to be something it's not, and it doesn't bite off more than it can chew. It's the very definition of a simple concept delivered effectively. We need more movies like this.
Bravo on the video, absolutely stellar work! I've loved this movie since I first saw it at the age of 17 and I really appreciate your great take on it
Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you
You can feel the hunger and love for movies in Precinct 13...
The death of the little girl is harrowing and unforgettable. It mirrors the violence that happens in real life today. Mel Gibson even talked about it.
The little girl set the tone in this movie. If she hadn’t been such an ungrateful brat, she and her dad could have gotten their relative out of that neighborhood, moved on, and the siege of the police station would have never happened!
Can that Gibson interview be found here on YT or read online? I'd love to hear his views. Theres an amazing interview on here when Gibson was promoting Conspiracy Theory and he talks about all the sinister stuff that was going on in Hollywood when he was just becoming famous and he mentions a bizarre encounter with Christopher Walken. I think it was one of Mel's friends interviewing him because he wasn't as awkward or frustrated as he usually was in interviews back then
@@laurarules3642 you’ve lost me with your statement.
I operate under the impression Bishop was disliked and setup and I don’t see it discussed ever. The other cops knew that place was going to be attacked and the process of him being sent there is shady.
One of the best shootout movies of all time! Assault on Precinct 13 is an all time classic. Napoleon Wilson is that dude! As a kid i always emulated that stoic yet sarcastic and facetious attitude of his. One of my favorite movie characters.
Just saw this in the theater the other night. Good timing.
For everyone who likes this movie, I highly recommend VFW. It's the same premise, just with a veterans bar instead of a police precint. It's a great 80s callback - with a cast containing the likes of Stephen Lang, Fred Williamson, William Sadler, Martin Kove and David Patrick Kelly - and clearly influenced by Carpenters overall atmosphere and style. It's also a lot more violent and filled with great practical gore effects. A really good time if you're in the mood for a siege movie.
My Opinion the Movie John Carpenter's Assault on Precinct 13 is one of his Underrated Movies if you ask me but i love this kind of Horror Movie i know it's not really Horror but for me yes it is Horror 😎👍
100% agree. Its ahead of its time like almost everything he does
It is! A group of horrible gang members with no sympathy whatsoever willing to kill and siege a police station at any cost over one man.
@@jondstewart True
CLASSIC FILM Sadly we cant have films like this any more !
It really is sad and depressing what's happened to the entertainment industry.
They made a remake of this nearly 20 years ago.
yea but not has good has the original @@TheMrHavish
I remember watching this movie late night on cable back in the day.
Cool😊
Me, too. I recorded it on VHS an HBO movie shown
after midnight around 1987. I had it for years and probably still have the VHS in my basement somewhere.
Me too, late night movie on one of the belgian channels we also received in the Netherlands somewhere in the 90's.
Thanks for the video. Love this movie. You undersold Nancy Loomis subsequent works with JC. She played Dr. Chalis' wife in H3 SOTW and the mayor's assistant in The Fog. Also, yes score is iconic, but to only mention Halloween is a fail, as The Fog, Prince of Darkness and H3, are also three of the greatest movie scores of all-time.
My favorite Carpenter movie.
Wait... What!? Carpenter won an Academy Award for a short film while he was STILL in college?? A student film??
My all-time favourite John Carpenter film.
Agreed! Dark Star comes in a close second.
Other than Halloween- mine is Escape From New York
And the Fog at 3
I don't know why Hollywood was always messing with John Carpenter but it proves they don't know jack about what the people want to see.
I didn't see this film until last year (please forgive me) and loved it. It was a total balls-to-the-wall movie and told you no one was safe.
Loved this film since I was 10 ☺️
42 now
Debra Hill is amazing producer... I see why he liked her a lot
As a UK alum, love how you mention WKU and show UK campus Funkhäuser building……1:15
Although I liked the remake, i think the original is actually darker due to the fact that it is criminals assaulting the precinct, not corrupt cops. The fact that this gang has zero Fs about isolating this group of cops, blocking the streets, and gunning them down in the open is more frightening than corrupt cops just trying to safe their own asses.
I interpret this film as Bishop being setup to die by the other corrupt cops who don’t like him and know an attack is imminent. The film doesn’t beat you over the head with it but if you pay attention to how the other police end up getting him sent there you can see it.
Kim Richards is not the woman in the meme image, its Taylor Armstrong.
They did appear in the series together but its not Kim in the image.
Just looked it up and apparently the brunette in the meme is Kyle Richards, Kim Richards sister
From Austin Stoker's wiki: "This was one of the few heroic starring roles for a black actor in an action film of the 1970s outside of the blaxploitation genre." Today we take this for granted.
Ps would love to own the black dodge the baddies cruise around in.
Such a unique movie for it's time.
"Anybody got a smoke?"
Oh wow this is so weird!! I was just thinking about this movie yesterday!
$100k budget?
Most decent 5 minute TH-cam videos cost more than that today
Napoleon Wilson was early Snake Pliskin imo. Great flick.
Every one of his main characters are the same person
I love lovelove love this movie since I was a kid.
This movie was hilarious. I never knew that street gangs operated on the same logic as mindless repetitive zombies, throwing themselves in front of bullets in wave after wave, regardless of what happened to the previous ones.
🤣🤣🤣 I loved this movie as a kid but the older I got the more I was confused as to Who was the mindless multi Racial Los Angeles Street Gang that operates like a 1968 Vietcong suicide Squad 🤣🤣🤣
What I’m wondering is were there really multiracial street gangs in L.A. back then with no personality, heart, or any kind of values at all that just killed random people they felt like doing to?
Such a great film
I've been patiently waiting for this to come out on 4K. I wish they'd hurry up as I'm dying to see this again
great video
One of the first JC films I watched. Austin Stoker, Darwin Joston and especially Laurie Zimmer (her character was great) made this film (a diverse cast in 1976, how? There's never been one prior to 2016🤣). Their characters were each uniquely interesting.
Whereas the remake gave too much explanation as to why the attackers were there, this film keeps mystery. The gangs are causing problems, police kill gang members, gang members go after the girls dad. No negotiating, no reasoning. The gang members are scary and ruthless for this reason, just look at the ice cream van scene. The siege aspect could akin to any zombie movie.
I think this gets overlooked by Halloween, The Thing and BTILC but definitely up there for me with JC's greats.
Night of the living dead had an African American protagonist
Just watched this move last night on TH-cam for the nth time - one of the all time greats (first watched it way back in 1981). Biggest takeaway this time - the policeman having to actually wind up and wind down the car windows😀
Love this movie
the link to the woman screaming at cat meme just blew my fucking mind
well, Halloween actually debuted in my hometown of Kansas City, then made the circuit. Why KC is still a mystery to me, but it was nice catching it opening night at the tender age of 11, and with no trailer or buzz I was clueless walking in what to expect. Been a JC and Halloween fan ever since
"Rio Bravo(1959) Directed by Howard Hawks is the best western ever made. I've remade Rio Bravo disguised as alien invasion movies and horror films. Assault On Precinct 13 is based on Rio Bravo, it's the source. Don't take my word for it, ask Quentin Tarantino. He'll insist that you see it." -John Carpenter
Here's a video of John Carpenter discussing Rio Bravo on TCM: th-cam.com/video/ogCYLbqDq6Y/w-d-xo.html
Rio Bravo is definitely one of the best Westerns ever made(one of my all-time favorite films) and its influence on John Carpenter's career and directorial style cannot be underestimated. To quote John Carpenter, "I got into this business to make Westerns, and I got tyepcast as a horror director after Halloween." That's John being modest really considering he still became a master of cinema and instilled his own style into his works, which happens to be a mixture of his two favorite genres, Westerns and Horror, and he would add his own unique Auteur spin on it. As JoBlo pointed out, Assault On Precinct 13 is a combination of Rio Bravo and George Romero's iconic horror film Night Of The Living Dead. Hence why the Enemies in Assault behave and attack like Zombies, that was Carpenter's signature twist. Many of John Carpenter's Action Movies are a blend of Horror and Western themes anyway such as Assault On Precinct 13, Escape From New York, They Live, Vampires, etc. He does it really well just looking at that list of film accomplishments.
What I really like about John Carpenter is that he always talks about in interviews his admiration for someone he met and got lectured by in College. That's Howard Hawks, one of the greatest American Filmmakers of all time, who made an unprecedented amount of amazing classic films like Scarface 1932, Only Angels Have Wings, Sergeant York, The Big Sleep, Red River, and of course Rio Bravo, to name a few.
The original 1951 version of The Thing was also a Howard Hawks film that Carpenter had huge admiration for and remade it into a 1980s masterpiece of a 1950s classic as well.
My point is that John Carpenter wears his influences on his sleeves whether it be Howard Hawks or John Ford, Alfred Hitchcock or George Romero and makes it his own style, the John Carpenter style. He studied some of the all time great Filmmakers and in turn, became an all time great Filmmaker, revolutionizing the Horror, Action, and Sci-Fi genre. That's pretty cool if you ask me.
Darwin Joston was John Carpenter’s neighbor. He was also the skittish pencil
factory attendant Paul in Eraserhead.
Normally I hate remakes of a classic but the new version was good, mainly from changing the setting to Detroit in a blizzard.
However, the scene in the original that always stuck with me was the little girl murdered at the ice cream truck. Shocked the hell out of me on first viewing.
I had no idea John carpenter directed Big trouble in little China that’s one of my favorite movies.
Bro… I know he hasn’t done a movie in quite some time but I really wish he would do one more!
The precinct 13 building looks like the Central City police department building on the 90's Flash TV show.
for me, one of Carpenters very best. i always see it as a kind of zombie film. the way the scenes of attack are staged, i was reminded a lot of Romero's "living dead" films. the feeling that the mass of relentless, emotionless, apparently mindless killers use almost military strategy and training seems an acknowledgment. Returned Vietnam war soldiers shellshocked, alienated from and by the society they returned to, wanting to lash out against institutions.
Yeah definitely has a survival horror feel to it.
Definitely
Is the character Napoleon supposed to be so enigmatic or is there some deeper meaning with his character and name came that I can’t figure out?
Good question. He comes
across as intelligent man with a very sarcastic streak. I don’t know if he was based on anybody.
The little girl being shot in the movie was a scene I could do without. Fat too intense. I also know that it was integral to the movie, but a young girl? Especially when it was originally filmed.
Still a great movie.
A much better "remake" is the 2001 French film 'Nid de guêpes' ('The Nest'). Its cast had great chemistry and the direction by Florent-Emilio Siri ('Hostage') is solid. Still...nothing beats the OG.
This feels like a prototype for Escape From New York
This is one of my favorite movies, ever! The actors are familiar faces at best and one note, but this movie worked! The tone in this movie was set because a group of heartless, interracial gang members with no personality decided to go around in their territory and kill random people because police killed some of their people. They had automatic weapons stolen. So they go around their neighborhood to find people to kill and an ice cream truck vendor is their target. A little girl and her father are in that area looking for a relative to get out of there and when he stops to make a phone call to find the relatives place, the girl goes up to the ice cream man distracting him from the gang members driving around. It works because their leader attacks and kills him and kills her for being a minor distraction. The girls father finds her dead body, the almost dead ice cream truck driver tells him where his gun is, he chases the gang members in his Lincoln Town car in their AMC Matador and kills the man that killed his daughter. After that, it sets the tone for the movie. I would have been more satisfied if the leader had died worse, but he died just as stoic as his personality.
Anyway, it’s the best suspense movie I ever saw!
We're almost out of toilet paper
Good movie 🎉
So random, just watched this two days ago 🤔😂
well thats how movies are crime/horror/scifi/drama they all the same there has to be a reason and horror movies are pretty big on it. like get out the spooky big but then have to have a reason to go back in or get into the car and it wont start or or make a phone call and there is no signal or the battery gose dead its the same in all movies it has to be something to make the movie prolonger.
This guy is such a masterful narrator, love it. And I've yet to see this movie! I'll have to track it down soon.
A film from 1983 copied it. Siege. But the film is fcking awesome and Carpenter borrowed one of the actors for In the Mouth of Madness. I bet you didn't get that one!
John Carpenter made other action classics Escape from New York and Big Trouble in Little China.
The nasty white warlord that killed the ice cream man and little girl was a vampire in Escape From New York. A skittish man in comparison.
Nothing happened to it, it simply became a cult classic and for those who actually saw it when it was released at the cinema, they knew it was great, only the fools (who didn't even see it) said it was bad.
Dark Star & Assault On Precinct 13 are not horror movies
But they’re good ones despite the amateurish acting!
The original was way better than the remake. The Remake just had A list Actors.
The original didn’t even have B-list actors. The girl from the Witch Mountain movies, the man from Halloween and Major League, and Duke from the Rocky movies was it for somewhat knowns.
Action!
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Im watchin it right no on tv..its like night of the living dead kinda
06:32 😂😂😂😂😂
wot a great movie
do natural born killers
No, it's trash.
@@Kthomasritchie its your right to have a wrong opinion
@@Kthomasritchie You got that right, buddy
I HAVEN'T SEEN IT BUT THE ORIGINAL IS STILL STANDS THE BEST OF TIME
Are you ok? You're talking like a text to speak app
I thought the dad waa played by Joe Biden
No, some minor actor named Martin West. He wasn’t even 40 years old when he made this and looked 60. But it makes sense. He could run when he found out his daughter was killed. I’m 55 and can’t run at all.
Remake is far far away from the mastery of the original assault....
That car is a Matador!!!
Pretty sure most people still hate Ghost Of Mars, that movie is beyond terrible. You're an outlier here, no one likes this movie even ironically i refuse to believe that.
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