Definitely agree with your thoughts about John being a rebel in the studio system. I've got 7 Carpenter features left to check out, In the Mouth of Madness, Assault on Precinct 13, Starman, Ghosts of Mars, Dark Star, Village of the Damned and Memoirs of an Invisible Man. I'll check them out eventually, but there's a couple in there that I'm not running to check out, Ghosts of Mars in particular 🤣🤣We spoke about it on the livestream but I'm an Escape from L.A. defender too! It's super fun. I feel the same way about The Fog, it's a solid film but the one that I find myself having the least to say about. Seeing Prince of Darkness in the top 4 makes me so happy! It's top 4 for me too! Definitely agree with the Fulci influence, as we spoke about on stream. My favourite Carpenter's definitely are Big Trouble in Little China, The Thing, Halloween and Prince of Darkness. All going for very different things, but excel at them incredibly well. Great video, Jackson!
The ward,the fog,escape from New York, they live, Halloween, the thing are the only ones I’ve seen. Would say Halloween is the best out of those with they live in second.
Great list for me the only ones I have seen other then the Halloween movies are fog which I really enjoyed but my fave is the masterpiece like you said is Halloween
No worries, Mike! There’s a bunch of these I think you’d enjoy if you haven’t seen them
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Great ranking, dude. My favorite Carpenter movies are : 1. The Thing 2. Escape from New York 3. They live 4. Big trouble in little China 5. Halloween 6. The Fog 7. Escape from L. A. 8. Christine 9. Vampires 10. Princes of darkness 11. In the mouth of madness
Great picks. I wish more people would put Escape from LA as high as 7. Underrated
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@@horsetoothcinema I agree with you. I love Snake Plissken, Kurt Russell and John Carpenter. For many years L. A. was in my top 3 favorite Carpenter movies but I grew to love other ones more.
Yeah I think Carpenter included almost the same themes in alot of his works, isolation, feeling like theres something outside your own environment that you cannot trust, something evil is out there, anti authoritarian sentiments. He rarely likes to talk about meaning in his movies but when he does you can tell what his movies are about. He grew up in feeling like an outsider in his little town, he said everything felt so strange, segregation laws etc. Most of his movies are about people that need to team up and put their diferentes aside, or about otherworldly ambiguous threats, he literally said that Michael Myers represents evil and that's why he doesn't die in the film, evil is everywhere, it can be in Antarctica or even in the "safe" american suburbs of the 70s
Cool video, nice ranking of films too. I grew up watching John Carpenter's movies and he is easily my favourite Director as he explores the human condition from unusual situations like Christine's relationship with a car from a human point of view. Corruption of Humanity is also a major theme in Carpenter's movies with Halloween, In The Mouth Of Madness, They Live, Christine, The Thing and Prince Of Darkness portraying this theme from different angles and situations. Some of my favourites are Escape from New York, Christine, Assault On Precinct 13, They Live, Prince Of Darkness, The Fog, Halloween, Starman, In The Mouth Of Madness, and his magnum opus...The Thing. The Thing is arguably my favourite Horror movie, quite often my favourite Sci-Fi movie, and definitely my favourite movie. The Thing is the pinnacle of practicle fx used in cinema and still looks as good today as they did in 1982. Thanks for making this video. Cheers.
@@horsetoothcinema let's collaborate sometime for sure! We can do a livestream or prerecord it or whatever. I'm all about the movie community as a whole and love hearing other thoughts and opinions on films.
I can get behind most of your choices except Prince of Darkness. I just watched it last night and the characters don’t stand out at all. And the score isn’t bad but it never changes and never stops. I’ve seen 11 of his movies and it’s my least favorite. Maybe it will change on rewatch.
@@randycunningham7318 I agree, it's one of his best and oddly underrated despite being loaded with all the Carpenter trademarks that instantly make it a superior movie. I don't get why some don't like it, it's one long mood piece like all his movies are it has atmosphere literally dripping everywhere.
Definitely agree with your thoughts about John being a rebel in the studio system. I've got 7 Carpenter features left to check out, In the Mouth of Madness, Assault on Precinct 13, Starman, Ghosts of Mars, Dark Star, Village of the Damned and Memoirs of an Invisible Man. I'll check them out eventually, but there's a couple in there that I'm not running to check out, Ghosts of Mars in particular 🤣🤣We spoke about it on the livestream but I'm an Escape from L.A. defender too! It's super fun. I feel the same way about The Fog, it's a solid film but the one that I find myself having the least to say about. Seeing Prince of Darkness in the top 4 makes me so happy! It's top 4 for me too! Definitely agree with the Fulci influence, as we spoke about on stream.
My favourite Carpenter's definitely are Big Trouble in Little China, The Thing, Halloween and Prince of Darkness. All going for very different things, but excel at them incredibly well.
Great video, Jackson!
I would have ranked Big Trouble in Little China higher but aside from that this has to be the most accurate John Carpenter ranking I've seen on TH-cam
Starman before Escape From New York... Shocked.
The ward,the fog,escape from New York, they live, Halloween, the thing are the only ones I’ve seen. Would say Halloween is the best out of those with they live in second.
I haven’t found a single TH-camr doing a Carpenter ranking who’s covered Elvis or Someone’s Watching Me. It’s a damn shame.
Great list for me the only ones I have seen other then the Halloween movies are fog which I really enjoyed but my fave is the masterpiece like you said is Halloween
Very cool hearing your thoughts, JACKSON!
I haven’t seen every Carpenter movie, so I can’t comment too much on the ranking 🙂
No worries, Mike! There’s a bunch of these I think you’d enjoy if you haven’t seen them
Great ranking, dude.
My favorite Carpenter movies are :
1. The Thing
2. Escape from New York
3. They live
4. Big trouble in little China
5. Halloween
6. The Fog
7. Escape from L. A.
8. Christine
9. Vampires
10. Princes of darkness
11. In the mouth of madness
Great picks. I wish more people would put Escape from LA as high as 7. Underrated
@@horsetoothcinema I agree with you. I love Snake Plissken, Kurt Russell and John Carpenter. For many years L. A. was in my top 3 favorite Carpenter movies but I grew to love other ones more.
Starman very very underrated one if my favorites
Yeah I think Carpenter included almost the same themes in alot of his works, isolation, feeling like theres something outside your own environment that you cannot trust, something evil is out there, anti authoritarian sentiments. He rarely likes to talk about meaning in his movies but when he does you can tell what his movies are about.
He grew up in feeling like an outsider in his little town, he said everything felt so strange, segregation laws etc.
Most of his movies are about people that need to team up and put their diferentes aside, or about otherworldly ambiguous threats, he literally said that Michael Myers represents evil and that's why he doesn't die in the film, evil is everywhere, it can be in Antarctica or even in the "safe" american suburbs of the 70s
I don’t think I’ve seen a John Carpenter movie before.
Cool video, nice ranking of films too.
I grew up watching John Carpenter's movies and he is easily my favourite Director as he explores the human condition from unusual situations like Christine's relationship with a car from a human point of view.
Corruption of Humanity is also a major theme in Carpenter's movies with Halloween, In The Mouth Of Madness, They Live, Christine, The Thing and Prince Of Darkness portraying this theme from different angles and situations.
Some of my favourites are Escape from New York, Christine, Assault On Precinct 13, They Live, Prince Of Darkness, The Fog, Halloween, Starman, In The Mouth Of Madness, and his magnum opus...The Thing.
The Thing is arguably my favourite Horror movie, quite often my favourite Sci-Fi movie, and definitely my favourite movie.
The Thing is the pinnacle of practicle fx used in cinema and still looks as good today as they did in 1982.
Thanks for making this video.
Cheers.
Great point there about corruption of humanity in his work. I love that about his films as well
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Thanks for replying.
Cheees.
I still need to see most of these. Only seen the original Halloween, and wasnt too keen. Great ranking
Thanks! I feel like you’d really enjoy Starman, Big Trouble in Little China, and The Thing. But that’s just a guess
Freaking fantastic ranking!!
My top ones are The Thing , Escape From New York , Halloween and Vampires. Love em to death
Awesome, man! I really wanna give Vampires a rewatch. Might’ve underrated it
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I definitely enjoy Vampires more then Near Dark both vampire Western flavor films.
Good stuff
Had to swing by and drop a comment about those amazing performances by Jokic & Murray! Did you like that game 3??
Really great second half all around!
Hey! So cool to find your channel! Im a FoCo content creator about movies as well. Great channel!
That’s so cool! I’ll give you a sub. If you ever wanna collab I’d be down!
@@horsetoothcinema let's collaborate sometime for sure! We can do a livestream or prerecord it or whatever. I'm all about the movie community as a whole and love hearing other thoughts and opinions on films.
Good ranking but I think you forgot the thing
I can get behind most of your choices except Prince of Darkness. I just watched it last night and the characters don’t stand out at all. And the score isn’t bad but it never changes and never stops. I’ve seen 11 of his movies and it’s my least favorite. Maybe it will change on rewatch.
That’s fair. I totally get why someone wouldn’t like that movie, especially in comparison to so many of his other ones
I think POD has some of Carpenter's best imagery that redeems it.
@@randycunningham7318 I agree, it's one of his best and oddly underrated despite being loaded with all the Carpenter trademarks that instantly make it a superior movie. I don't get why some don't like it, it's one long mood piece like all his movies are it has atmosphere literally dripping everywhere.
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Unfortunately watching the redlettermedia video tainted your opinions. You say a lot of the same things Jay did about the movies.