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Directive 8020: A Dark Pictures Game launches John Carpenter's the Thing into space this October

Supermassive's latest horror adventure arrives later this year.

PC Gamer

27 Years Later, John Carpenter's Most Misguided Horror Flop Just Got A Huge Upgrade

With 'Vampires,' John Carpenter wanted to make the anti-'Buffy.' It didn't end well.

Inverse

45 Years Later, A Legendary Director's Overlooked Thriller Has A Well-Earned Cult Following

While never mentioned alongside 'The Thing' and 'Halloween,' another Carpenter horror flick is just as important for understanding the ideas that motivate him.

Inverse

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The Oral History of 'In the Mouth of Madness,' John Carpenter's Misunderstood Cosmic Horror Masterpiece

In 1995, John Carpenter released his cosmic horror film to lukewarm reviews. Inverse spoke to the team behind 'In the Mouth of Madness' about its complicated legacy.

Inverse

“Turn the lights off, put the music on, close your eyes and start to have a waking dream… it might even inspire people to create movies that could be scored with this music”: John Carpenter’s second career in prog

The cult movie director started composing his own soundtracks out of necessity. Eventually he returned to his first love of music to create the Lost Themes album series, and began touring too

Louder

40 Years Ago, Jeff Bridges Made A Wildly Underrated Sci-Fi Masterpiece

In 1984 Karen Allen and Jeff Bridges made a great sci-fi movie called 'Starman.' Here's why, 40 years later, we should still watch this underrated classic.

Inverse

‘It creates mental horrors’ – why The Thing game remains so chilling

Wallpaper* speaks to two of the developers behind 2002’s cult classic The Thing video game, who hope the release of a remastered version can terrify a new generation of gamers

Wallpaper

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43 Years Later, a Legendary Apocalyptic Thriller Just Got a Huge Upgrade

John Carpenter’s most badass movie set the tone for an entire decade. Grab it now with this new Blu-ray release.

Inverse

‘Genuinely disturbing’: Guardian writers on their scariest horror villains

For Halloween, critics pick their most nightmarish baddies, from Count Orlok in Nosferatu to Annie Wilkes in Misery

The Guardian - US

‘After the shoot, we had a party in a slaughterhouse’: horror movies’ creepiest kids reveal all

What’s it like to be the spine-chilling child in a scary film? In a Halloween special, we speak to the girl who played a demonic telepath in Village of the Damned – and the star of homicidal-virus shocker The Children

The Guardian - UK

Kurt Russell’s hat from The Thing could fetch £80,000 at horror-themed auction

Horror memorabilia from films including The Thing and Shaun Of The Dead are to be sold at auction.

The Independent UK

The Directors of 2024's Wildest Thriller Wrote a Sequel to John Carpenter's 'The Thing'

The duo behind 'A Quiet Place' and 'Heretic' reveal the horror franchises they'd want to take on and whether they'd ever return to the Quiet Place universe.

Inverse

The Terminator at 40: did James Cameron see into the future?

The 1984 sci-fi thriller offers a grim view of the dangers that ‘the machines’ might pose for humanity as well as one of the most thrilling experiences of the decade

The Guardian - US

Jon Ronson: ‘Elon Musk epitomises despicability’

The author and journalist behind ‘The Psychopath Test’ is about to kick off a UK tour revisiting his 2011 bestseller. He talks to Daniel Dylan Wray about Trump, Musk, and how aspects of psychopathic behaviour are becoming more and more acceptable in our society

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Inverse

36 Years Later, the Grossest '80s Sci-Fi Thriller Just Got a Huge Upgrade

Tom’s Guide

5 best thriller movies like 'Rebel Ridge' to stream

Check out these great action movies if you liked Netflix's 'Rebel Ridge.'

Inverse

‘Halloween’ Is Turning Into An SNES-Style Platformer, With Another Mysterious Game In the Works

John Carpenter's 'Halloween' is getting two new video game adaptations. One is an arcade platformer, but the director himself is involved on a second, unrevealed title.

GamesRadar

John Carpenter's Halloween and Ash vs Evil Dead are getting "fast-paced 90's arcade style games" from the developer of Shantae

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Halloween to get two new games from Evil Dead: The Game developer, John Carpenter is "intimately involved"

It looks like the first Red Dead Redemption game will finally be making its way to PC.

GamesRadar

40 years later, two new Halloween games are in the works from the Evil Dead: The Game studio, and series' creator John Carpenter is "intimately involved" with one

Could Halloween: The Game be a new asymmetrical horror game?

Inverse

The Most Intriguing Horror Game of the Year Is Weighed Down By Unimaginative Gameplay

John Carpenter would be flattered.

GamesRadar

"There'd be no sense in doing this if we were going to pull our punches": Hunter Gorinson reveals why Oni Press is reviving the most controversial comics imprint of all time

Interview | It's alive! The president of Oni Press reveals why now was the right time to bring EC Comics back

PC Gamer

Horror-shooter The Thing is being remastered by Nightdive

The Thing, blessed by director John Carpenter, was a critical and commercial success at the time.

GamesRadar

After 22 years, the cult classic shooter based on the greatest horror movie of all time gets the second chance it's always deserved in The Thing: Remastered

The Thing: Remastered will bring you back to John Carpenter's classic world

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