Oh, I see. I haven't watched Last House on the Left or The Hills Have Eyes. I've seen the Nightmare films he's directed (the first, and the last, where the cast of the original was brought back to play themselves and Freddy enters "the real world"), and the Scream films, a couple of the flicks on which he was the "executive producer," plus his foray into non-horror, Red Eye.
When I saw him in interviews and the like, it quite honestly stunned me that he was the exact opposite of what you'd expect a guy who made so many gory, violent movies to be: soft-spoken, erudite, and gentle-natured. He has kind of "lost it"; methinks it would be wise for him to step away from filmmaking.
I didn't know about him getting a pass on his treatment of women, whereas other horrormeisters repented for it; I did watch one of the specials you spoke of, but I was pretty tipsy at the time. (I had to be. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre played immediately after the special, and no way was I going to watch that sober.)
John Carpenter...I thought Halloween was good, and combined with Halloween II and Halloween H20, ignoring all the crappy quasi-sequels in between, makes a pretty decent horror trilogy. But then Rob Zombie had to go and shit all over it.
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on 2009-09-30 07:19 pm (UTC)When I saw him in interviews and the like, it quite honestly stunned me that he was the exact opposite of what you'd expect a guy who made so many gory, violent movies to be: soft-spoken, erudite, and gentle-natured. He has kind of "lost it"; methinks it would be wise for him to step away from filmmaking.
I didn't know about him getting a pass on his treatment of women, whereas other horrormeisters repented for it; I did watch one of the specials you spoke of, but I was pretty tipsy at the time. (I had to be. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre played immediately after the special, and no way was I going to watch that sober.)
John Carpenter...I thought Halloween was good, and combined with Halloween II and Halloween H20, ignoring all the crappy quasi-sequels in between, makes a pretty decent horror trilogy. But then Rob Zombie had to go and shit all over it.