Movies John Carpenters Most Underrated Film?

What is Carpenters Most Underrated Film?

  • Assault on Precinct 13

  • The Fog

  • Christine

  • Starman

  • Prince of Darkness

  • Memoirs of an Invisible Man

  • In the Mouth of Madness

  • Escape From LA

  • Vampires


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I think most would agree his 5 best are

1. Halloween
2. Escape From NY
3. The Thing
4. Big Trouble in Little China
5. They Live

Which film do you think is his next best film or his most underrated that deserves to be in the top 5.

For me the answer could be either Prince, Madness, or Assault.



Edit: Current Rewatch Ranked

1. Assault on Precinct 13
2. In the Mouth of Madness
3. Prince of Darkness
4. The Fog
5. Starman
6. Christine
7. Vampires
8. Escape from LA

Assault, Madness, & Prince are the 3 best for sure
 
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Hot take, but I always loved Escape from LA. It's not Lawrence of Arabia and I get that it sucks, but I don't know why it gets so much hate when it should have the 'so bad it's good' energy

 
Hot take, but I always loved Escape from LA. It's not Lawrence of Arabia and I get that it sucks, but I don't know why it gets so much hate when it should have the 'so bad it's good' energy


It's fun.
 
I very much LOVE Prince of Darkness. Even if that mustache dude and his love interest cant act, it dont ruin the movie at all. The concept, and the soundtrack is fantastic.

The part where the woman pushes the devil's daughter into the mirror and gets dragged to hell is one of the most fucked scenes in movie history.

Plus the implications of the movie, that SHE who was dragged off into darkness, becomes the one the Devil chooses to send back to destroy the world.

The implications that what she does is so bad that scientists in the future subconciously send the image back to people to "alter the events you are seeing"

Makes the mind roam with possibilities!!!


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I'm a huge fan of both Prince of Darkness and In the Mouth of Madness.

I think that Sam Neil pushes In the Mouth of Madness to my top pick in this poll. Also, it was filmed in the GTA and you can recognize areas from the film.
 
Assault on Precinct 13 is John Carpenter in the raw. Not a great movie though, in my opinion.

The Fog is very good, but seems to be missing something. It's close.

Christine is a Carpenter classic. To me, it's a little slow and perhaps too long.

Starman is arguably one of Carpenter's best. But Starman is also his most Spielbergian, commercial film. The ending is, in my opinion, one of the best moments in cinematic history. But It does not feel like a Carpenter movie in any respect.

Prince of Darkness is John Carpenter uninhibited. It has the look, the sound, the feel of a great John Carpenter movie.

Memoirs of an Invisible Man is ok.

I haven't seen In the Mouth of Madness in its entirety.

Escape from L.A. is fun. But it needed 1980's production values.

Vampires just needed to be polished. The framework is there.
 
It will always be They Live


That film will never be appreciated enough as the indictment of society and living in a perishable consumerist surveillance state that we absolutely do. No matter how many reference to it in pop culture and imitations the may exist; you simply can’t do it enough justice in my opinion.
 
Underrated for me is almost a toss up between Christine and Prince.

Christine is SUCH a stupid story, but its taken seriously,.good acting, and i fucking love that soundtrack.

Prince of Darkness...I fucking love it and I think its his scariest. The Thing is quite scary, but since its tied with 2 other movies of me favorite movie ranking, ive seen it the most.

Prince to this day disturbs me. Outlandish story about green fluid being held in this ancient church thats pure evil, but what bothers me the most, is that i wanted MORE. This movie being ambiguous always leaves me unsatisfied.


I very much LOVE Prince of Darkness. Even if that mustache dude and his love interest cant act, it dont ruin the movie at all. The concept, and the soundtrack is fantastic.

The part where the woman pushes the devil's daughter into the mirror and gets dragged to hell is one of the most fucked scenes in movie history.

Plus the implications of the movie, that SHE who was dragged off into darkness, becomes the one the Devil chooses to send back to destroy the world.

The implications that what she does is so bad that scientists in the future subconciously send the image back to people to "alter the events you are seeing"

Makes the mind roam with possibilities!!!


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Hmm, never thought of that; her being the destroyer. Guess im biased after watching Constantine. Nobody accidentally gets into heaven OR he'll, so I always thought her soul would be saved via resurrection at least. Him dreaming of her at the end is actually only his dreaming and not....damn, whatever cult they speak about....

I really wished we got some more out of this movie.
 
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