Directed by John
Carpenter - Written by
Bill Lancaster
Starring Adrienne
Barbeau, Kurt Russell,
Keith David
Distributed by
MCA/Universal - 1982 -
109mins - Rated R
Jacob Hall's
Review
A-
Man is the warmest place to hide.
Perhaps
I'm being generous to this ultra-gory horror flick by
writer/director/composer John Carpenter. I'm not sure. All I know is
that I tend to watch it at least once year around Halloween and each
year it never gets old. Kurt Russell makes an engaging hero, and the
monster that is slowly taking over and destroying his friends is at
first frightening for being hidden, and then shocking when it makes
it's entrances in waves of violence unlike anything you have ever seen
in horror films before. Is it pointless? Yes, it seems to be. Is it a
well made sci-fi thriller that is arm chair grippingly good? Yes.
