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THE IPC DOUBLE TAKE FEATURING MARKED MOVIES: IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS (1994)

April 24, 2013 by theipc

A while back I decided to do a compilation of ALL of John Carpenter’s movies HERE, so I ordered them all up on Netflix and moved their position around here and there as I found something new I wanted to watch. Months passed and this showed up on my door and I gave it a watch. Over on Mark’s site we were talking about something or other and I begged him for the 500th time he suggested we collaborate again […]

Categories: 2013, John Carpenter, Movie Reviews, The IPC Double Take, Three Top Hats, Thriller • Tags: Bernie Casey, Charlton Heston, Conrad Bergschneider, Cthulu, Frances Bay, Hobb's End, In The Mouth Of Madness Movie Review, Insane Asylum, Insanity, JHC, John Carpenter, Julie Carmen, Jurgen Prochnow, Katherine Ashby, Mark Walker's a Stud : ), MARKED MOVIES, Peter Jason, Sadly - No Boobs, Sam Neill, Sutter Kane, THE IPC DOUBLE TAKE

THE IPC DOUBLE TAKE ~ FEATURING MARKED MOVIES: ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK (1981)

October 1, 2012 by theipc

I don’t exactly remember the events surrounding MARKED MOVIES and I planning on doing this, but I imagine it had something to do with my awe of his writing skills (especially his fucking awesome SIT DOWN SERIES) – but I asked him if he would be interested and I told him I’d buy him some shots if I ever run into him in person and we agreed on “Escape” which we both haven’t seen in a long time and here […]

Categories: 80s, Excitement, Five Top Hats, John Carpenter, The IPC Double Take • Tags: A Number One, Adrienne Barbeau, Donald Pleasence, Ernest Borgnine, Escape From New York Movie Review, Fucking Awesome, Harry Dean Stanton, Isaac Hayes, John Carpenter, Kurt Russell, Lee Van Cleef, Season Hubley, Snake Plissken, The Duke of New York, Tom Atkins

THE FOG (1980) FOUR TOP HATS

September 3, 2012 by theipc

So how long has it ben since you’ve seen this bad boy? I’m betting on quite a while. I’m not sure when this will get published but, earlier today, I started doing a write up of {NOT POSTED YET CAN’T SPOIL} for a special piece that will hopefully have published before now but, in it, I mentioned that it sure is different seeing something that you loved as kid 30 years later and look at with new / old eyes […]

Categories: 80s, Four Top Hats, John Carpenter, Thriller • Tags: Adrienne Barbeau, Charles Cyphers, Jamie Lee Curtis, Janet Leigh, John Carpenter, Leper Ghost Killers, Nancy Kyes, The Fog (1980 Movie Review, Tom Atkins

BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA (1986) FIVE TOP HATS

July 9, 2012 by theipc

What can I say? This is only one of my favorite movies – EVER! I probably saw this sucker in the theater a dozen times when I was a kid and I’ve certainly seen it another twenty or so in the last 26 years of my existence. If I am ever lying around with nothing to do and this is on – check! Do I ever watch this even when there is something else to do – check! I don’t […]

Categories: 80s, Five Top Hats, John Carpenter • Tags: Big Trouble in Little China Movie Review, Dennis Dun, Everyone was Kung Fu Fighting, I'm a reasonable guy but I've just experienced some very unreasonable things, James Hong, John Carpenter, Kate Burton, Kim Cattrall, Kurt Russell, Martial Arts Comedy, The Pork Chop Express, Victor Wong, Would you stop rubbing your body up against mine because I can't concentrate when you do that

FATHER’S DAY 2012!!

June 17, 2012 by theipc

If you haven’t noticed, or are new to the joint here, we try and celebrate holidays the best way we can, by looking at movies and somehow associating them to the holiday at hand. For this one, I thought we could get our Father’s Day on, IPC style, with a look into those crazy antics of Satan and his daddy in: PRINCE OF DARKNESS (1987) FIVE TOP HATS The Good and Canonical Horror Reader might refer to me as a heretic […]

Categories: 80s, Five Top Hats, Holidays, John Carpenter, Thriller • Tags: Anne Marie Howard, Dennis Dun, Donald Pleasance, Jameson Parker, John Carpenter, Lisa Blount, Prince of Darkness (1987) Movie Review, Satan and his Buddies, Susan Blanchard, The Brotherhood of Sleep, Victor Wong

ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13 (1976) FOUR TOP HATS

May 24, 2012 by theipc

I got nostalgic the other day when I was watching Alien and I beered up some older movies that I loved from when I was a kid so I’ll be writing about some of my old faves (maybe) frequently here. When I moved “Assault” up to position one I beeredly thought – “hey why don’t I do a tribute page to John Carpenter??? I can do it!” and then queued up a bunch of his older movies. So, I am going to […]

Categories: 70s, Four Top Hats, John Carpenter, Population Sample • Tags: Assault on Precinct 13 1976 Movie Review, Austin Stoker, Charles Cyphers, Darwin Johnston, John Carpenter, Kim Richards, Laurie Zimmer, Loved It, Martin West, Nancy Kyes, Napoleon Wilson, Policeman Ethan Bishop, Tony Burton

THE THING (2011) THREE TOP HATS

February 2, 2012 by theipc

(2011) There seems to be a lot of hate for this movie out on the IMDB “butchering Carpenter’s visionary classic” and I am really not sure why. Considering the sets were built to exactly match those of the 1982 Kurt Russel “Thing” and, if you’ve seen that Thing, then you would realize that this Thing is, basically, the exact same Thing, just with Mary Elizabeth Winstead in the lead. For real, if you take out the “spaceship” Thing and the […]

Categories: Three Top Hats, Very Gory • Tags: Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, donald moffat, Eric Christian Olsen, Isaacs Picture Conclusions, John Carpenter, Keith David, Kurt Russell, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, teeth fillings, The Thing 1982, The Thing 2011

THE WARD (2010) THREE TOP HATS

September 5, 2011 by theipc

I think this is officially called “John Carpenter’s The Ward”. “JC” has provided a LOT of entertainment in my life – a LOT – so I am not going to slander his good name, but this guy hasn’t made a movie the really did anything for me since “In the Mouth of Madness” back in, like, 1994, and I think that was a remake. This movie is really not that great – and probably deserves a lower rating, but since […]

Categories: Movie Reviews, Three Top Hats • Tags: Amber Heard, Danielle Panabaker. Laura Leigh, John Carpenter, Lyndsy Fonseca, Mamie Gummer, The Ward Movie Review

POPULATION SAMPLE 2: THE HALLOWEEN MOVIES:

August 22, 2011 by theipc

I loved all of these movies growing up, so this is going to be especially fun re-watching these. Michael Myers (also known as The Shape) used to give me nightmares. I loved how he was always skulking around in the background, his white mask slowly coming into the picture, chiaroscuro style. I also liked these the most because they didn’t try to be comical, they were always dark and atmospheric, no one- liners that ruined scenes. I remember there were […]

Categories: 70s, 80s, Movie Reviews, Population Sample, Slasher • Tags: All of the Halloween Movies Reviewed, Donald Pleasance, Halloween, Halloween 10, Halloween 2, Halloween 3, Halloween 4, Halloween 5, Halloween 6, Halloween 7, Halloween 8, Halloween 9, Halloween Franchise, Halloween Movies, Horror Movies, Jamie Lee Curtis, John Carpenter, Josh Hartnett, LL Cool J Halloween, Michael Myers, Paul Rudd, Rob Zombie's Halloween, Rob Zombie's Halloween 2, Season of the Witch, Sheri Moon Zombie, The Shat

Isaacs Picture Conclusions

An Honest Review from an Honest Guy (who doesn't take things too seriously)