John Carpenter verteld over The Thing en meer tijdens een interview

RDJ134 15 mei 2019 om 19:25 uur

De website Collider had een interview met niemand minder dan de cult regisseur John Carpenter die ons zoveel goede science-fiction en horror films heeft gebracht. The Thing is daar één en ook laat hij zich uit over collega's en uiteraard Trump. Dus reden genoeg om het even te checken.


How do you feel about your effect on other filmmakers? For example, you are credited with starting the slasher genre. Did you realise your films would have such an impact when you made them?

CARPENTER
: It's been great but I had no clue. We didn't know what we were doing with Halloween. We wanted to make a movie, that's all.

How has the genre changed?

CARPENTER
: Genres always change. Horror has been with cinema since the very beginning and every generation makes it with their own sensibilities and fears. It will always be with us because every human being is scared. We were all born afraid. We're afraid of our own death-every fear you have I have. It's universal. Humour isn't always universal. Fear is. That's why horror is so incredible.

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