The events of 2020 have left us, on the eve of Halloween, filled with dread. Not even John Carpenter, horror maestro par excellence, has been spared from the mental and emotional ravages of these dark days. From his perch high in the Hollywood Hills, the man who is perhaps the greatest living American genre filmmaker has watched the world tilt on its axis, disrupting even the most enduring traditions of our cultural calendar. Late October has for decades been Carpenter’s busy season. In any other year, he would be granting interviews about Halloween, his groundbreaking 1978 slasher, a...…The events of 2020 have left us, on the eve of Halloween, filled with dread. Not even John Carpenter, horror maestro par excellence, has been spared from the mental and emotional ravages of these dark days. From his perch high in the Hollywood Hills, the man who is perhaps the greatest living American genre filmmaker has watched the world tilt on its axis, disrupting even the most enduring traditions of our cultural calendar. Late October has for decades been Carpenter’s busy season. In any other year, he would be granting interviews about Halloween, his groundbreaking 1978 slasher, a...WW…
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