Cover of 50 Years Of Assault on Precinct 13 w/ Matthew Simpson

50 Years Of Assault on Precinct 13 w/ Matthew Simpson

50 Years Of Assault on Precinct 13 w/ Matthew Simpson

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Continuing with "50 Years of... 1976", I talk with Vancouver film and television critic Matthew Simpson about John Carpenter's second film Assault on Precinct 13. We discuss how the lean-and-mean action thriller uses a pulsing score, small character moments, and a faceless horde of killers to hook the audience and keep them for 90 minutes. We also talk about Carpenter's career, his clever tricks of revealing information on screen, and how radically different this film would be constructed if it were made today.


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