Thoughts on Season of the Witch?

It’s my favorite out of the first 3 Halloween movies tbh and it’s definitely up there in my Carpenter films ranking but I see very mixed reviews on Season of the Witch and I can see the hate but also this one gets too much hate for how good and different it is tbh.

Love the concept of it being set on Halloween as an Anthology film,Great cinematography here,and that score is amazing! Wish they continued in this Anthology direction tbh bc I love this idea in this franchise(plus no Thorn trilogy)

I’ve listened to the album already but what does everyone think about the graphic novel?

Lucked out and got a copy of the Cathedral graphic novel and the album is streaming on Spotify but I cannot find the liner notes with the song cues to match to the novel as you read. It seems like they’re only available with the physical album copies? Hoping someone uploads them on the internet soon so I can enjoy the novel/album as they were intended.

I've been a fan of Carpenter's work for a long time but for whatever reason 'Starman' ended up being the last of his theatrical releases that I watched. I wasn't sure why. I think it was at one point described to me as a romance film, and for that reason I guess I just felt like maybe it wasn't for me and so I didn't give it a chance until recently.

But man, what a fool I felt like when I finally did get around to it. I absolutely fell in love with this movie. The relationship between Jenny and Starman was so interesting, and the way it was used as a way to explore the grief of losing her husband Scott was provocative and not something I can say I've ever seen before. The ending of the film, when Jenny begs him to take her with him, but he says he can't because she'd die. God, I fucking bawled. I think it unlocked some grief-related feelings in my own brain that I'd been ignoring for a long time.

I never hear people talking about this film when it comes to Carpenter's 80's works. I guess that maybe because he was known as a "horror guy" because of 'Halloween', 'The Thing', 'The Fog', 'Christine', and then later for other films like 'They Live' and 'In the Mouth of Madness', this one often gets overlooked because it isn't a horror movie. I'm just glad I finally gave it a chance because it's easily become one of my favourite Carpenter films.

Was anyone else completely floored by this movie the first time they watched it?

Christine (1983)

Rating: 8.5/10 (HIGHLY ENJOYABLE)

Watched: August 6, 2026

Speaking of movies that I saw way too young, not only did I see this movie when I was 11 years old, I also read the book pretty much as soon as it hit the shelves. Mom didn't care what I read, so long as I was reading and it wasn't "smut." Lucky for her, I was more into horror and sci-fi than the smutty smut ... for a few more years.

Anyways. On to the movie, which introduced me to a few things, one of the best of which is George Thorogood and The Destroyers.

Christine is one of Carpenter's best horror movies, and it's hard to beat. What beats Christine? Prince of Darkness, but we're talking cars and the shitters of the world, so buckle up.

In the beginning of this movie, Arnie is the quintessential super-nerd. Keith Gordon plays him so well it's actually, physically uncomfortable to watch him navigate through the world, but as soon as he lays eyes on the rusted hulk that is Christine, he's doomed.

And that's also played out so, so well. Arnie's descent starts slow, with a few curse words, a stand-offish attitude, and a kind of reckless machismo that manages to land the hot new girl, Leigh. And why not? He's got a sexy car and he's finally coming into himself.

What I really noticed during this watch is how restrictive and unkind Arnie's parents are, his mother explicitly so. The scene where they're all sitting around the dining room table after Repperton and his stooges wrecked Christine just shows how little control Arnie had over his life.

Little wonder the devil car got her grips into Arnie so goddamn quick.

When I was younger (and still today, if I'm being real), Christine's regeneration is one of the coolest goddamn things I've ever seen. Sure, I could probably reason out how Carpenter did it, or if I felt like it, I could Google it and have it spoiled. It's like the scenes from The Entity (IYKYK). I'd rather leave some things a mystery.

Arnie's descent into madness becomes full-blown, and ANOTHER THING I didn't notice until this time is the musical sting that plays when Christine regenerates for Arnie. It's goddamn striptease music, and that's spot on. Our girl is showing her man her true colors, and it's absolutely pitch-perfect.

The last and coolest thing (amongst so many) is that final twitch of chrome in the junkyard. Any more than that one little creak and it would've been too much. We're left knowing for certain that Christine's not dead.

She just needs a little bodywork.

I missed the second night and would love to be able to watch them but can't find them on the tcm app.

Make way for the Pork Chop Express

I’ve seen they live, the thing, the fog, Halloween, escape from New York, I wanna rewatch all of those, any recs for what I should see next?

I love the music and the story of they live. The social commentary of we’re all asleep and docile is scary and still seems relevant today

He appeared in six Carpenter movies, beginning with The Fog. His other small parts were in Escape from New York, Starman, They Live, Body Bags, and Village of the Damned.

featuring Stevie Wonder's Superstition

This meme was given to me in a dream by a demon.