John Carpenter lovefest brehs
shyt looks lit
From Slashfilm Review:
In the eyes of many genre filmmakers, the horror genre peaked in the ’80s and this mindset has informed entire filmographies. To attend any genre film festival is to wade through movies that feel like deliberate riffs on the work of directors like John Carpenter, movies filled with gooey practical effects and set to icy synth soundtracks. This kind of affection for a bygone era even went mainstream this summer with the release of Netflix’s Stranger Things – everyone wants to make a great ’80s movie 30 years after the fact and it can feel stifling. Nostalgia can be a bytch and a half. After a few miserable ’80s horror pastiches, you can’t help but feel ready to throw this entire subgenre to the dogs.
And then something like The Void arrives and shows how you can do it right.
On one level, The Void does wear its influences on its sleeve. To watch it is to take note of the filmmakers who obviously inspired Gillespie and Kostanski and there are shades of John Carpenter, Clive Barker, and Lucio Fulci evident in every frame of this movie. But unlike so many of its contemporaries, The Void never uses past films as a crutch. There are no winks and nods here, no direct references or in-jokes. This is very much its own movie, a tale that feels like it belongs alongside the films it admires instead of a Greatest Hits collection performed by a cover band.
The Void may not be an instant classic like the movies it was obviously inspired by, but it scratches the same itch as Hellraiser and The Beyond without having to lean on them for support. That’s impressive. That’s important. The ’80s horror throwback has finally grown up and matured.
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I'm keep eye out for this.
