Once in a blue moon, a remake comes along that outshines the original, Blumhouse Productions' cheap as chips Firestarter remake is objectively not one of them; in fact, we're six months in and it's already a very strong contender for the worst film of 2022.
On the positive tip, John Carpenter, along with his sprog and that other one who's not related to him, did compose the film's soundtrack. It just so happens to be the one saving grace of that cinematic atrocity.
It isn't the first time this year that The Carpenters Plus One have blessed a shite film with their music, since they also produced the titular Studio 666 for The Foo Fighters movie. A band movie that should have been a banned movie for Dave Grohl alone. On the subject of band movies, a better alternative is the first Killer Barbies film outing, mistakenly titled Killer Barbys (1996); helmed by none other than the dimunitive, Spanish king of exploitation horror, Jesús Franco.
Carpenter has pretty much retired from film making, but here's hoping he carries on scoring films; preferably some good ones, at some point.
John Carpenter, Cody Carpenter & Daniel Davies - End Titles
(Firestarter Soundtrack, 2022)
3 comments:
Let Carpenter soundtrack the remaining series of What We Do In The Shadows imho. Let him guest in it too.
Carpenter would be great as some old west blood sucker.
Fan of Tol Puddle Martyrs' Time Will Come which I discovered from the series.
Choon 4 real.
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