assault on precinct 13

• Typical Characters Take On Many Twists; 'Assault On Precinct 13' Offers Several Strong Performances

As the movie "Assault on Precinct 13" begins, you will have a pretty good idea of where the story's going. After the first half hour, you begin to doubt your first impressions. And, by the time the credits role, you will be wishing there was just a little bit more.

• Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
• January 28, 2005

• Lights! Camera! Remake!

remake-a-rama "The Hills Have Eyes" "Dawn of the Dead" "Last House on the Left" "Amityville Horror" "The Thing" (tba) "Halloween" "Halloween II" "Nightmare on Elm Street" (2010) "Friday the Thirteenth" "The Hitcher" "The Fog" "The Crazies" "Assault on Precinct 13" "Clash of the Titans" "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" "Creature From the Black Lagoon" (2011) "The Day the Earth Stood Still" "Death Race" "The Departed" "Disturbia" "Escape From New York" (tba) "The Evil Dead" (tba) "Hairspray" "House of Wax" "I Am Legend" "The Bucket List" "Last Holiday" "3:10 to Yuma" "My Bloody Valentine 3D" "The Omen" "Poseidon" "The Producers" "Prom Night" "Quarantine" "Shutter" "The Stepfather" "The Swiss Family Robinson" (tba) "The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3" "The Uninvited" "War of the Worlds" "Westwo...

• Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
• April 07, 2010

• Princes of Darkness

Upending the consensus view that Carpenter fell off after the early successes Assault on Precinct 13 and Halloween, Jones mounts a multifaceted appreciation for unsung gems like Prince of Darkness and In the Mouth of Madness, noting the consistency, humility, and reclusive air of these movies (as though they were the work of a man who lived by the heraldic codesorthe teachings of Epicurus); specifying their moral concern (the many forms evil can take, the infinite ways in which it can announce itself, the ease with which it can blend into the rhythms and atmospheres of everyday life); and, most brilliantly, deliniating their formal and stylistic achievement.

• Village Voice, The
• August 24, 2009

• Who's in Charge Here? ; Good and Bad Fight Together at a Police Station

*** ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13

• The Record, Bergen County, NJ
• January 21, 2005

• Rogue Pictures Invites You and a Guest to an Advanced Screening of ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13.

To survive the night, cops and criminals alike will have to unite and fight. A classic head-to-head showdown ignites in ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13, an all...

• Business Wire
• January 04, 2005

• Repertory

(1978/1974) (Shown on film): In Adam Rifkin's 1991 cult film The Dark Backward, Judd Nelson plays an unfunny comedian who discovers a third arm is growing out of his back. The posterior outgrowth in 1978's The Manitou is far weirder. Directed by Kentucky-born drive-in king William Girdler (Sheba, Baby), who died in a Philippines helicopter accident not long after the shoot, the film's flagrantly outlandish plot finds Susan Strasberg (daughter of Lee) whose back tumor slowly reveals itself to be a vengeful 400-year old Native American spirit. Should I mention that the ending's set in space? It's almost not worth saying anything else, but for the record, [Tony Curtis] and Stella Stevens play investigating fortune tellers, while Ann Sothern and Burgess Meredith take up the rear. Girdler ge...

... Exorcist with help from William Marshall, Assault on Precinct 13's Austin Stoker and Blacula himself...

• Philadelphia Weekly
• August 10, 2009

• 'Precinct 13' Is Just Another Weak Remake: ; Premise Is Close to Carpenter's Original, but This Version Is Louder and More Obvious

Movie: Assault on Precinct 13 (R) H1/2

• Charleston Daily Mail
• January 21, 2005

• Menú Blu-Ray

Otros títulos que debutan hoy en el formato de alta definición Blu-ray son: The Shawshank Redemption: Blu-ray Book (Warner/$35), el extraordinario drama carcelario protagonizado por Tim Robbins y Morgan Freeman -esta edición incluye un libro exclusivo-; dos cintas del francés Luc Besson, The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc ($29/Sony) y La Femme Nikita ($29/Sony); la sensacional y muy violenta película de acción, Assault on Precinct 13 ($30/Image), de John Carpenter, un clásico de su género en una versión restaurada; el interesante y visualmente magistral drama de Alfonso Cuarón, Children of Men ($43/101...

• La Opinión; Los Angeles, Calif.
• September 01, 2009

• Good Cops, Bad Cops Under Siege

ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13 *

• The Record, Bergen County, NJ
• January 19, 2005

• 'Assault' has Tight Storyline, Suspense

Crazed, grubby and possessed of the crookedest teeth in Hollywood, Ethan Hawke opens Assault on Precinct 13 with a scene that makes him look like a crook, though he's a cop. That sets the template for the movie. It's a things-are-not-what-they-seem, shades-of-gray movie that keeps us off guard with an ingeniously constructed script and murky moral waters.

• Augusta Chronicle, The
• May 07, 2005