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‘Rewind’ to ’80: Mick Garris Interviews Jamie Lee Curtis

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In out latest installment of ‘Rewind,’ we take a trip back to 1980 via a compelling video interview with Halloween star Jamie Lee Curtis, who discusses with interviewer and filmmaker Mick Garris (for the Fantasy Film Festival) her feelings at being attached to John Carpenter’s seminal classic, as well as her 1980 slasher films Terror Train, Prom Night, and Road Games.

“I was so thrilled to get it,” offered the then twenty-year old Lee enthusiastically in reference to landing the part of final girl ‘Laurie Strode’ in Halloween. “You know I must tell you, when you get your first movie and you’re looking through the script, and you keep turning the pages and you seeing your character’s name on it. I mean, ‘Laurie,’ ‘Laurie,’ ‘Laurie!’ I mean, it was exciting to me! I just kept turning the pages, and there was more and more!”

Check out the video below. Lee’s historic vivaciousness, wit and charm contained within is entirely contagious, as is her pride at having worked on the handful of previously mentioned horror films, which helped to define her early career.


John Carpenter Talks Surviving Hollywood

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Filmmaker and master of horror John Carpenter sat down with Variety’s Jenelle Riley for an interview recently to discuss his career, and touched on such topics as the films which frightened him as a boy (1958’s The Fly and 1951’s The Thing from Another World, among them), growing up in a segregated South, his early years at USC, his approach to scoring film, and Jason Blum’s challenge to him of, “Why don’t you get off your lazy butt and make it good instead of sitting around and complaining?” as it pertained to the Halloween film series, which prompted his return as executive producer and composer in last year’s David Gordon Green-directed box office hit.

It’s a great watch (and if you pay close attention, you’ll even spy in the b-roll a Rick Baker-designed maquette of a Creature from the Black Lagoon suit mock-up, which was intended for a never-made remake of the eponymous 1954 film which Carpenter was once attached to direct for Universal).

Interesting stuff. Check it out below.