HalloweenIs Cool and All, But John Carpenter Is Really Into Godzilla These Days

As the merchandising forHalloween Ends — andHalloween itself , for that matter — builds into a crescendo of spookiness , the director responsible for for some of the holiday ’s most memorable fear is turn his attending elsewhere : specifically toGodzilla , radiate star of Shout Factory TV ’s coming film marathon , featuring the heavy John Carpenter as server .

The streamer ’s Masters of Monsters weekend run November 3 - 6 and will feature Carpenter bring in ( and geeking out about ) “ his four favorite monster film directed by Ishiro Honda , ” allot toNerdist : Godzilla ( the unmown Japanese original version , aka Gojira ) ; Rodan ; Ghidorah , The Three - Headed Monster ; and The War of the Gargantuas .

Nerdist also shared a clip of Carpenter — whose skill as a musician and composer have long been complementary tohis skills as a movie maker — singing the praises of Godzilla composer Akira Ifukube , mark Ifukube also created Godzilla ’s signature boom by “ rubbing a break off - down double basso with a rubber glove . ”

John Carpenter attends the screening of Escape from New York at the 2019 TCM 10th Annual Classic Film Festival in Hollywood, California.

John Carpenter attends the screening of Escape from New York at the 2019 TCM 10th Annual Classic Film Festival in Hollywood, California.Photo: Emma McIntyre/Getty Images for TCM (Getty Images)

This is really a case of two corking mouthful that try great together , no ? Masters of Monsters ( featuring your host , the Master of Horror ) kicks off with Godzilla on November 3 at 6 p.m. and 8 p.m. PT ; the rest of the films unspool at the same time on subsequent dark in the social club list above . you could learn more about the movie marathonright here .

fudge factor : An early reading of this narrative misspelled Ishiro Honda ’s name . io9 regrets the error .

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