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.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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