Tripping Through Gateways
Entering the Alternate Worlds of the Movies
Tag: Harry Dean Stanton
The Hunter or The Hunted? Pt 1 (Alien, 1979)
Alien begins rather quietly. We see the interiors of a ship that is floating through space. It comes to life and we meet a crew…space truckers, so to speak. We do not know much about what they are hauling, though it does not matter…
Guys Love Their Cars (Christine, 1983)
After the Thing, Carpenter went with a different type of terror. In some ways, it is a return to the ghostly tale of the Fog. But instead of Leper Pirates, Christine is the tale of an obsessive car. Nerdy Arnie is put upon…he has…
I Heart New York (Escape From New York, 1981)
1981’s Escape from New York was a large change from the Fog and Halloween. There were no supernatural elements and it was not a slasher. Instead, it was a straight up action film set in the distant future of 1997. Reagan married Thatcher and…
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