John Carpenter is easily one of my favorite filmmakers. He

has made more than five movies that I hold to be of such enduring quality that

I have lost count of the number of times I have watched them. Even in his

weakest movies I can find lots to love and the film under discussion in this

episode is NOT a weak one. ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13 was only the second feature

Carpenter directed but it shows his skill and abilities off brilliantly. I

could go on and on but we'll get into that in the show!

In this episode I'm joined once again by my friend John

Hudson who last sat down with me to talk about Carl Kolchak. This time out we

dig into this film and use it as a reason to touch on other Carpenter movies

was well. I'm proud to say that we were able to stay mostly on topic so there

weren't as many barely related things discussed this time out. Of course, that

doesn't keep either of us from relating some very odd analogies among the

actual information so you have been warned.