Word: starman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...time. A matter of time that is, before veteran horror master John Carpenter, the brains behind Halloween, Escape From New York and The Thing, would give in and take on the most enduring of all movie monsters--vampires. After dreaming up such characters as Michael Myers, Snake Plisken and Starman, there's no way Carpenter's career could have been complete without at least one film about bloodsuckers. The resulting effort is John Carpenter's Vampires, a piece of joyful, over-the-top, gonzo trash film-making that delights in wallowing in its own bloodbaths. Every vampire film boasts...
Jeff Vilencia's "Images" grapples most openly with just how cool film really is. Shot in black and white by a portly guy with an avowed taste for dope, LSI) and a wacked-out artist named Starman, the ten minute film generates a general feeling of Vilencia's love for the camera, his project and the construction paper he tacks on the wall in various configurations (er, images). But at ten minutes, it's five too long...