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John Carpenter ventured to Hollywood in the 1970s to make Westerns, finished as a master pioneer of horror and now a renewed sense of enthusiasm, even with a lot of battle scars.
"When I was young, I was scared of everything." I could take that fear and turn it into a lucrative career. There is nothing wrong with this. Better that to be a killer hidden, "explains Carpenter, 63."
It triggered one of the masked men, Michael Myers, on the world in "Halloween" in 1978. Now, after a break of 10 years to order - a result of feeling burned and disappointed by the studio system - Carpenter returns with "the ward," a thriller set in an asylum for the insane in the 1960s.
DVD Tuesday, the film is young Kristen (Amber Heard) committed by force after the psychiatric institution she wakes up in front of a house fire. She became friendly with four other girls, who disappeared mysteriously in their various treatments, including shock therapy.
"There is something deeply unsettling about mental illness," Carpenter said. "It disturbs us all, because we know that there is a bit of madness in us. But in the case of these poor people, they just lost, many of them. "It is very sad."
Paranoia is a theme in "The Ward" - Kristen and the other girls are haunted by strange visions, but by what they endure "better." But the issue also arose in his other films, such as "The Thing," in which scientists are pitted against an alien shape changing.
"The Ward" was another mark of Carpenter: mixture of genres. Here is a more dramatic than all thriller azimuth horror.
The Carpenter of the films "that they live," "Big Trouble in China shortly" and "Escape from new york" "are action/sci-fi/horror/Western/adventure films," says Scott Weinberg, Publisher and critical to grafi. "It was really good to take all the things he likes and combining them into something unique."
Carpenter has never worked with a predominantly female cast before, and he said that he liked it. "They came every day ready to go:" Whaddaya got for me today, coach? ". »
Heard is no stranger to the films of genre itself, and she jumped at the chance to work with a legend - even if it meant turning to a mental institution to Spokane, Wash.
What she has surprised most, however, how gentle he was. "Someone as sweet as John Carpenter is not what I expected," said. "He respects and protects its strong female leads, and it is rare."
Carpenter said that he recently met on "a very commercial film" but recognized that the days are probably missing when he wears the hats of writer, Director, composer and actor sometimes on the same set of film.
But he is happy to take control of those who want to remake its movies, such as Rob Zombie, who made the "Halloween" reboot.
"I am not anxious to be a pioneer," he said. "God, no.". I am just happy to be around after all these years. »
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