Home Creators Posts Import Register Favorites Logout

Downloads

Content

Another month means another theme on the old Watchcast, and this month's was voted on by our patrons! They chose "Some Guys Are Coming to Kill Us", and to kick things off we've turned to a familiar and favorite director in John Carpenter and his '70s exploitation classic, Assault on Precinct 13!

CHAPTERS:

(00:00:00) - NOTE: Some timecodes may be inaccurate in versions other than the ad-free Patreon version due to dynamic ad insertions. Please use caution if skipping around to avoid spoilers. Thanks for listening.(00:00:21) - Intro for our theme: Some Guys Are Coming to Kill Us, and this week's movie, Assault on Precinct 13!(00:08:21) - The '70s-ness of the whole thing.(00:12:35) - Alex, how did this movie get made?(00:16:26) - Our cast of mostly unknowns.(00:25:09) - Setting up all the threads that lead to the titular assault.(00:38:21) - Meeting the doomed dad and daughter.(00:49:13) - Break!(00:49:33) - We're back, all the people are in place, it's time for things to pop off.(00:54:03) - Hot damn does Carpenter love his sequences that go on way longer than you'd expect.(00:58:04) - Nothing good can ever come from having a jar of blood chucked at you.(01:05:54) - The assault is over! Everything's OK, right? Right?!?(01:09:11) - Leigh is kinda the secret bad-ass of this movie. Also, poor Wells.(01:15:04) - A last stand plan begins to form.(01:21:32) - And just like that, it's all over.(01:27:33) - Final thoughts.(01:35:22) - Outro.

Files

Comments

Tom Ma

I just watched this film earlier and it's terrific!

WulfBane

Brad wasn’t off in the zombie movie vibes. The wikipedia article says that Night of the Living Dead was another influence on the story in addition to Rio Bravo. And TBH, I see the Night of the Living Dead more than Rio Bravo with them being trapped and under siege by a relentless force. I would suppose the aspect where the gang is in control of the territory vs a small handful of lawmen and those he could muster to their side could be akin to the cowboys in Rio Bravo.

Zeenius

I've noticed all of these John Carpenter movie villains being some sort of zombie-esque beings often voiceless or devoid of motive. Halloween and Prince of Darkness especially and now this one. Is it something he's particularly interested in? I have to imagine the low-budget feeling of most of his works factors into it as well. "Let's just make them normal people. The monster part is beneath the skin". But it makes for effective filmmaking nonetheless. Whether it became his style by pure coincidence or not it's interesting.

Michael

Just want to say these have been great podcasts, thanks for it :)

Shane W

Thanks for covering this, Gents. I first saw AoP13 when I was a teenager in the early 80ies. My sister was around six years old and this movie really hit me. Hard. Totally brutal. Awesome characters and premise. The music (as usual) is ahead of its time.

MartianAttacks

I was laughing every time Wilson kept trying to subtly plug his backstory. "I'll never tell... or will I. Hey, remind me to tell you why I'm called Napoleon."

SteelSwitch

Alex - I have no clue why you think this is better than the remake. This is utter garbage and makes zero sense. - Love the podcast

Lorddemon2

Alex- have you seen the French remake? The Nest (AKA: Nid de guêpes). Been a bit since I’ve watched it, but remember it being pretty good.

Mr. Samuel Scratch

There's also the fact that the criminals have no spoken dialog and the whole "mysterious cough" on the prison bus.

Mr. Samuel Scratch

I remember the remake being fine-but-forgettable, but this? This was weird and grimy and dark and still somehow maintained Carpenter's anti-authority aesthetic, despite centering on cops VS dehumanized monsters resembling criminals.

Alexander Kuhn

At 1:20:10 in this podcast Alex mixes up infer and imply. For shame!