Episode 516: Assault on Precinct 13 (1976)

The Projection Booth Podcast

The Projection Booth

Film Reviews, Film Interviews, Film History, Tv & Film

4.8 • 686 Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2021

⏱️ 179 minutes

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Summary

We kick off a two-part discussion of John Carpenter with a look at his first proper feature film, Assault on Precinct 13. Father Malone (Dark Destinations) and Aaron Peterson (Hollywood Outsider) join Mike to look at the film and all of its various remakes (Ghosts of Mars, District B13, etc).

Troy Howarth talks about his new books, Assault on the System: The Nonconformist Cinema of John Carpenter, and Tommy Wallace discusses his work on Assault on Precinct 13 as well as many of his follow-up films.
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0:22.4	in the projection booth. Everyone pretend podcasting isn't boring.
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0:51.0	You've got your weapons and place your hands above your heads.
0:55.5	On Saturday, six members of the gang known as Street Thunder
0:56.6	were ambushed by the police.
1:00.0	On Sunday,
1:00.5	the warlords of Street Thunders
1:02.6	swore a blood oath
1:03.5	to avenge their dead.
1:05.4	For the gang called Street Thunder,
1:08.0	it is a day of vengeance.
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