A highway patrol officer, two criminals, and a station secretary form an unlikely alliance to defend a defunct Los Angeles precinct against a siege by a bloodthirsty street gang.
Score
Carpenter's synth pulse invented tension.
Direction
Rio Bravo fanfiction, executed flawlessly.
Editing
Ruthless 91 minutes, zero fat.
Director
John Carpenter
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Carpenter wrote, directed, and scored this in 35 days for $150,000 — his synth theme was recorded in a single take.
This is literally Rio Bravo remade as urban siege; Hawks' influence so blatant Carpenter named the convict 'Napoleon Wilson' as an anagrammatic nod.
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