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The Nextlander Watchcast 043: Assault on Precinct 13 (1976)
🕑 Added 2023-05-01 22:10:29 +0000 UTCAnother 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.
Comments
Alexander Kuhn
At 1:20:10 in this podcast Alex mixes up infer and imply. For shame!
Dr. Judge, Private Eye
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.
