With a new Jurassic Park coming up on the big screen this month, after a long decade of silence, you knew I had to revisit this cult franchise on my blog at some point.
Always a personal cult favorite film of mine. I mean, who doesn't love dinosaurs?
While we never got a proper follow-up to John Carpenter's The Thing (aside from video game & comics continuations and a Hollywood-produced prequel), what we got instead where thematically similar films, Carpenter's own spiritual successor to the thing. The first one in 1987 was John Carpenter's Prince of Darkness, with this 1995 film forming what is collectively known as John Carpenter's "Apocalypse Trilogy".
It might not be Hollywood's idea of a "sequel", but this is as good as it gets. Same creator, same subject and different execution. Here's John Carpenter's In the Mouth of Madness...