“Assault on Precinct 13” is a riveting crime drama movie about a handful of police officers and a few civilians defending a police station against an attack by a large and unrelenting gang. Director-screenwriter John Carpenter (“Escape from New York” 1981) put together a film with excellent pacing and lots of action sequences filled with suspense worthy of Alfred Hitchcock. Carpenter also wrote the innovative musical score and edited the picture under the name of John T. Chance.
The cast includes Austin Stoker, Darwin Joston, Laurie Zimmer, Martin West, Tony Burton, Charles Cyphers, Nancy Loomis, Frank Doubleday, Kim Richards, Henry Brandon, Gilman Rankin, and Peter Bruni as the ice cream truck driver. The watchable thriller “Assault on Precinct 13” was a modest success at the box office for producers John Carpenter and J. S. Kaplan, The CKK Corporation, and Turtle Releasing Organization. It was filmed in color with the trailers in black-and-white, and has become quite a “cult classic” in recent years.
Assault on Precinct 13 (1976)
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My Review
“Assault on Precinct 13” is a riveting crime drama movie about a handful of police officers and a few civilians defending a police station against an attack by a large and unrelenting gang. Director-screenwriter John Carpenter (“Escape from New York” 1981) put together a film with excellent pacing and lots of action sequences filled with suspense worthy of Alfred Hitchcock. Carpenter also wrote the innovative musical score and edited the picture under the name of John T. Chance.
The cast includes Austin Stoker, Darwin Joston, Laurie Zimmer, Martin West, Tony Burton, Charles Cyphers, Nancy Loomis, Frank Doubleday, Kim Richards, Henry Brandon, Gilman Rankin, and Peter Bruni as the ice cream truck driver. The watchable thriller “Assault on Precinct 13” was a modest success at the box office for producers John Carpenter and J. S. Kaplan, The CKK Corporation, and Turtle Releasing Organization. It was filmed in color with the trailers in black-and-white, and has become quite a “cult classic” in recent years.