Fake John Carpenter Letterboxd account delights the internet, confuses the real John Carpenter
What the hell is a Letterboxd!??
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Sorry, folks: John Carpenter doesn’t actually hate his own movies. (You’ll have to turn to Davids Lynch and Fincher for that.) If you missed the hullabaloo this morning and are wondering how anyone could possibly think that John Carpenter hated his own movies, a (now-deleted) Letterboxd account wantonly posing as the famed Halloween director holds the answer. Even though the account had only about 100 followers before it was slashed, it was filled with parody gold like “I fucking hate this pile of shit and want every copy burned” for his 1992 film, Memoirs Of An Invisible Man (well, he actually kind of did hate that one) and the following for Halloween II, which we’ll just let you experience for yourself:
They paid me more money than I had ever seen to write a sequel to a film that did not need one. I took the check and spent it on beers to get me drunk enough to plow through this crap. I looked at the final script, which took a whopping 2 days to write, and said “wow, now that’s a piece of shit.” And it was.
I had faith in Rick Rosenthal and he did not deliver. I suppose I expected him to be a miracle worker and nobody could’ve made this work. I don’t regret hiring him.
Here are a few other gems from the account’s brief life. You can probably see why people so badly wanted to believe it was real.
Absolutely incredible things happening on John Carpenter’s letterboxd account pic.twitter.com/OaxrkxkYEl
— Haunted Hippie🔪 (@kyjohnz) September 26, 2024