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This one is billed as one of, if not THE, best films by John Carpenter , and i've gotta say: It lives up to the hype..
It is also billed as (According to quotes on the box for the video): "One of Quentin Tarantino's favorite films..".. I can definitely see that as being a truth..
The story revolves around a small group of people who end up barricaded inside the soon-to-be-shut-down Police Precinct number 13, in Los Angeles, fighting for their lives as they are held under siege by a vicious LA street gang..
Considering the Cast is strewn with the likes of Austin Stoker, Darwin Joston, Laurie Zimmer (who reminded me a WHOLE lot of Meg Foster), Nancy "I was in Halloween" Loomis and Charles "I was in Halloween I and II" Cyphers, i have to say that the acting is top-notch.. You WILL care about these characters!
Every review i read of this movie describes it as being a precursor to Carpenter's later classics "Halloween" and "Escape from New York", and that to, is a truth. You can definitely see the seeds planted here that would eventually sprout those 2 horror films;
From the Halloween Stable:
The idea of the phone lines being cut from the outside, an evil that is seemingly unstoppable and who doesn't seem to have a motive to it's madness..
From the Escape from New York Stable:
The idea of being stranded in a world with no order, only chaos.. No hope, only death..
All those ideas are here in "Assault on Precinct 13", a film i HIGHLY recommend..
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The way the film is played out reminded me ALOT of George Romero's "Night of the Living Dead", from the predominant good-guy being a Black man among a sea of Whites, to the way that the badguys were pretty much faceless 'zombies' that seemed to number in the hundreds..
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