No, John Carpenter Is Not Talking Smack on Letterboxd

Earlier today, a tweet went viral claiming that horror master John Carpenter was posting disparaging, adjacent shit-talking reviews of his ain enactment (as good arsenic different films, including the caller Reagan biopic) connected the movie-watching societal level Letterboxd. Carpenter is simply a legendary curmudgeon, but the information that anyone believed the posts were existent is simply a charming reminder that determination are inactive gullible radical online.

The archetypal station has since been deleted, arsenic has the faux-Carpenter’s Letterboxd page, but not earlier others joined successful the amusive and shared immoderate of “John Carpenter’s” reviews. Just a fewer examples:

Thread of John Carpenter’s funniest letterboxd reviews. pic.twitter.com/nvMvD62oH9

— A existent quality being (@DomARealHuman) September 26, 2024

I bash kinda respect the chutzpah of John Carpenter giving his ain filmography prima ratings.

Even if he’s waaaaay excessively harsh connected “The Fog.” pic.twitter.com/yrWntVZAsO

— Darren Mooney (@Darren_Mooney) September 26, 2024

It’s unclear if the X users who shared the reviews believed it was really the manager of They Live, Halloween, The Thing, and Escape From New York posting nether his ain sanction connected Letterboxd—and surely immoderate of the “likes” the tweets received were from radical knowingly enjoying a parody account. But some, it seems, whitethorn person really fallen for the prank—and on with it, seemingly believed that Carpenter neither knows however to spell “embarrassing,” nor has any affection for the pupil film-turned-cult favourite that catapulted him into his agelong career, 1974’s Dark Star.

Speaking to Variety past twelvemonth (the aforesaid chat successful which helium described his cleanable time arsenic “Get up late, ticker a small news, play a video game, ticker immoderate basketball, spell to bed”), Carpenter made a constituent of saying “I don’t measure myself.” He was reluctant to reply a question astir what his top accomplishment is arsenic a filmmaker, saying lone that he’s astir arrogant of The Thing. “I truly deliberation I did a large occupation with that. I would emotion to person made much superior films similar that, that aren’t teenage movies and not geared to young people. That was a movie I’m arrogant of. I don’t cognize what my spot is. I person nary clue.”

X yet stepped up to stock a “readers added context” disclaimer connected the archetypal thread sharing the faux reviews, reminding the net that 1 request lone bash the bare minimum successful peeling backmost the layers of a societal media relationship to debar being duped. But if that wasn’t enough, Carpenter himself stepped into the fray, posting the cleanable case-closed response:

What the hellhole is simply a Letterboxd!??

— John Carpenter (@TheHorrorMaster) September 26, 2024

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