Archive of films Big Trouble in Little China / Big Trouble in Little China

USA
1986, 99 min

Section: Midnight Screenings
Year: 2018

Never take a guy’s wheels. Ripped-off truck driver Jack Burton sets out for Little China in order to do battle against the aged Chinese demon Lo Pan and rescue two green-eyed beauties. And, actually, save the world to boot. All in a day’s work.


Synopsis

“It’s all in the reflexes.” Kurt Russell as a wisecracking, cool-hand truck driver, who sports a wife-beater and a well-groomed mullet and has a solution to every problem. After his friend Wang’s girlfriend is kidnapped (and Jack’s truck is stolen), they head to San Francisco’s Chinatown to take back what belongs to them. What follows, however, is no atmospheric neo-noir but a B-grade fantasy horror flick that never takes itself seriously, not even for a moment. Thousand-year-old Chinese demons, flying kung fu fighters, thunder, lightning, machine guns, and exploding bad guys – everything demanding audiences expect from quality cinema. Round that out with loads of lowbrow humor and even lower-brow synthesizer music. Leave logic behind and just enjoy yourself.

Nikola Paggio

About the director

John Carpenter

John Carpenter (b. 1948, Carthage, New York, USA). Selected filmography: Assault on Precinct 13 (1976), Halloween (1978), Escape From New York (1981), The Thing (1982), Starman (1984), Big Trouble in Little China (1986), They Live (1988), In the Mouth of Madness (1994), Vampires (1998), The Ward (2010)

Contacts

Park Circus Group
15 Woodside Crescent, G37UL, Glasgow
United Kingdom
Tel: +44 141 332 2175
E-mail: [email protected]
www: www.parkcircus.com

About the film

Color, DCP

Section: Midnight Screenings
   
Director: John Carpenter
Screenplay: Gary Goldman, David Z. Weinstein, W. D. Richter
Dir. of Photography: Dean Cundey
Music: John Carpenter, Alan Howarth
Editor: Steve Mirkovich, Mark Warner, Edward A. Warschilka
Art Director: Les Gobruegge
Producer: Larry J. Franco
Production: 20th Century Fox
Cast: Kurt Russell, Kim Cattrall, Dennis Dun
Sales: Park Circus Group
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