Assault on Precinct 13 is an R-rated action thriller released in 1976. It was directed and edited by the legendary John Carpenter, who is known for his work on iconic films like The Thing, Big Trouble in Little China, Christine, andHalloween.
Assault on Precinct 13 was one of his films with a smaller budget. He was asked to create it for under $100,000, but he would be given full creative control. Although this film wasn’t originally a smash at the box office, it became a cult classic over the years. There was even a remake created in 2005, starring Laurence Fishburne and John Leguizamo.
In an interview with BFI, originally published in 1978, Carpenter spoke about the way the original film was shot. “When you use the camera to express an emotion by an exaggerated angle or something, that is fine, but if you have to do it because what is happening on the screen is not interesting or compelling enough, then you’re in trouble,” he said.
“I shot the opening of Assault on Precinct 13 myself, using a hand-held camera, following the gang coming out of a doorway and walking down an alley, then they hear something but go on and are suddenly gunned down, and you look up and see the police ambush above. I knew that it would be a bit self-conscious, but that people would pay attention to it right away, and then I could get on with the film and move them into it.”
Carpenter also spoke about injecting humor into his films. “I began with a very serious idea about people being attacked which began to become humorous to me,” he said. “So it arises out of the situation rather than the decision, well, I’m going to make this funny. The first part of the picture, setting up the characters and the conflict, before they all arrive at the police station, is fairly straight, because I’ve learned that you want to take an audience up to a certain point and set them up, let them know what’s going to happen. Then I begin dropping in the humor… because the audience by that point is hooked.”
Assault on Precinct 13 has a 94 percent critic rating onRotten Tomatoes with one reviewer saying, "Perhaps Carpenter's best film next to The Thing, this is a model of low-budget filmmaking, with a tight script, appropriately tight-lipped actors and atmospheric location shooting."
The film was recently named one of the "Perfect Action Movies That Are About 90 Minutes Long" by Collider, so you can watch it in under two hours. It is currently available to rent on Amazon Prime Video.
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