Assault on Precinct 13

Well, John Carpenter really loved Howard Hawks and George A. Romero, huh? His second film, Assault on Precinct 13, is a mashup of Rio Bravo and Night of the Living Dead so obvious that it could have been a concept conceived by Max Landis. That’s not the denigrate the film which is a perfectly solid urban thriller with strong character work and a wonderful sense of efficiency, but jeez, the mashup is just so on the nose, you know?

The film is about a remote, mostly decommissioned police st...