Judgment night soundtrack cd9/4/2023 Seaman‘s 2016 horror movie The Barn (from Terror Films), a retro throwback horror movie that took you back to 1989. 25 years later, we can appreciate the classic it has become. Unfortunately, Judgment Night would bomb at the box office after being pulled from theaters following a widely publicized shooting. It was interesting for me, because I’d only just made sci-fi movies at that point I wanted to try something more realistic.” (Thanks to CoS for the transcription.) “There were months and months of script meetings – there were rooftop motorcycle chases, but we ended up in a grittier vibe. We wanted to work hard to get it right, and not make it about something that wasn’t just about rape – a lot of these urban stories are about that. I was given a lot of scripts, and it was quite a long process. “They’d actually been wanting to make this film for a long time, and there were all sorts of scripts, from people like John Carpenter and Gary Cunningham – different versions that involved bikers in the desert of LA, and things like that. Larry Gordon started his own production company called Largo, and I think was the first film to come out of that,” Hopkins told the audience at the Q+A. “I’d done Predator 2 with Larry Gordon and Joel Silver, who were partners at the time shortly afterward, they had a very bitter split. The 1993 masterpiece, about four friends who get lost in the streets of Chicago on their way to a boxing match, boasted one of cinemas best ensembles: Emilio Estevez, Cuba Gooding Jr., Jeremy Piven, and Stephen Dorff, with Denis Leary making his feature debut as the film’s antagonist.ĪLSO READ: Kevin Spacey and John Travolta Could Have Starred in Judgment Night No word on what it was about, but it’s interesting to think what would have happened if they moved forward with a Carpenter-penned version of Judgment Night. According to the filmmaker, the producers had wanted to create a film in the spirit of The Warriors and had commisioned several screenplays. It also features that highly sought after collaboration between Pearl Jam & Cypress Hill and Ice-T and Slayer manage to thrash it out on an unsurpassed level!Īvailable as a limited edition of 5000 individually numbered copies on flaming (orange & yellow swirled) vinyl.Director Stephen Hopkins dropped this fun little nugget at the Q+A following the 25th-anniversary screening of his Judgment Night at the ongoing Cinepocalypse film festival here in Chicago. Judgment Night spawned four singles: Biohazard & Onyx’s “Judgment Night”, Helmet & House Of Pain’s “Just Another Victim”, Teenage Fanclub & De La Soul’s “Fallin” and Faith No More & Boo-Yaa T.R.I.B.E.’s “Another Body Murdered”. It turned out to be quite a fruitful collaboration while the film bombed, the soundtrack went gold. and Pearl Jam with Cypress Hill, among others, the album represented a bold leap into a then fledgling genre that up until then had mostly been a collection of one-off singles. ![]() With a track list that teamed Helmet with House Of Pain, Slayer with Ice-T, Faith No More with Boo-Yaa T.R.I.B.E. ![]() ![]() The collaborations were put together by Happy Walters, who at the time managed Cypress Hill, House Of Pain and more, and was still getting his Immortal Records label off the ground. The soundtrack to Judgment Night has had a lasting impact thanks to its ground breaking approach. And what better music to accompany this middle-class nightmare than a hybrid of the music suburbanites seemed most afraid of Rap and Rock. The 1993 film Judgment Night was suburbia’s paranoid view of inner-city life, where the slightest misplaced step (such as trying to take a shortcut to a boxing match) has fateful, if not fatal, consequences.
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