@judgedread

> Carpenter never founded a genre.

Sure (though maybe you could say slashers); just the "Romero dead" made me think "Oh, no, who else?"

> That's a trick - it was a special aperture that exposed shorter frames on the same film stock, so you got 1.5 or so times as much footage from the same length of celluloid

Very cool. I had read only a little about this but it's interesting. (Got hung up on the audio encoding, as optical sound encoding starting back in the 1930s was kind of amazing.)