10 Horror Movie Trilogies That Absolutely Kill It
2. John Carpenter's Apocalypse Trilogy
Alongside directing the likes of They Live and Escape from New York, John Carpenter is the creative force behind numerous horror heavyweights. Some of his best works have been collected into what's become known as his Apocalypse Trilogy.
Comprised of The Thing, Prince of Darkness, and In the Mouth of Madness, each film, despite being its own separate entity, tackles similar themes of paranoia and isolation as the characters face potentially world-ending terrors.
In body horror classic The Thing, these ideas surfaced when a group of Arctic researchers fall prey to a shapeshifting alien creature. In Prince of Darkness, the threat came in the form of a manifestation of pure evil that desires to bring about the literal apocalypse. In the Mouth of Madness took these themes to Lovecraftian heights as reality and fiction blended as an insurance investigator hunts down the whereabouts of a horror author whose writing changes the fabric of reality.
Although each movie is wildly different, all three pictures blend cosmic and body horror to remarkable, and even brain-bending, effect. It's because of films like these that John Carpenter has earned his reputation as one of the all-time great horror filmmakers.