Assault on Precinct 13 (1976)

For no good reason, I often get the title of this (and its remake) confused with The Taking of Pelham 123 and its remakes. Because of this, I had pushed watching this up in my queue after seeing the two versions of the latter. When six members of a street gang are killed in a police ambush, their leaders pledge a blood oath to enact revenge on the LAPD and the city at large. It’s like if the gangs in The Warriors went after everyone else in the city instead of terrorizing the Warriors and it’s wonderful. One of their first murders establishes very quickly that they’re not messing around and it only gets bloodier as they lay siege to the decommissioned precinct. I don’t remember a lot about the remake. Even though I’m sure it doesn’t hold a candle to the original, I’m going to try to get my hands on a copy. As an added note, I don’t have a lot of experience with his films to know if it’s standard Carpenter flair, but the intro music and credits seemed excellently imitated in Stranger Things.