WTF Wednesday: John Carpenter’s Cathedral Listening Party Double Feature
BlobCo and Storm King Comics present WTF Wednesday: John Carpenter’s Cathedral Listening Party Double Feature!
Be among the first audiences in the world to experience a brand new sonic nightmare, from John Carpenter, with a special video intro from The Horror Master himself!
An abandoned cathedral. A gruesome murder. A powerful supernatural entity living in the catacombs. It all comes to a head in downtown Los Angeles. What will happen and who will live to tell the tale? Such is the storyline of Cathedral, the thrilling new album and terrifying graphic novel from director and musician John Carpenter, based on a dream Carpenter had in 2024.
Cathedral has all the drama, dark atmosphere, and frenetic pacing of a classic heavy metal record. Especially designed as the soundtrack to the graphic novel, each track corresponds to a specific section of the book. The liner notes included with the album packaging feature prompts for each track, creating a fully interactive experience. Combined with the graphic novel, it’s the closest thing to a new John Carpenter film in years.
Following the Cathedral Listening Party stick around for a screening of John Carpenter’s Prince of Darkness, featuring one of Carpenter’s most complete and aurally unnerving scores (in collaboration with Alan Howarth).
Want to take the terror home? The complete John Carpenter’s Cathedral Bundle, featuring the graphic novel, and a Limited Edition Amethyst LP* is available for purchase with a special discount for Rosendale Theatre Members!
Note: LPs will not be available for pickup until Friday, August 7th at the Rosendale Theatre Box Office or World’s End Comics in Kingston.
WTF Wednesday: John Carpenter’s CATHEDRAL Listening Party Double Feature (w/ Prince of Darkness)
Wednesday, August 5
Doors: 7
Listening Party: 7:30
Ticket/Book/Album Bundle: $65 General / $60 Member
Ticket + Album: $44 General / $40 Member
Ticket: $20 General / $16 Member
About John Carpenter’s Cathedral (The Graphic Novel):
In the middle of downtown Los Angeles, an abandoned cathedral stands, fenced in and ignored by the world around it. The preoccupied passers-by have long since ceased to notice the dilapidated church in their midst, never mind sensing the danger and centuries old evil trapped inside its walls. A gruesome murder one late night pulls the structure into the spotlight, triggering a police investigation into the loss of one of their own.
Lieutenant Christine Marks, along with detectives Paul Hernandez and Steve Mayfield, must enter the church in search of the monster that murdered her father. Every step takes them deeper into the belly of the church revealing the mystery of an ancient evil imprisoned within. For centuries, shamans, warriors and priests have fought a powerful demon, holding it to this piece of earth. Now it’s trying to rise again, and these three must learn the secrets of those who’ve gone before them in order to find the demon and end the centuries long battle, once and for all. Their stamina, resolve and faith will all be tested and every small victory along the way brings them closer and closer to indescribable horrors only hinted at in myths and nightmares.
Written by John Carpenter, Sandy King and Sean Sobczak
Art by Federico De Luca
Art by Luis Guaragna
Colors by Sian Mandrake
Lettering by Marshall Dillon
About John Carpenter’s Cathedral (The Album):
The music on Cathedral retains all the eerie atmosphere and sinister propulsion of the epochal scores Carpenter created for his films Halloween, The Fog, and Assault on Precinct 13, but this is a much heavier, riff-driven enterprise. Carpenter is a firm believer that music plays a major role in what really makes something scary. That’s first and foremost,” the director says. “It’s all about making the music work.” “This is somewhat different sounding stuff that we’ve done, but it’s done with the same desire in mind,” he adds. “In other words, put this thing on and imagine you’re watching a movie. That’s what we want you to do.”
Daniel Davies’ soaring, snaky guitars take center stage on opener “Primeval,” “Elevator,” and the metal masterpiece “Lord of the Underground” while John Carpenter and Cody Carpenter’s synths take the lead on the ominous “Desolation in the Underworld,” the plaintive “Death of the Mapmaker,” and even converge with strings on “Abandoned Cathedral.”
Whereas the Lost Themes albums were written as scores to movies of the mind, Cathedral scores the first original graphic novel written by Carpenter, his wife and long-time creative partner, producer and editor Sandy King, and writer Sean Sobczak, published by Storm King Comics. As with all of Carpenter’s musical forays of the last decade-plus, the album will be released by Sacred Bones.
Cathedral awaits. Immerse yourself in John Carpenter’s universe all over again.
About John Carpenter’s Prince of Darkness:
Master of horror John Carpenter (Halloween, The Thing) directs this terrifying battle between mankind and the ultimate evil.
A group of graduate students and scientists uncover an ancient canister in an abandoned church, but when they open it, they inadvertently unleash a strange liquid and an evil force on all of humanity. As the liquid turns their co-workers into zombies, the remaining members realize they have released the most unspeakable horror of them all.
Terror mounts as the team must fight to save the world from a devilish fury that has been contained for over seven million years.
Starring Donald Pleasence, Victor Wong, Jameson Parker, and Lisa Blount.
