It was literally a series of Earth-shattering events, the very ground splitting open and letting loose prehistoric monsters whose revealed existence shocked and terrified those who were unfortunate
A flexible film style, the western has continually reinvented itself for new generations. A setting as much as a genre, this allows other genres to be overlaid on
Even in the eclectic resume of John Carpenter which runs from the science fiction stoner comedy of his 1974 debut Dark Star through the western influenced police station