Assault on Precinct 13 (1976)

"It’s a fleet, ferocious piece of genre craftsmanship."

"A joy to behold: a taut, aesthetic blast of violence."

"One of the most effective exploitation movies of the decade... It's sheer delight from beginning to end."

"This early Carpenter movie still holds up as one of the director's best works."

"The core reason this film works so well is that it is so unpredictable, ruthless and without reason."

"[A] lean, mean, genre-defying masterpiece."

"Mr. Carpenter is an extremely resourceful director whose ability to construct films entirely out of action and movement suggests that he may one day be a director to rank with Don Siegel."

"Hopelessly violent but exceedingly well made."

"In Assault On Precinct 13, hell is an abandoned police station in Los Angeles and the only means of survival is cooperation across racial, class, and legal lines."