Storm King Productions

Background
This is Sandy King ' s production company. It produced two John Carpenter movies, Vampires and Ghosts of Mars; both were released by Sony Pictures Entertainment (Vampires was released by Columbia Pictures and co-produced by Largo Entertainment, while Ghosts of Mars was released by Screen Gems Pictures). Neither film was critically nor financially successful; the failure of Ghosts of Mars in particular led Carpenter to leave Hollywood for good. While Carpenter would later stage a comeback of sorts (directing The Ward and more recently producing the Peacock original series Suburban Screams), Storm King has been in dormancy since the release of Ghosts of Mars.

Logo (October 30, 1998-August 24, 2001)
Visuals: A quickly-spinning film reel pops out on a black background. A filmstrip spills out of the reel. As the reel continues spinning and spilling the filmstrip, the camera zooms out until the film reel is at an comfortable distance. Lightning strikes the reel, and the filmstrip immediately becomes a white lightning bolt. At the same time, the reel stops spinning and it and the bolt are contained within a box; almost the whole reel is cropped off by the box. What is left of the reel glows white. Below the box, the words

S T O R M K I N G PRODUCTIONS

appear. "S T O R M K I N G" is larger than "PRODUCTIONS". The words have a white drop shadow.

Variant: A still variant appears on AMC's print of Ghosts of Mars and at the end of Vampires (including BBC America's print).

Technique: Appears to be CGI.

Audio: The closing theme of the film.

Availability: Only known to appear at the end of John Carpenter's Vampires and Ghosts of Mars.