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  • Christine
  • Christine review by from Berkshire
    Rated - 4 stars The cars the star... 27 December 2004
    ...I was drawn to watch this when I noticed it was a John Carpenter film based on a Stephen King story. The story follows an old car that falls in love with its owner (stay with...  
  • The Thing
  • The Thing review by jezfernandez from Oxford, England
    Rated - 5 stars A Genuine Classic 3 March 2004
    ...Set in the frozen wastes of Antarctica, 1982, John Carpenter brings us a genuine ?re-imagining? of Howard Hawkes? 1957 classic, ?The Thing From Another World?. The premise is...  
  • Assault On Precinct 13
  • Assault On Precinct 13 review by from coatbridge
    Rated - 5 stars classic!!!!!! 8 February 2005
    ...g to the movies to see the new version i rented the original & have to say that John Carpenter's is far & away the best. from the typical scene setting score to the b-movie a...  

John Carpenter - filmography


  • John Carpenter's Vampires on DVD (1998)
    Starring: James Woods,  Daniel Baldwin,  Sheryl Lee
    Director: John Carpenter
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Prolific director John Carpenter takes on the vampire genre in his action-horror film VAMPIRES. Bitter, tough-as-nails vampire hunter Jack Crow (James Woods) leads a specialized team, funded by no less than the Vatican, that is dedicated to destroying the race of vampires that inhabit the earth. ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 58% from 3,620 members
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  • Escape From L.A. on DVD (1996)
    Starring: Kurt Russell,  Stacy Keach,  Steve Buscemi
    Director: John Carpenter
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    When John Carpenter and Kurt Russell teamed up for this sequel to ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK, the idea was to kick butt and have fun. They do just that in ESCAPE FROM L.A., an explosive film that recalls the classic original in all the best ways. Infamous adventurer Snake Plissken gets another raw deal ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 57% from 4,549 members
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  • Escape From L.A. - BLU-RAY Version (1996)
    Starring: Kurt Russell,  Stacy Keach,  Steve Buscemi
    Director: John Carpenter
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    When John Carpenter and Kurt Russell teamed up for this sequel to ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK, the idea was to kick butt and have fun. They do just that in ESCAPE FROM L.A., an explosive film that recalls the classic original in all the best ways. Infamous adventurer Snake Plissken gets another raw deal ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 64 members
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  • Memoirs Of An Invisible Man on DVD (1992)
    Starring: Chevy Chase,  Daryl Hannah,  Sam Neill
    Director: John Carpenter
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Chevy Chase stars as Nick Holloway in John Carpenter's comedy as a man who seems to have everything but then ends up with the unwanted bonus of being invisible. The CIA are after Nick (who wouldn't want an invisible agent), but all he wants to do is settle down with Alice (played by Darryl Hannah) ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 59% from 928 members
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  • They Live - BLU-RAY Version (1988)
    Starring: Roddy Piper,  Keith David,  Meg Foster
    Director: John Carpenter
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    John Nada (Roddy Piper) is a quiet loner, a drifter who gets work where ever he can find it. While working on a construction site in L.A. and sleeping in a vagrant community at night, John stumbles upon a secret society of alien beings who pose as wealthy and powerful people in human society. John ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 154 members
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  • They Live on DVD (1988)
    Starring: Roddy Piper,  Keith David,  Meg Foster
    Director: John Carpenter
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    John Nada (Roddy Piper) is a quiet loner, a drifter who gets work where ever he can find it. While working on a construction site in L.A. and sleeping in a vagrant community at night, John stumbles upon a secret society of alien beings who pose as wealthy and powerful people in human society. John ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 3,957 members
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  • Prince Of Darkness (1987)
    Starring: Donald Pleasence,  Lisa Blount,  Victor Wong
    Director: John Carpenter
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Director John Carpenter creates a film that is genuinely scary with PRINCE OF DARKNESS. Graduate students are confronted with pure evil when they go to study a container of strange ooze discovered in the basement of an abandoned church. The ooze is released and all hell, quite literally, breaks ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 60% from 1,620 member
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  • Starman on DVD (1984)
    Starring: Jeff Bridges,  Karen Allen,  Charles Martin Smith
    Director: John Carpenter
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    A departure for director John Carpenter, STARMAN is a gentle, simple film that won accolades from critics and applause from audiences. Jeff Bridges plays the title character, an alien that has come down to Earth on a peaceful scouting mission. When he takes the form of a recently widowed woman's ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 2,458 members
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  • The Thing on DVD (1982)
    Starring: Kurt Russell,  T.K. Carter,  Richard Dysart
    Director: John Carpenter
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Based on both the short story by John W. Campbell, Jr. and the 1951 film produced by Howard Hawks, THE THING is John Carpenter's stunning masterpiece of horror. A group of weary scientists enduring the winter in an isolated camp deep in Antarctica chance upon an alien spacecraft buried in the ice. ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 19,837 members
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  • Thing, The - HD DVD Version (1982)
    Starring: Kurt Russell,  T.K. Carter,  Richard Dysart
    Director: John Carpenter
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Based on both the short story by John W. Campbell, Jr. and the 1951 film produced by Howard Hawks, THE THING is John Carpenter's stunning masterpiece of horror. A group of weary scientists enduring the winter in an isolated camp deep in Antarctica chance upon an alien spacecraft buried in the ice. ..read more »
    Rate this: 4 stars out of 5 79% from 752 members
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  • Escape From New York on DVD (1981)
    Starring: Isaac Hayes,  Harry Dean Stanton,  Donald Pleasence
    Director: John Carpenter
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Another John Carpenter cult classic, 'Escape From New York' was one of the best entries in the once popular post-apocalyptic genre which included 'Road Warrior' and 'The Terminator'. In 1997, the island of Manhattan has been turned into the world's largest maximum-security prison, a place where the ..read more »
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  • The Fog on DVD (1979)
    Starring: John Houseman,  Janet Leigh,  Hal Holbrook
    Director: John Carpenter
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Director John Carpenter creates an old-fashioned campfire ghost story with THE FOG. Antonio Bay, a quaint, small seaside town is celebrating the 100th anniversary of its founding. That night a heavy, mysterious fog rolls through the town and people begin to die in savage ways. Rumors of a secret as ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 63% from 8,678 members
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  • Fog, The - HD DVD Version (1979)
    Starring: John Houseman,  Janet Leigh,  Hal Holbrook
    Director: John Carpenter
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Antonio Bay, a quaint, small seaside town is celebrating the 100th anniversary of its founding. That night a heavy, mysterious fog rolls through the town and people begin to die in savage ways. Rumours of a secret as old as the town begin to surface and the people of Antonio Bay realise they are ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 63% from 287 members
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  • Halloween on DVD (1978)
    Starring: P.J. Soles,  Nancy Loomis,  Donald Pleasence
    Director: John Carpenter
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Perhaps the most influential and successful independent film ever made, HALLOWEEN is the movie that put director John Carpenter on the map as a viable filmmaker. An exercise in simple, pure horror, HALLOWEEN takes us into the world of a mad killer, Michael Myers, who at a very young age stabbed his ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 11,546 members
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  • Assault On Precinct 13 on DVD (1976)
    Starring: Austin Stoker,  Darwin Joston,  Laurie Zimmer
    Director: John Carpenter
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Director John Carpenter's second film is a brutal, realistic story about the siege of a small police precinct by a violent and well-armed gang. The gang is seeking the man who killed some of their members in revenge for the accidental shooting of his daughter. After the father enacts his revenge, ..read more »
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  • Dark Star on DVD (1974)
    Starring: Brian Narelle,  Dan O'Bannon,  Dre Pahich
    Director: John Carpenter
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    The first film from John Carpenter is a hilarious romp in a not-so-glamourous spaceship into the outer reaches of space. A team of astronauts manning the beat-up spaceship Dark Star are on a mission across the universe to seek out and destroy unstable planets. The journey is wrought with mishaps ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 55% from 5,859 members
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John Carpenter - watch online


  • Escape From L.A. to Watch Now (1996)
    Starring: Kurt Russell,  Stacy Keach,  Steve Buscemi
    Director: John Carpenter
    Certificate: Certificate: 15 (TBC)
    Watch now: £2.49
    Run time: 101 minutes
    The man with the patch is back. Call him Snake. Kurt Russell rejoins filmmakers John Carpenter and Debra Hill to do to the Big Orange what they did to the Big Apple in "Escape From New York" with even more futuristic thrills and slam-bang action! Into the 9.6-quaked Los Angeles of 2013 comes Snake ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 59% from 46 members
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