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review by from Berkshire
The cars the star... 27 December 2004
review by jezfernandez from Oxford, England
A Genuine Classic 3 March 2004
review by from coatbridge
classic!!!!!! 8 February 2005
John Carpenter - filmography
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The Ward - Blu-ray
(2010)
Starring: Amber Heard, Jared Harris, Lyndsy Fonseca
Director: John Carpenter
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A young girl named Kristen (Amber Heard) awakens in a psychiatric hospital after setting a farmhouse ablaze, and finds herself stalked by a malevolent ghost in this psychological shocker from celebrated horror director John Carpenter (Halloween). Badly battered and seemingly stricken with amnesia, ..read more »
 
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from 1,811 member
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Going to Pieces - The Rise and Fall of t...
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Malek Akkad, John Carpenter, Lilyan Chauvin
Director: Jeff McQueen
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Gorehounds will love GOING TO PIECES, a documentary filled with the best scenes in slasher film history. From essential classics like PSYCHO to newer films like CABIN FEVER, this movie features interviews with horror's biggest names like Wes Craven and Rob Zombie. With clips featuring frightening ..read more »
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from 1,897 member
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John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Ice Cube, Natasha Henstridge, Jason Statham
Director: John Carpenter
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From director John Carpenter comes a sci-fi thriller full of explosive action and bone-chilling suspense that recalls such earlier Carpenter classics as Assault On Precinct 13 and The Thing. Natasha Henstridge is Melanie Ballard, a headstrong police lieutenant on Mars in the year 2025. Humans have ..read more »
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from 4,369 members
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John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars - Blu-ray
(2001)
Starring: Ice Cube, Natasha Henstridge, Jason Statham
Director: John Carpenter
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From director John Carpenter comes a sci-fi thriller full of explosive action and bone-chilling suspense that recalls such earlier Carpenter classics as Assault On Precinct 13 and The Thing. Natasha Henstridge is Melanie Ballard, a headstrong police lieutenant on Mars in the year 2025. Humans have ..read more »
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from 199 members
Currently unavailable
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John Carpenter's Vampires
on DVD
(1998)
Starring: Maximilian Schell, Tim Guinee, Thomas Rosales
Director: John Carpenter
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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 »
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from 4,558 members
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Escape From L.A.
on DVD
(1996)
Starring: Peter Jason, Le, Kurt Russell
Director: John Carpenter
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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 »
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from 5,635 members
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Escape From L.A. - Blu-ray
(1996)
Starring: Peter Jason, Le, Kurt Russell
Director: John Carpenter
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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 »
61%
from 561 members
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Village Of The Damned
on DVD
(1995)
Starring: Christopher Reeve, Linda Kozlowski, Kirstie Alley
Director: John Carpenter
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From the master of suspense, John Carpenter, comes a chilling new version of the sci-fi classic. Something is terribly wrong in the tiny village of Midwich. After an unseen force invades a quiet coastal town, 10 women mysteriously find themselves pregnant. Local physician Dr. Alan Chaffee (Reeve) ..read more »
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from 2,775 members
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Memoirs Of An Invisible Man
(1992)
Starring: Chevy Chase, Daryl Hannah, Sam Neill
Director: John Carpenter
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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 »
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from 1,108 member
Not currently released
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They Live
on DVD
(1988)
Starring: Roddy Piper, Keith David, Meg Foster
Director: John Carpenter
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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 »
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from 5,325 members
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They Live - Blu-ray
(1988)
Starring: Roddy Piper, Keith David, Meg Foster
Director: John Carpenter
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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 »
69%
from 276 members
Currently unavailable
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Prince Of Darkness
(1987)
Starring: Donald Pleasence, Lisa Blount, Victor Wong
Director: John Carpenter
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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 »
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from 1,739 member
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Big Trouble In Little China
on DVD
(1986)
Starring: Kurt Russell, Kim Cattrall, Dennis Dun
Director: John Carpenter
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A cult favorite (and one of director John Carpenter's personal favourites), BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA is a fantasy-action film that is brilliantly imaginative, funny, and absorbing. Kurt Russell plays hard-boiled truck driver Jack Burton, who gets caught in a bizarre conflict within, and ..read more »
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from 12,382 members
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Starman
(1984)
Starring: Karen Allen, Charles Martin Smith, Richard Jaeckel
Director: John Carpenter
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Having crashed to Earth, an extraterrestrial space traveller must assume a human identity lest he be captured by the authorities. The alien (Jeff Bridges) chooses the likeness of the recently deceased husband of Jenny Hayden (Karen Allen). At first dumbstruck, Jenny becomes both hostile toward and ..read more »
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from 3,025 members
Not currently released
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Christine
on DVD
(1983)
Starring: Keith Gordon, John Stockwell, Harry Dean Stanton
Director: John Carpenter
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Based on Stephen King's novel. The plot revolves around a vehicle possessed by evil. A dark and violent film about the dangers of obsession. When a unpopular young man, Arnie buys a vintage car to restore, it changes his life completely. The more he works on the car, which he decides to call ..read more »
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from 5,727 members
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The Thing
on DVD
(1982)
Starring: Kurt Russell, T.K. Carter, Richard Dysart
Director: John Carpenter
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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 »
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from 22,944 members
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The Thing - HD
(1982)
Starring: Kurt Russell, T.K. Carter, Richard Dysart
Director: John Carpenter
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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 »
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from 877 members
Not currently released
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The Thing - Blu-ray
(1982)
Starring: Kurt Russell, T.K. Carter, Richard Dysart
Director: John Carpenter
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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 »
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from 4,240 members
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Escape From New York
on DVD
(1981)
Starring: Isaac Hayes, Adrienne Barbeau, Harry Dean Stanton
Director: John Carpenter
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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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from 9,044 members
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The Fog
on DVD
(1979)
Starring: John Houseman, Janet Leigh, Hal Holbrook
Director: John Carpenter
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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 »
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from 9,597 members
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The Fog - Blu-ray
(1979)
Starring: John Houseman, Janet Leigh, Hal Holbrook
Director: John Carpenter
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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 »
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from 799 members
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The Fog - HD
(1979)
Starring: John Houseman, Janet Leigh, Hal Holbrook
Director: John Carpenter
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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 »
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from 325 members
Not currently released
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Halloween
on DVD
(1978)
Starring: P.J. Soles, Nancy Loomis, Donald Pleasence
Director: John Carpenter
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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 »
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from 13,148 members
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Halloween - Blu-ray
(1978)
Starring: Donald Pleasence, Jamie Lee Curtis, P.J. Soles
Director: John Carpenter
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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 »
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from 1,216 member
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Assault on Precinct 13
(1976)
Starring: Austin Stoker, Darwin Joston, Laurie Zimmer
Director: John Carpenter
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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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from 8,472 members
Not currently released
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Dark Star
on DVD
(1974)
Starring: Brian Narelle, Dan O'Bannon, Dre Pahich
Director: John Carpenter
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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 »
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from 6,969 members
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Dark Star - Blu-ray
(1974)
Starring: Brian Narelle, Dan O'Bannon, Dre Pahich
Director: John Carpenter
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John Carpenter’s pulp science fiction classic - this brilliantly clever and funny parody of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, follows a warped intergalactic mission to blow up unstable planets. Four bored astronauts fill in time between missions catching up on their tans with the help of a ..read more »
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from 494 members
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