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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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50%
from 3,358 members
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John Carpenter's Vampires
on DVD
(1998)
Starring: James Woods, Daniel Baldwin, Sheryl Lee
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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58%
from 3,632 members
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Escape From L.A. - BLU-RAY Version
(1996)
Starring: Kurt Russell, Stacy Keach, Steve Buscemi
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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53%
from 68 members
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Escape From L.A.
on DVD
(1996)
Starring: Kurt Russell, Stacy Keach, Steve Buscemi
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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57%
from 4,581 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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Something is terribly wrong in the tiny village of Midwich. After an unseen force invades a quiet coastal town, ten women mysteriously find themselves pregnant. Local physician Dr. Alan Chaffee and government scientist Dr. Susan Verner join forces when the women simultaneously give birth... and the ..read more »
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53%
from 2,439 members
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Memoirs Of An Invisible Man
on DVD
(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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59%
from 931 members
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They Live - BLU-RAY Version
(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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66%
from 155 members
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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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66%
from 3,978 members
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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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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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70%
from 10,564 members
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Starman
on DVD
(1984)
Starring: Jeff Bridges, Karen Allen, Charles Martin Smith
Director: John Carpenter
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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 »
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67%
from 2,465 members
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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 4,923 members
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Thing, The - BLU-RAY Version
(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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79%
from 1,864 member
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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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72%
from 19,897 members
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Thing, The - HD DVD Version
(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 755 members
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Escape From New York
on DVD
(1981)
Starring: Isaac Hayes, Harry Dean Stanton, Donald Pleasence
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 7,621 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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Fog, The - HD DVD Version
(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 288 members
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Fog, The - BLU-RAY Version
(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 415 members
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Halloween - BLU-RAY Version
(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 590 members
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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 11,570 members
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Assault On Precinct 13
on DVD
(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 7,719 members
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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 5,872 members
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Red, White And Blue
on DVD
Starring: Darren Lynn Bousman, John Carpenter, Larry Cohen
Director: Andrew Monument
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Heralded by gift of France, The Statue of Liberty, a birds-eye view of some of the U.S of A's most historical and important monuments and it's most beautiful, natural landscape. Includes celebratory songs and images of dazzling America topped off with a spectacular fireworks display.
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Escape From L.A.
to Watch Now
(1996)
Starring: Kurt Russell, Stacy Keach, Steve Buscemi
Director: John Carpenter
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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 »
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John Carpenter facts
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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...
A Genuine Classic 3 March 2004
