A FALL FROM GRACE, THE JOHN CARPENTER COLLECTION! (21 titles)
JOHN CARPENTER USED TO BE THE MASTER OF TERROR, BUT WHERE DID IT ALL GO SO WRONG?
82% from 10 members
Dark Star
Carpenter's spoof on 2001, is a real space oddety!
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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 »
55%
from 5,894 members
Assault On Precinct 13
A tiny budget, with massive impact. A real masterclass of sustained suspense
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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 »
61%
from 7,736 members
Halloween
The ultimate stalk and slash film. Outstanding electrical music score and a faceless killer, put Carpenter on the map!
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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 »
69%
from 11,595 members
Halloween 2
"YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT DEATH IS"
Carpenter is not credited as directing this, but the little known fact is he did direct some parts of it, while he was directing new scenes for the originals U.S Tv premere. Also Carpenter did write it and produced it. The film is a decent continuation of the night he came home. The film does lack some of the suspense from the original, and is far more violent, to help it fall in line with the Friday 13th series. But Michael has alwas been a more cunning and superior psycho than Jason could ever be.
A solid sequel!
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Halloween 2
on DVD
(1981)
Starring: Jamie Lee Curtis, Donald Pleasence, Lance Guest
Director: Rick Rosenthal
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Picking up right where the last film ended, this sequel begins as Dr. Loomis (Donald Pleasence) pumps evil Mike Myers full of lead, then watches helplessly as the maniac killer stands up again and runs away. Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis), the teenager last terrorized by Myers, is taken to a ..read more »
60%
from 3,678 members
The Fog
old school horror. Carpenter cranks up the suspense when the fog rolls in. Far better than the terrible remake
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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 »
63%
from 8,720 members
Escape From New York
Kurt Russell as Snake Plissken, in a great comic book future shock. The ultimate anti-hero!
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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 »
68%
from 7,649 members
The Thing
Man is the warmest place to hide! The crowning glory for Carpenter. Paranoid terror at it's best!
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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 »
72%
from 19,963 members
Christine
She's a killer ride! Carpenter brings the Steven king novel to the screen, in this nasty revenge movie.
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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 »
63%
from 4,933 members
Starman
A change of tone for Carpenter in this heart warming Close encounter.
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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 »
67%
from 2,477 members
Big Trouble In Little China
A crazy kung-fu Chinese ghost story.
Kurt Russel is brilliant
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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 10,611 members
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