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John Carpenter's Vampires
1998
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. The team is successful, and .. Read more
| Starring | James Woods, Daniel Baldwin, Sheryl Lee, Thomas Ian Griffith |
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| Director | John Carpenter |
| Genres | Horror |
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John Carpenter's Vampires
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. The team is successful, and becomes lazy in its success, eventually falling victim to an elaborate ambush set up by a powerful master vampire. Crow and two others of his team are the only survivors, and are determined to get revenge for the massacre. Carpenter takes the genre to new heights with powerful action scenes, nifty vampire-killing weapons, and great special effects. Woods is wonderfully over the top as the head vampire hunter who has no love for the Vatican and a mysterious past that is never far behind him. VAMPIRES is based on the book by John Steakley, adapted for the screen by Don Jakoby. The score is creepy and powerful, a typical characteristic for a Carpenter film.
| Starring | James Woods, Daniel Baldwin, Sheryl Lee, Thomas Ian Griffith, Maximilian Schell, Tim Guinee, Thomas Rosales, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Marjean Holden, Mark Boone, Frank Darabont |
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| Director | John Carpenter |
| Studio | UCA |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 43 mins |
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| Genres | Horror |
| Language | English |
| Dubbed | Spanish |
| Subtitles | Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, Icelandic, Norwegian, Spanish, Swedish |
| Released | DVD: 10 Apr 2000 Production year: 1998 |
| Format | DVD |
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Critics' reviews (4)
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"...[Carpenter] has an eye for widescreen imagery, a knack for getting the plot rolling swiftly....And an ear for apt music..."
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This throwback vampire Western wastes the talent of James Woods, and revels in mean-spirited gore, gratuitous female... read more on Time Out
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11 out of 11 people found this review helpful
[Highly rated reviewer]
Unsurprising
You should know what this film is going to be like because the title is prefixed with 'John Carpenter's'.
Cheap-looking and made-for-tvish. John Carpenter is no longer the horror master who brought us Halloween and The Thing. That guy died around the time he did that god-awful sequel to Escape From New York. I think he's done a 'Woody Allen', all his directing ability dwindling with age.
Anyway, this film is a 1 star movie; I have given it an extra one because there is a fabulous scene about 20 minutes in, where someone gets split vertically in half, a la 'Ichi The Killer'. Worth hiring just for this. -
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6 out of 7 people found this review helpful
Yawn
Bring back Dr Van Helsing - at least you could use your imagination, instead of all the blood and gore the plot was weak the story line predictable and were they really acting! Not a 5* film for me.
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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. ...
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