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John Carpenter - 8 Titles Found
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Halloween
(1978) [R]
The year is 1963, the night; Halloween. Police are called to 43 Lampkin Ln. only to discover that a 17 year Judith Myers had been stabbed to death, by her 6 year-old brother... After being institutionalized for 15 years, Myers breaks out just days before Halloween. No one knows, nor would wish to... More
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The Thing
(1982) [M]
John Carpenter's The Thing is both a remake of Howard Hawks' 1951 film of the same name and a re-adaptation of the John W. Campbell Jr. story "Who Goes There?" on which it was based. Carpenter's film is more faithful to Campbell's story than Hawks' version and also substantially more reliant on... More
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Escape From New York
(1981) [M]
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... More
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Dark Star (Director's Cut)
(1974) [G]
John Carpenter's low-budget debut feature is a hilarious romp set in the deepest reaches of outer space. The haggard crew of the dilapidated Dark Star spaceship--Doolittle (Brian Narelle), Boiler (Cal Kuniholm), Pinback (Dan O'Bannon), and Talby (Dre Pahich)--is on an extended mission to seek out... More
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The Fog (1980)
(1980) [M]
The centenary of the small town of Antonio Bay, California has finally arrived. However, the events of 100 years ago are about to come back to haunt the town, because a conspiracy of the town's founders resulted in the deaths of several lepers in a shipwreck. The conspirators had planned to lure... More
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In The Mouth Of Madness
(1995) [M]
With the disappearance of hack horror writer Sutter Cane, all Hell is breaking loose...literally! Author Cane, it seems, has a knack for description that really brings his evil creepy-crawlies to life. Insurance investigator John Trent is sent to investigate Cane's mysterious vanishing act and... More
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Assault On Precinct 13 (1976)
(1976) [R]
From widely acclaimed director John Carpenter comes the classic Assault On Precinct 13; a taut, well-made, excellently acted, police suspense thriller. Isolated, cut off. Inside a virtually abandoned Police Station, a handful of cops and a mob of cutthroat convicts on their way to Death Row find... More
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Christine
(1983) [M]
She was born in Detroit on an assembly line...but she is no ordinary automobile. She is Christine - a red and white 1958 Plymouth Fury whose standard equipment includes an evil, indestructible presence that will destroy anyone in her way. More
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