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John Carpenter Collection, The

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Home Ent. Release Date:  05 Oct 2008
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HALLOWEEN THE THING ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13 THEY LIVE ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK PRINCE OF DARKNESS Very few filmmakers could hope to achieve the immense cult status obtained by legendary director John Carpenter and his highly influential, unmistakable movies. Having written, directed, edited and scored the music for most of his films he remains a true auteur and a groundbreaking innovator of independent cinema. With his vivid imagination, sly streaks of dark humour and his tense, terrifying and sometimes disturbing scenarios he has become renowned as a master of horror and is responsible for creating some of modern cinemas most original and iconic characters, from Halloween’s relentlessly evil Michael Myers and Escape from New York’s unstoppable anti-hero Snake Plisskin to The Fog’s unforgettable army of zombie pirates. HALLOWEEN (1978) It’s Halloween night, 1963, and a 17-year-old girl, Judith Myers, is brutally stabbed to death by her younger brother, Michael. Fifteen years to the day and Michael has escaped from a mental institution and is heading back home to begin his murderous rampage. Often replicated but never bettered, Halloween is one of the most successful and controversial independent films of all time, hailed as the original slasher movie. Incredibly dark and disturbing it remains as frightening today as it did on its original release. Starring Jamie Lee Curtis and Donald Pleasance. THE THING (1982) One of John Carpenters most intense and thrilling horror, science fiction thrillers, The Thing takes place within the claustrophobic confinement of an Antarctic research station. After a Norwegian helicopter mysteriously crashes near his US camp, helicopter pilot JR MacReady (Kurt Russell) travels to the Norwegian base to find out what has happened. Here he finds that a shape shifting alien being, able to replicate any living creature, has infiltrated its crew resulting in hideous deaths and a relentless atmosphere of psychotic paranoia… MacReady must find whose form the alien has taken and try and save the rest of the base’s inhabitants before it’s too late. THE FOG (1980) Antonio Bay, California has turned a hundred years old and is getting ready to celebrate its centennial year. But as the residents of the small, quaint harbour town begin to prepare for the festivities a mysterious cloud of fog appears upon the shore and begins to make its way across Antonio Bay leaving a trail of horrifying slaughter which hints to the blood soaked history of the town. Starring Adrienne Barbeau, Jamie Lee Curtis and Janet Leigh. ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13 (1976) Assault on Precinct 13 stands as one of the ultimate genre-defying moments in modern cinema. When a vicious gang murder a young girl in cold blood, her vengeful father incites full blown conflict by shooting one of her killers, before fleeing to the soon-to-be-closed Precinct 13 – where only one officer, two secretaries and a handful of criminals remain. Faced by an enemy that is cold, brutal and terrifyingly merciless, Lt. Bishop (Austin Stoker) and the others are isolated as night falls, and then the attack begins…. ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK (1981) The year is 1997 and in a police state future the island of Manhattan has been turned into a maximum-security prison. The rules are simple: once you’re in, you don’t come out. But when the United States president (Donald Pleasance) crash lands an escape pod into the centre of the city after fleeing a hijacked plane, a ruthless prison warden (Lee Van Cleef) bribes ex-soldier and criminal Snake Plisskin (Kurt Russell) into entering the hazardous Manhattan and rescuing the distraught president from the twisted world of New York and from the demented clutches of its new ruler The Duke (Isaac Hayes). ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK (1981) The year is 1997 and in a police state future the island of Manhattan has been turned into a maximum-security prison. The rules are simple: once you’re in, you don’t come out. But when the United States president (Donald Pleasance) crash lands an escape pod into the centre of the city after fleeing a hijacked plane, a ruthless prison warden (Lee Van Cleef) bribes ex-soldier and criminal Snake Plisskin (Kurt Russell) into entering the hazardous Manhattan and rescuing the distraught president from the twisted world of New York and from the demented clutches of its new ruler The Duke (Isaac Hayes).

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  • John Carpenter

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