 | The Thing (Collector's Edition)
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $4.07 Although this is a remake of the original John took the basic storyline and redid with only the basic premise. Those that saw this in the theater when it was first released know how intense that experience was. Kurt Russell and the rest the cast did an extrodinary job of making us believe.
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 | Halloween
Buy new: $11.49 / Used from: $2.78 When I first saw Halloween I was shaking. This movie got under your skin and stayed there awhile. I still think this one is a classic well worth your time. What made this so great wasn't just the fear of slashing by a giant butcher knife, it was you never knew when Michael would appear or strike.
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 | Escape from New York
Buy new: $14.98 / Used from: $1.95 I have always been a fan of Kurt Russell. This was an exceptional film that I think showed he wasn't just a Disney kid but a tough man as well. Kurt has appeared in several Carpenter movies.
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 | Big Trouble in Little China (Single Disc Edition)
Buy new: $9.49 / Used from: $1.48 This was a nice mix of comedy and horror. Once again Russell heads up the cast in this Chinatown round up.
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 | Memoirs of an Invisible Man
Buy new: $5.79 / Used from: $5.19 Chevy Chase and Darryl Hannah are great in this Carpenter comedy/action movie.
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 | Ghosts of Mars (Special Edition)
Buy new: $9.95 / Used from: $0.98 The dead arise on mars and they make road warriors look like girl scouts.
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 | Assault on Precinct 13 (Special Edition)
Buy used from: $1.23 Early work of John's with such a great story and good job of acting it developed a cult following. The remake was decent but it did not have the magic scariness of the original.
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 | Starman (Full Screen Edition)
Buy new: $8.49 / Used from: $1.99 An alien from space lands and starts with the clone body of a dead man but intelligence of a great technological race. Learning for the first time how humans live he is like a child to our ways.
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 | Dark Star
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $4.49 John's first distributed work as far as I know. To this day I love it. Sure the monster is funny, but did you ever think that may have been intentional? At any rate I love the story of a crew sent in space to destroy twenty potentially dangerous planets. You can imagine what happens when they get space happy.
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 | The Fog (Special Edition)
Buy new: $11.99 / Used from: $1.91 Jamie Lee Curtis and Adrienne Barbeau do a great job in this horror about a shrouding fog that hides bloodthirsty ghosts.
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 | Christine (Special Edition)
Buy new: $12.99 / Used from: $4.18 Excellent story about a car with a life of it's own.
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 | Village of the Damned
Buy used from: $3.21 Based on the original this remake gives more depth of character and fear.
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 | Vampires
Buy new: $12.49 / Used from: $1.59 Woods and the rest the cast are good in this Vampire hunt.
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 | They Live
Buy new: $12.49 / Used from: $8.50 Roddy Piper does a great job going from wrestling to firing one liners when he discovers not everyone is who they appear to be.
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 | In the Mouth of Madness
Buy new: $5.79 / Used from: $4.77 Sam Neill does a fine job in this psychological thriller.
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 | Prince Of Darkness
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $5.18 Donald Pleasance in another one of John Carpenter's movies. This time as a priest against the Dark Lord.
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 | Someone's Watching Me
Buy used from: $6.79 It's good to know someone is watching over you if it is a loved one, but a stranger is a bit creepy. And with John directing it you know it's going to get real creepy.
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 | Body Bags
Buy used from: $34.27 Three short stories, two of which are John's. He even apprears as a coroner to narrate them.
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 | Headhunter
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $0.93 Beware of axe baring women.
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