John Carpenter — Director (25)
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Pro-Life (2006) IMDb TMDB
Pro-Life
director: John Carpenter actor: Ron Perlman / Caitlin Wachs …
other title: Pro-Life - Des Teufels Brut / Piegée à l'intérieur …
Angelique, a traumatized fifteen year old, is taken to an abortion clinic to end her pregnancy. However, her deeply religious father and three brothers are out to make sure the baby lives.
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Someone's Watching Me! (1978) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Someone's Watching Me!
director: John Carpenter actor: Lauren Hutton / David Birney …
other title: Pericolo in agguato / Alguém anda a espiar-me …
A young woman moves to a high-rise apartment building and soon begins to be tormented by an unknown stalker who seems to know her every move.
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Ghosts of Mars (2001)
Ghosts of Mars
director: John Carpenter actor: 娜塔莎·亨斯屈奇 / 艾斯·库珀 …
other title: 火星幽灵 / 火星异魔 …
In 2176, a Martian police unit is sent to pick up a highly dangerous criminal at a remote mining post. Upon arrival, the cops find the post deserted and something far more dangerous than any criminal — the original inhabitants of Mars, hellbent on getting their planet back.
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Cigarette Burns (2005) IMDb TMDB Douban NeoDB
Cigarette Burns
director: John Carpenter actor: Norman Reedus / Udo Kier …
other title: La Fin absolue du monde / El fin del mundo en 35mm …
With a torrid past that haunts him, a movie theatre owner is hired to search for the only existing print of a film so notorious that its single screening caused the viewers to become homicidally insane.
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The Ward (2010)
The Ward
director: John Carpenter actor: Amber Heard / Mamie Gummer …
other title: The Ward - Il reparto / O Hospício …
Kristen, a troubled young woman, is captured by the police after burning down a farmhouse and is locked in the North Bend Psychiatric Hospital. Soon, she begins to suspect that the place has a dark secret at its core and she's determined to find out what it is.
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Vampires (1998) IMDb TMDB
Vampires
director: John Carpenter actor: James Woods / Daniel Baldwin …
other title: Vampiros de John Carpenter / John Carpenters Vampire
The church enlists a team of vampire-hunters to hunt down and destroy a group of vampires searching for an ancient relic that will allow them to exist in sunlight.
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Starman (1984)
Starman
★ 6.7 (6 ratings) director: John Carpenter actor: Jeff Bridges / Karen Allen …
other title: Starman - O Homem das Estrelas
When an alien takes the form of a young widow's husband and asks her to drive him from Wisconsin to Arizona, the government tries to stop them.
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Village of the Damned (1995)
Village of the Damned
director: John Carpenter actor: Christopher Reeve / Kirstie Alley …
other title: Villaggio dei dannati / Den fortabte by …
An American village is visited by some unknown life form which leaves the women of the village pregnant. Nine months later, the babies are born, and they all look normal, but it doesn't take the "parents" long to realize that the kids are not human or humane.
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The Fog (1980)
The Fog
★ 6.4 (9 ratings) director: John Carpenter actor: Adrienne Barbeau / Tom Atkins …
other title: Fog / Tågen …
Strange things begin to occur as a tiny California coastal town prepares to commemorate its centenary. Inanimate objects spring eerily to life; Rev. Malone stumbles upon a dark secret about the town's founding; radio announcer Stevie witnesses a mystical fire; and hitchhiker Elizabeth discovers the mutilated corpse of a fisherman. Then a mysterious iridescent fog descends upon the village, and more people start to die.
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Masters of Horror Season 1 (2005) TMDB Douban
Masters of Horror Season 1 part of TV Series: Masters of Horror
director: 唐·柯斯卡莱利 / 斯图尔特·戈登 … actor: 蜷川美穗 / 安东尼·哈里森 …
"Masters of Horror" ist eine von Mick Garris angestoßene TV-Anthologie von Horrorfilmen. Die einzelnen, alle um die 60 Minuten langen Episoden sind von namhaften Regisseuren gedreht. Die Produktionsrahmen sind für alle etwa dieselben, weswegen die Episoden visuell und vom stilistisch vergleichbar sind. Inhaltlich sind sie sehr unterschiedlich. Die Spezialeffekte sind in Einzelfällen recht drastisch und schockierend in Szene gesetzt..
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They Live (1988)
They Live
★ 7.7 (22 ratings) director: John Carpenter actor: Roddy Piper / Keith David …
other title: Essi vivono / Eles Vivem …
A lone drifter stumbles upon a harrowing discovery -- a unique pair of sunglasses that reveals that aliens are systematically gaining control of the Earth by masquerading as humans and lulling the public into submission.
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Body Bags (1993)
Body Bags
director: John Carpenter / Tobe Hooper actor: John Carpenter / Tom Arnold …
other title: Body bags - Corpi estranei / Petits cauchemars avant la nuit …
A horror anthology containing three stories: a female college student working a graveyard shift is terrorized by a serial killer; a hair transplant goes horribly wrong; and a baseball player loses an eye and gets a new one from a recently executed murderer.
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Dark Star (1974)
Dark Star
★ 7.4 (7 ratings) director: John Carpenter actor: Brian Narelle / Cal Kuniholm …
other title: Estrela Negra / Dark Star - Finsterer Stern …
A group of scientists are sent on a mission to destroy unstable planets. Twenty years into their mission, they have to battle their alien mascot as well as a "sensitive" and intelligent bombing device that starts to question the meaning of its existence.
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Prince of Darkness (1987)
Prince of Darkness
★ 7.2 (8 ratings) director: John Carpenter actor: Donald Pleasence / Lisa Blount …
other title: Il signore del male / I en kælder sort som kul …
A group of graduate students and scientists uncover an ancient canister in an abandoned church, but when they open it, they inadvertently unleash a strange liquid and an evil force on all of humanity.