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1	The Thing (1982) more movies like this directed by John Carpenter featuring Kurt Russell, Wilford Brimley, T.K. Carter, David Clennon, Keith David 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 special effects, provided in abundance by a team of ... see all copies from £2.04! new only from £3.08!
2	Halloween (1978) more movies like this directed by John Carpenter featuring Donald Pleasence, Jamie Lee Curtis, Nancy Loomis, P.J. Soles, Charles Cyphers It was "The Night HE Came Home," warned the posters for John Carpenter's career-making horror smash. In Haddonfield, Ilinois, on Halloween night 1963, 6-year-old Michael Myers inexplicably slaughters his teenage sister. His psychiatrist Dr. Loomis (Donald Pleasence) can't penetrate Michael's psyche after years of institutionalization, but he knows ... see all copies from £2.01! new only from £4.31!
3	Big Trouble in Little China (1986) more movies like this directed by John Carpenter featuring Kurt Russell, Kim Cattrall, Dennis Dun, James Hong, Victor Wong Playing in a manner that can be conservatively described as larger than life, Kurt Russell plays a macho truck driver who agrees to go to the San Francisco airport and pick up his friend's (Dennis Dun) fiancee (Suzee Pai, freshly arrived from China. Suddenly, a gang of Chinatown toughs kidnap the girl right before Russell's eyes. After a wild ... see all copies from £2.73! new only from £5.06!
4	Christine (1983) more movies like this directed by John Carpenter featuring Keith Gordon, John Stockwell, Alexandra Paul, Robert Prosky, Harry Dean Stanton, Christine Belford Director John Carpenter returns to the suburban landscape he explored so chillingly in Halloween (1978) with this lean, stripped-down adaptation of the Stephen King best-seller about a haunted car with a devilishly bad attitude and the teen underdog who falls head-over-heels for her chrome-accented charms. Shortly after geeky, horn-rim-sporting ... see all copies from £2.98! new only from £5.79!
5	They Live (1988) more movies like this directed by John Carpenter featuring Roddy Piper, Keith David, Meg Foster, George "Buck" Flower, Peter Jason John Carpenter wrote and directed this science fiction thriller about a group of aliens who try to take over the world by disguising themselves as Young Republicans. Wrestler Roddy Piper stars as John Nada, a drifted who makes his way into an immense encampment for the homeless. There he stumbles upon a conspiracy concerning aliens who have ... see all copies from £2.01! new only from £7.45!
6	Escape from New York (1981) more movies like this directed by John Carpenter featuring Kurt Russell, Lee Van Cleef, Ernest Borgnine, Donald Pleasence, Isaac Hayes The year is 1997. Manhattan Island is now a heavily guarded maximum-security prison, where the scum of the earth have converged. When Air Force One crash-lands in Manhattan, the president (Donald Pleasence) is held hostage by its denizens. One-eyed mercenary Snake Plissken (Kurt Russell) is strong-armed into rescuing the chief executive. He is ... see all copies from £2.01! new only from £5.46!
7	Vampires (1998) more movies like this directed by John Carpenter featuring James Woods, Daniel Baldwin, Sheryl Lee, Thomas Ian Griffith, Tim Guinee, Maximilian Schell John Carpenter directed this horror-western, adapted from the novel Vampire$ by John Steakley, illuminating the pivotal figure of fearless vampire killer Jack Crow (James Woods), who lost his parents to the creatures. In a remote New Mexico location, Crow and his team, protected with chain-mail fang shields on their throats, blast away at a ... see all copies from £1.36! new only from £3.38!
8	Dark Star (1974) more movies like this directed by John Carpenter featuring Brian Narelle, Andreijah Pahich, Carl Duniholm, Dan O'Bannon The directorial debut of horrormeister John Carpenter comes in the way of Dark Star a parody of Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece, 2001--A Space Odyssey. The story follows four hippyish techno-nerds in their mission through deep space to destroy planets and ward off boredom and loneliness as they attempt to hold on to what little they can remember of ... see all copies from £3.38! new only from £3.42!
9	Escape from L.A. (1996) more movies like this directed by John Carpenter featuring Kurt Russell, Stacy Keach, Steve Buscemi, Peter Fonda, Cliff Robertson Escape from L.A. finds Kurt Russell once again in the role of Snake, which he played in the 1981 film, Escape from New York. Los Angeles has finally had the really big earthquake everyone was afraid of, and what remains is now an island. Because the country's ultra-righteous President-for-Life (Cliff Roberton) wants it that way, all the weirdos ... see all copies from £2.73! new only from £2.73!
10	Starman (1984) more movies like this directed by John Carpenter featuring Ted White, Jeff Bridges, Karen Allen, Charles Martin Smith, Richard Jaeckel, Robert Phalen Having crashed to Earth, an extraterrestrial space traveller must assume a human identity lest he be captured by the authorities. The alien (Jeff Bridges) chooses the likeness of the recently deceased husband of Jenny Hayden (Karen Allen). At first dumbstruck, Jenny becomes both hostile toward and frightened of her guest. He gradually wins her ... see all copies from £1.36! new only from £4.42!
11 view cover	Assault on Precinct 13 (1976) more movies like this directed by John Carpenter featuring Austin Stoker, Darwin Joston, Gilbert De la Pena, Al Nakauchi, Laurie Zimmer, Gil Rankin, Martin West, Cliff Battuello, Tony Burton Cops, secretaries, and prisoners stuck in a soon-to-be-shuttered L.A. police station fight off a horde of murderous gang members in director John Carpenter's homage to Howard Hawks. When police officer Bishop (Austin Stoker) is left in charge of Precinct 13 on the last day it's open, he isn't prepared for the onslaught of a murderous street gang ... see all copies from £2.01! new only from £4.63!
12 view cover	The Fog (1979) more movies like this directed by John Carpenter featuring Adrienne Barbeau, Hal Holbrook, Janet Leigh, Jamie Lee Curtis, John Houseman Following the phenomenal box-office success of his seminal horror classic Halloween, director John Carpenter teamed up with producer Debra Hill for a second independent horror project, this time in the mode of an old-fashioned ghost story. The end result was The Fog, a spooky romp about a dark secret that returns to haunt the Pacific fishing ... see all copies from £2.01! new only from £4.10!
13 view cover	Prince of Darkness (1987) more movies like this directed by John Carpenter featuring Donald Pleasence, Jameson Parker, Victor Wong, Lisa Blount, Dennis Dun Proving that you can never guess what you'll find when you clean out the basement, a man of the cloth discovers that ultimate evil has made a hiding place in his cellar in this tale of terror. Father Loomis (Donald Pleasance) is a priest who discovers a strange object in a church basement -- a canister filled with a swirling and volatile green ... see all copies from £2.73! new only from £7.21!
14 view cover	Elvis (1979) more movies like this directed by John Carpenter featuring Kurt Russell, Shelley Winters, Bing Russell, Season Hubley, Pat Hingle The first volley in the never-ending "Presley movie" blitzkrieg, the made-for-TV Elvis: The Movie stars Kurt Russell as the King, Season Hubley as Priscilla, Pat Hingle as Col. Parker, Shelley Winters as Elvis' mom, and Bing Russell (Kurt's real-life father) as Elvis' dad. The film recounts Presley's life from age ten to his 1969 Vegas comeback. ... see all copies from £25.95!
15 view cover	John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars (2001) more movies like this directed by John Carpenter featuring Ice Cube, Natasha Henstridge, Jason Statham, Pam Grier Writer and director John Carpenter returns to the mixture of science fiction and horror that made The Thing (1982) a success. Natasha Henstridge stars as Lt. Melanie Ballard of the Martian Police Force, a member of a law enforcement team two centuries in the future, dispatched to the remote colony of Shining Canyon. There, the most notorious ... see all copies from £2.73! new only from £4.78!
16 view cover	Village of the Damned (1995) more movies like this directed by John Carpenter featuring Christopher Reeve, Kirstie Alley, Linda Kozlowski, Michael Paré, Meredith Salenger This film is a remake of the classic 1960 science-fiction thriller, Village of the Damned, which was based on the novel The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham. Veteran horror director John Carpenter is at the helm this time, with Christopher Reeve replacing George Sanders in the starring role. Aliens put the entire village of Midwich to sleep for 24 ... see all copies from £2.73! new only from £5.06!
17 view cover	Memoirs of an Invisible Man (1992) more movies like this directed by John Carpenter featuring Chevy Chase, Daryl Hannah, Sam Neill, Michael McKean, Stephen Tobolowsky Chevy Chase stars, though not always visibly, as Nick Halloway, a low-level businessman with an acerbic approach to life and work, whose humdrum existence utterly bores him. Nick gets an unexpected jolt of excitement when, nursing a hangover, he's the only one not to evacuate an office building that becomes a disaster area after a mishap involving ... see all copies from £2.73! new only from £8.06!
18 view cover	Masters of Horror: Cigarette Burns (2005) more movies like this directed by John Carpenter featuring Norman Reedus, Udo Kier, Gary Hetherington Directed by horror expert John Carpenter, Masters of Horror: Cigarette Burns concerns a man who makes his living hunting down films that are often thought lost. He sets off to find a legendary film titled "Le Fin Absolute du Monde," a movie that supposedly turned the one audience who saw it into a murderous mob. The man begins to fear for his life ... see all copies from £2.73! new only from £4.65!
19 view cover	Masters of Horror: Pro-Life (2006) more movies like this directed by John Carpenter featuring Caitlin Wachs, Ron Perlman, Mark Feurerstein, Emmanuelle Vaugier A pregnant girl trapped in a woman's health clinic makes a disturbing discovery about the child growing inside of her while attempting to fight off her father and three heavily armed brothers in director John Carpenter's second Masters of Horror episode. A young couple is driving down a darkened country road when frightened Angelique (Caitlin ... see all copies from £5.39! new only from £7.45!
20 view cover	Body Bags (1993) more movies like this directed by John Carpenter, Tobe Hooper featuring David Warner, Deborah Harry, John Carpenter, Mark Hamill, Roger Corman, Sam Raimi, Stacy Keach, Tobe Hooper, Wes Craven Horror virtuoso John Carpenter hosts this goofy horror anthology, originally produced for Showtime as a gory stepchild of HBO's Tales from the Crypt series. Playing an emaciated, eye-rolling "coroner," John introduces the audience to a triptych of creepy vignettes in the EC horror-comics mode while paddling about in the guts of assorted cadavers ... see all copies from £2.73! new only from £4.34!
21 view cover	In the Mouth of Madness (1994) more movies like this directed by John Carpenter featuring Sam Neill, Julie Carmen, Jürgen Prochnow, Charlton Heston, David Warner Hired to help locate a missing author, an insurance investigator discovers to his terror that the nightmarish events depicted in the writer's best-selling horror novels are coming true. Wishing to be both a horror film and a parody of the genre, John Carpenter's In the Mouth of Madness combines supernatural thrills with winking references. For ... see all copies from £2.73! new only from £7.20!
22 view cover	Someone's Watching Me! (1978) more movies like this directed by John Carpenter Hot on the heels of his theatrical-feature megahit Halloween, writer-producer John Carpenter concocted this nailbiting made-for-TV suspenser. Lauren Hutton stars as stylish career girl Leigh Michaels, who lives in an ultra-modern, glassed-in high rise apartment. Leigh's relatively tranquil existence is shattered when she begins receiving ... see all copies from £7.20! new only from £7.20!

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