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Director John Carpenter, who had just done horror so brilliantly with Assault on Precinct 13 (1976) and Halloween (1978), comes up with this feeble, daft and unconvincing 1980 spook chiller. In Carpenter’s screenplay, written with Debra Hill, […]
Director John Carpenter’s 1986 cult classic Big Trouble in Little China stars Kurt Russell in one of his iconic roles as Jack Burton, a trucker who gets sucked into a ‘centuries-old mystical battle’ in San Francisco’s […]
Director Brian De Palma’s 1978 thriller stars Kirk Douglas as an American government ex-CIA agent Peter Sandza, who learns his son Robin (Andrew Stevens) has been kidnapped by a wily and unscrupulous former co-worker Ben Childress (John […]
Director John Carpenter delivers a stupendous, electrifying 1984 adult sci-fi fairy tale that’s tense, touching and thrilling throughout. Bruce A Evans, Raynold Gideon and Dean Reisner’s screenplay follows the story of the titular alien Starman, […]
Director/ co-writer John Carpenter’s tough and exciting futuristic action thriller, made in 1981 but set in 1997, sees the US President forced to land in Manhattan, now a prison ghetto full of baddies who take him […]
Director John Carpenter and star Kurt Russell reunite in 1996 for a fairly feeble, low-imagination, low-adrenaline sequel to 1981’s Escape from New York that plays more like a re-make. They shouldn’t have proceeded without a […]
Co-writer/director John Carpenter’s 1998 black-comedy action chiller features a team of Vatican-employed vampire hunters, led by Jack Crow (James Woods), chasing Jan Valek the Vampire (Thomas Ian Griffith) and his band of bloodsuckers in New […]