John Carpenter
Director, Actor
Films to Rent on DVD
- Dark Star (1974)
- Dir. John Carpenter
Feat. Brian Narelle, Dre Pahich, Carl Kuniholm…
- Directing debut of Carpenter contains that renegade spirit that is so often lost further down career paths. With ALIEN scribe Dan O'Bannon, he forges…
- Assault On Precinct 13 (1976)
- Dir. John Carpenter
Feat. Austin Stoker, Darwin Joston
- A deserted urban jail comes under siege by a ruthless gang in this contemporary reworking of RIO BRAVO. The pin–drop atmosphere is intensified…
- Halloween (1978)
- Dir. John Carpenter
Feat. Jamie Lee Curtis
- Landmark horror film is distinguished by direction that gives a constant sense of impending doom, yet provides constant surprises – unlike the…
- Elvis (1979)
- Dir. John Carpenter
Feat. Kurt Russell, Shelley Winters, Bing Russell…
- Made just two years after Elvis's death, the king of rock 'n' roll's life is traced from dirt poor beginnings to becoming the most loved entertainer…
- Fog, The (1980)
- Dir. John Carpenter
Feat. Adrienne Barbeau, Hal Holbrook, Janet Leigh…
- A curse, put on a Californian coastal town by shipwrecked sailors, is fulfilled when bank of fog, concealing vengeful ghouls, rolls in from the sea.…
- Escape from New York (1981)
- Dir. John Carpenter
Feat. Kurt Russell, Lee Van Cleef, Ernest Borgnine…
- 1997 New York is a huge maximum–security prison where the President's plane just happens to crash! Futuristic actioner notable for its sardonic…
- Thing, The (1982)
- Dir. John Carpenter
Feat. Kurt Russell, Wilford Brimley, Richard Dysart…
- Kurt Russell headlines this remake of the 1951 film about an Antarctic outpost terrorized by an alien organism. Dir. John Carpenter cranks up the…
- Christine (1983)
- Dir. John Carpenter
Feat. Keith Gordon, John Stockwell, Alexandra Paul
- A persecuted teen finds unlikely kinship in a girl with a diff – a demonically–charged 1958 Plymouth that indulges in dispatching…
- Starman (1984)
- Dir. John Carpenter
Feat. Jeff Bridges, Karen Allen, Charles Martin Smith…
- Jeff Bridges plays an alien trying to recover his spaceship on Earth with the help of young widow Karen Allen. Entertaining fantasy–drama.
- Big Trouble in Little China (1986)
- Dir. John Carpenter
Feat. Kurt Russell
- High–tech, tongue–in–cheek adventure in which Kurt Russell kicks butt in Chinatown.