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Posted: September 5th, 2008.
Very few filmmakers could hope to achieve the immense cult status obtained by legendary director John Carpenter and hishighly influential, unmistakable movies. Having written, directed, edited and scored the music for most of his films heremains a true auteur and a groundbreaking innovator of independent cinema. With his vivid imagination, sly streaks of darkhumour and his tense, terrifying and sometimes disturbing scenarios he has become renowned as a master of horror and isresponsible for creating some of modern cinemas most original and iconic characters, from Halloweens relentlessly evil MichaelMyers and Escape from New Yorks unstoppable anti-hero Snake Plisskin to The Fogs unforgettable army of zombie pirates.
The Boxset features the following films: Halloween, The Thing, The Fog, Assault on Precinct 13, They Live,Escape from New York and Prince of Darkness.
The extras are as follows:
- Halloween: 5.1 / trailers / Halloween Unmasked 2000 / TV spots / bios
- The Thing: John Carpenters The Thing: Terror Takes Shape Making of Documentary / Feature Commentary with John Carpenter & Kurt Russell / Production Background Archive / Cast Production Photos / Production Art & Storyboards / Location Design / Production Archives / Outtakes / Production Notes / Post Production / Theatrical Trailer / Cast & Filmmakers Notes: Kurt Russell, John Carpenter
- The Fog: Tales From The Mist (30 min documentary) / teaser trailer / trailer / 5.1
- Assault on Precinct 13: Video Q&A with John Carpenter and star Austin Stoker at the American Cinematheque 2002 (23 mins) / Directors Commentary / Isolated Music Score / Behind the Scenes Photo Gallery (17 mins) / 2 Radio Spots / Trailer
- They Live: Making of featurette / John Carpenter & Roddy Piper Commentary / John Carpenter Profile / Roddy Piper profile / Meg Foster profile / trailer
- Escape From New York: Return to Escape from New York (23 mins) / New and exclusive John Carpenter interview (31 mins) / 3 x original trailers / Snakes Crime (deleted original intro) / 5.1 / Commentary with John Carpenter and Kurt Russell
- Prince of Darkness: Trailer
The DVD is released on October 6th 2008, it contains all 7 films and retails for £54.99,but is currently on Amazon at the link above for £41.24.
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Reviewer of movies, videogames and music since 1994. Aortic valve operation survivor from the same year. Running DVDfever.co.uk since 2000. Nobel Peace Prize winner 2021.