| John Carpenter's Vampires (1998)
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| Front Cover |
Actor |
Back Cover |
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| James Woods |
Jack Crow
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| Daniel Baldwin |
Tony Montoya
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| Sheryl Lee |
Katrina
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| Thomas Ian Griffith |
Valek
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| Tim Guinee |
Father Adam Guiteau
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| Maximilian Schell |
Cardinal Alba
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| Jon Bon Jovi |
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| Cristián de la Fuente |
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| Natasha Wagner |
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| Arly Jover |
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| Darius MacCrary |
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| Movie Details |
| Genre |
Action; Horror |
| Director |
John Carpenter; Tommy Lee Wallace |
| Studio |
CTV International |
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| Language |
English |
| Audience Rating |
R (Restricted) |
| Running Time |
104 mins |
| Country |
USA |
| Color |
Color |
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| Plot |
| Talk about an opening. The first few minutes of John Carpenter's Vampires--in which James Woods's vampire killer leads a dawn raid on a New Mexico "goon nest" of bloodsuckers--not only suggests a horror movie that will not pull any punches, it even evokes some of the more disturbing dream-memories of American Westerns. Muscular and uncompromised, the sequence suggests a new Carpenter classic unraveling before one's eyes. Well, dream on. Things don't quite work out that way, but this is still a film to reckon with. There are a few serious (and surprising) misjudgments on the director's part, particularly a mishandling of Sheryl Lee's role as a prostitute poisoned by the bite of a "master vampire" (who pretty much wiped out Woods's team of goon terminators). But aside from some weaknesses, the action is jolting, the suggested complicity of the Catholic Church in destroying monsters is provocative, and the traces of Howard Hawks's continuing influence on Carpenter's storytelling are in evidence. --Tom Keogh |
| Personal Details |
| Seen It |
Yes |
| Index |
6 |
| Collection Status |
In Collection |
| Purchase Price |
$7.88 |
| Store |
Best Buy |
| Links |
IMDB
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| Product Details |
| Edition |
Superbit |
| Format |
DVD |
| Region |
Region |
| Screen Ratio |
2.35 Wide Screen / 2.35 Anamorphic Wide Screen |
| Layers |
Single Side, Dual Layer |
| UPC (Barcode) |
043396012257 |
| Release Date |
2003 |
| Subtitles |
Dutch; English; English for the hearing impaired; Hindi |
| Packaging |
Amaray schwarz |
| Audio Tracks |
Dolby Digital 5.1 - English
English |
| Nr of Disks/Tapes |
1 |
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Extra Features
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| Widescreen Dolby DTS Surround Sound |
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