John Carpenter
1) Starman
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
1998, c1984
Language
English
Description
An alien, from a distant planet, lands in Wisconsin and arrives at the remote cabin of Jenny Hayden, a distraught young widow. The alien (Starman) convinces her to drive him to Arizona, explaining that if he is not picked up by his mothership in three days he will die. En route, Starman demonstrates the power of universal love, while Jenny rediscovers her human feelings for passion.
Publisher
Distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
In an isolated women's clinic, a terrified pregnant 15-year-old girl is trapped inside. Outside, her anti-abortion activist father and armed brothers are ready to smash their way in. In this health-center-turned-slaughterhouse, there will be hell to pay.
3) Halloween
Publisher
Starz Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
In 1963, six-year-old Michael Myers brutally killed his older sister. The silent child was incarcerated in the Smith's Grove Sanitarium under the care of psychiatrist Sam Loomis. Michael's hometown of Haddonfield was slowly beginning to forget the tragic crime. That is until Loomis returns to the town to warn them of Myers' escape from Smith's Grove. With Michael set on killing a group of high school students, Loomis gets the hesitant town sheriff...
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
On October 31, 1963, six-year-old Michael Myers brutally stabs his sister Judith to death with a kitchen knife at their home in Haddonfield, Illinois. He is sent to Smith's Grove-Warren County Sanitarium and placed under the care of psychiatrist Dr. Sam Loomis (Donald Pleasance). Loomis suspects that there is more to Myers than meets the eye and plans to have him committed indefinitely, despite the fact that Michael seems docile and does not speak...
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
In a world ravaged by crime, the entire island of Manhattan has been converted into a prison which houses the world's most brutal inmates. And when the President of the United States crash lands inside, only one man can bring him back: Snake Plissken, a notorious outlaw and former Special Forces war hero who, in exchange for a full pardon, descends into the decayed city and wages a blistering war against the captors. But time is short: in 24 hours,...
6) Halloween
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
It's 40 years after killer Michael Myers wreaked his havoc on Halloween night. Laurie Strode remembers the horrific event from her first-hand experience of it all. Although Myers has been imprisoned, Strode has been preparing herself for the chance that he'll somehow get out to embark on another killing spree. When Myers does, Strode will be ready to try to end the killer's murderous ways, once and for all. Will she prevail if she and Myers come face-to-face...
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Halloween 4: "Ten years ago, he changed the face of Halloween. Tonight, he's back. It's a decade after the original Halloween massacre in Haddonfield, and Michael Myers lays comatose in a maximum security prison hospital. But when he learns of the existence of his young niece Jamie (Danielle Harris), he escapes to return home and fulfill his destiny of destruction. Can Michael's relentless killing spree be stopped by Dr. Loomis (the legendary Donald...
Language
English
Description
Jack Crow is the leader of a team of mercenary vampire slayers dedicated to doing everything humanly possible to prevent Valek, the leader of the undead, from discovering the Berziers Cross, the only thing that can grant all vampires the omnipotent power to walk in the daylight.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
A notorious mobster is brought into an under-manned police precinct on its last day of operation. Remaining cops and prisoners must fight for their lives against a group of rogue cops intent on taking down the mobster before he testifies against them.
11) Escape from L.A
Series
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
1998, 1996
Language
English
Description
A chilling vision of the future, the film takes place in 2013, when Los Angeles has become a ruined landmark. Snake Plissken is once again called in by the United States government to recover a potential doomsday device from Los Angeles, now an autonomous island where undesirables are deported.
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Video
Pub. Date
�1998, [2001?]
Language
English
Description
Laurie Strode, using an assumed name and now the dean of a Northern California private school, is still struggling with the horrifying 20-year-old memories of the maniacal killer Michael Meyers. When he reappears, she must conquer her fears and battle him one last time, for the life of her son hangs in the balance.
13) Halloween
Publisher
Weinstein Company
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
The residents of Haddonfield don't know it yet, but death is coming to their small sleepy town. Sixteen years ago, Michael Myers, a ten year old boy, brutally kills his step father, his elder sister and her boyfriend. Sixteen years later, he escapes from the mental institution he has been placed in and makes his way back to his hometown intent on a murderous rampage. He is pursued by Dr. Sam Loomis who is Michael's doctor and the only one who knows...
14) The thing
Language
English
Description
W hen paleontologist Kate Lloyd travels to an isolated outpost in Antarctica for the expedition of a lifetime, she joins an international team that unearths a remarkable discovery. Their elation quickly turns to fear as they realize that their experiment has freed a mysterious being from its frozen prison. Paranoia spreads like an epidemic as a creature that can mimic anything it touches will pit human against human as it tries to survive and flourish...
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
She was born in Detroit on an automobile assembly line. But she is no ordinary automobile. Deep within her chassis lives an unholy presence. She is Christine, a red and white 1958 Plymouth Fury whose unique standard equipment includes an evil, indestructible vengeance that will destroy anyone in her way.
16) They live
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
One man discovers that aliens are masquerading as humans while they lull the public into submission through subliminal advertising messages. Only specially made sunglasses make the deadly truth visible.
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Halloween H20: Laurie Strode, using an assumed name and now the dean of a Northern California private school, is still struggling with the horrifying 20-year-old memories of the maniacal killer Michael Myers. When he reappears, she must conquer her fears and battle him one last time, for the life of her son hangs in the balance. Halloween-- resurrection: An Internet reality show challenges six college students to spend the night in Michael Myers'...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2013
Language
English
Description
The blob (1988, 95 min.): A malignant, gelatinous life form takes over a small town as it grows and grows, consuming everything in its path.
Christine (1983, 110 min.): The twisted love story of a teenager and his obsessively jealous 1958 Plymouth Fury.
Fright night (1985, 106 min.): A teenager enlists the help of a TV horror movie host to subdue a suave vampire.
Seventh sign (1988, 97 min.): A young woman must prevent her unborn baby from playing...
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The Return: Sarah Michelle Gellar (The Grudge) stars in this shocking, non-stop supernatural thriller unlike anything you've ever experienced before. Joanna Mills (Gellar) is haunted by increasingly terrifying visions where she can see and feel the brutal murder of a woman she's never met. With her life spiraling out-of-control, she follows the relentless nightmares to an eerie small town in Texas - a place where secrets can't be buried, a spirit...