John Carpenter's Vampires
by John Carpenter
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Actor: Daniel Baldwin, James Woods, Maximilian Schell, Sheryl Lee, Thomas Ian GriffithDirector: John Carpenter
Brand: Sony
Cinematographer: Gary B. Kibbe
Producer: Barr B. Potter
Producer: David Rodgers
Producer: Don Jakoby
Writer: Don Jakoby
Producer: Sandy King
Writer: John Steakley
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Full Screen
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen, 1.33:1
Running Time: 108 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1999-02-09
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Summary of John Carpenter's Vampires
JOHN CARPENTER'S VAMPIRES - DVD MovieTalk 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
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