John Carpenter
1) Dark Star
Publisher
VCI Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray videodisc (83 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Astronauts aboard a scout ship ridding the galaxy of unstable planets must contend with an alien life force and a talking bomb.
3) Halloween
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray videodisc (91 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Michael Myers escapes from the mental institution and returns to the house where he murdered his sister.
4) The fog
Publisher
Distributed by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An eerie, supernatural vengeance is let loose upon a town whose past is steeped in greed and murder.
6) Elvis
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (150 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 leaflet.
Description
Elvis Presley's life is traced from his impoverished childhood to his meteoric rise to stardom, and then to his triumphant return to Las Vegas in 1969.
Publisher
VCI Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 DVD videodisc (ca. 83 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Dark Star is a futuristic scoutship traveling far in advance of colony ships. Armed with Exponential Thermostellar bombs, it prowls the unstable planets. But there is one obstacle that its' crewmembers did not count on--one of the ship's thinking and talking bombs is lodged in the bay, threatening to destroy the entire ship and crew.
9) Christine
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A lonely teenager finds Christine, a car that becomes devoted to him and tries to destroy anyone who comes between it and the teen.
10) Starman
Publisher
Distributed by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 115 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"When his spacecraft is shot down over Wisconsin, Starman arrives at the remote cabin of a distraught young widow, Jenny Hayden, and clones the form of her dead husband. The alien convinces Jenny to drive him to Arizona, explaining that if he isn't picked up by his mothership in three days, he'll die. Hot on their trail are government agents, intent on capturing the alien, dead or alive. En route, Starman demonstrates the power of universal love,...
11) Halloween
Publisher
Starz Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007], p1978
Physical Desc
1 DVD (92 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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
Universal Studios Home Video
Pub. Date
c2005
Formats
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.
13) Escape from L.A
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[1998]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (101 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A chilling vision of the future, the film takes place in 2013, when Los Angeles has become a ruined landmark.
Publisher
MCA Home Video
Pub. Date
c1988
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (approximately 121 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A group of graduate students and scientists discover an ancient cannister containing a strange liquid in an abandoned church. Shortly after the discovery, the liquid seems to come alive, generating an evil energy that systematically turns members of the group into zombies. It also releases Satan, thus paving the way for the return of his father, the all-powerful Anti-God.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2000.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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,...
Formats
Description
Jack Burton, a tough-talking, wisecracking truck driver whose hum-drum life on the road takes a sudden supernatural tailspin when his best friend's fiancee is kidnapped. Speeding to the rescue, Jack finds himself deep beneath San Francisco's Chinatown, in a murky, creature-filled world ruled by Lo Pan, a 2000-year-old magician who mercilessly presides over an empire of spirits. Dodging demons and facing baffling terrors, Jack battles his way through...
Publisher
Scream Factory
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Isolated and cut off from the city inside a soon-to-be-closed L.A. police station, a group of police officers and convicts must join forces to defend themselves against the gang called Street Thunder, who have taken a blood oath to kill someone trapped inside the precinct.
18) Christine
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Formats
Description
The story of a woman who finds herself caught in the crosshairs of a spiraling personal life and career crisis. Christine, always the smartest person in the room at her local Sarasota, Florida news station, feels like she is destined for bigger things and is relentless in her pursuit of an on-air position in a larger market.
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Screenwriters ranging from newcomers to living legends share their triumphs and hardships in a probing, insightful, and often hilarious odyssey through the world of movie storytelling. Celebrated scribes reveal the fascinating creative adventures that gave birth to beloved classics (and notorious flops). By analyzing their triumphs and recalling their failures, the participants explain how successful writers develop the skills necessary for toughing...
20) The thing
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c2004.
Formats
Description
A research team at a remote research station in Antarctica finds an alien being that has fallen from the sky and has remained buried in the snow for over 100,000 years. Unfrozen and unleashed, it creates havoc and terror as it changes forms and becomes one of them.