John Carpenter
Publisher
First Run Features
Language
English
Formats
Description
Shane Black (Lethal Weapon), John Carpenter (Halloween), Frank Darabont (The Shawshank Redemption), William Goldman (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid), Paul Schrader (Taxi Driver), and dozens of other Hollywood screenwriters share penetrating insights and hilarious anecdotes in Peter Hanson’s Tales from the Script, the most comprehensive documentary ever made about screenwriting. By analyzing their triumphs and recalling their failures, the participants...
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Four years after her last encounter with masked killer Michael Myers, Laurie Strode is living with her granddaughter and trying to finish her memoir. Myers hasn't been seen since, and Laurie finally decides to liberate herself from rage and fear and embrace life. However, when a young man stands accused of murdering a boy that he was babysitting, it ignites a cascade of violence and terror that forces Laurie to confront the evil she can't control....
6) Halloween II
Language
English
Formats
Description
Picking up precisely where its predecessor left off, follows the same ill-fated characters as they encounter the knife-wielding maniac they left for dead in the first Halloween. It seems the inhuman Michael Myers is still very much alive and out for more revenge as he stalks the deserted halls of the hospital where his sister lays waiting.
7) Halloween
Publisher
Distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[p2000], c1978
Edition
Widescreen and standard versions.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sd., col., ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
On Halloween night years ago, little Michael Meyers brutally slaughtered his sister in cold blood. But for the last fifteen years, town residents have rested easy, knowing that he was safely locked away in a mental hospital ... until tonight. Tonight, Michael returns to the same quiet neighborhood to relive his grisly murder again ... and again ... and again. Tonight is Halloween!
8) Starman
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
1998, c1984
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 115 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
Language
English
Description
Jack Burton is a big-talking, wisecracking trucker who is suddenly hurled into a wild adventure when his friend's fiancee is kidnapped by Lo Pan's minions.
10) Halloween
Publisher
Distributed by Starz Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
Full and widescreen presentations.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Fifteen years ago, Michael Myers brutally murdered his sister. After escaping from a mental institution, he returns to his hometown to kill again.
11) Halloween
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Blu-ray edition.
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray disc (91 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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...
Language
English
Description
Halloween night. A young Michael Myers butchers his older sister with a kitchen knife. Fifteen years later, he escapes from a mental institution only to return home and terrorize the town and babysitter Laurie.
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...
14) The fog
Publisher
Distributed by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
Special ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An eerie, supernatural vengeance is let loose upon a town whose past is steeped in greed and murder.
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Blu-ray edition.
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray disc (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This is a riveting tale of murder and suspense. The story of New York's most controversial fashion photographer. World renowned for her sensational, erotic portraits of models in settings of glorified urban violence, She exhibits a mystifying psychic ability. In her mind's eye, as if through the lens of her camera, she 'witnesses' a series of bizarre murders with terrifying clarity. All of the victims are people she has known.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Video
Pub. Date
c2005
Edition
[Widescreen ed.].
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (109 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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.
17) The Thing
Language
English
Description
When 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
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Blu-ray edition.
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray disc (115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"New York's most controversial fashion photographer Laura Mars exhibits a mystifying psychic ability. In her mind's eye, she "witnesses" a series of bizarre murders with terrifying clarity"--Container.
Publisher
VCI Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Edition
Widescreen special ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (83 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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.