Genres: Film Score, Blues Rock. º NEW Time To Kill Some Vampires – An Interview With Composer/Director John Carpenter, Producer Sandy King Carpenter, And Cinematographer Garry B. Kibbe, º NEW Jack The Slayer – An Interview With Actor James Woods, º NEW The First Vampire – An Interview With Actor Thomas Ian Griffith, º NEW Raising The Stakes – An Interview With Special Effects Artist Greg Nicotero, º NEW Padre – An Interview With Actor Tim Guinee, º Audio Commentary By Composer/Director John Carpenter, º Audio Commentary By Composer/Director John Carpenter, º The Making of John Carpenter's Vampires. Kibbe is a light participant, but Sandy really leads the charge here in discussing the film as she and John have a real fondness for this film and there are many great intricate things they bring when ⦠John Carpenter follows almost NO vampire lore in the making of Vampires, which makes for a very confusing and disappointing film. It looks good, and a few needless music video transitions aside (because late ’90s), the editing heightens the tension. Released 13 October 1998 on Milan (catalog no. Does Scream Factory's Blu-ray of Vampires give me mahogany? In. He lives his life by a very strict set of rules about what, where, and when vampire hunting should take place. 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. He got bit by a vampire. "Forget everything you've ever heard about vampires," warns Jack Crow (James Woods), the leader of Team Crow, a relentless group of mercenary vampire slayers. "Forget everything you've ever heard about vampires," warns Jack Crow (James Woods), the leader of Team Crow, a relentless group of mercenary vampire slayers. "Forget everything you've ever heard about vampires," warns Jack Crow (James Woods), the leader of Team Crow, a relentless group of mercenary vampire slayers. John Carpenter's Vampires, an Album by John Carpenter. Directed by John Carpenter. In the blood-chilling tradition of Halloween and Village of the Damned comes John Carpenter's unique vision of the ultimate killing machines, VAMPIRES. So Jack thinks Katrina will be able to help them find Valek before she turns. Jack Crow is sexist, homophobic, and disdainful of everyone. Pretty awesome if you like that sort of thing. On paper, John Carpenterâs Vampires sounds like a canât miss proposition: a violent, profane, casually heretical, hard-R vampire western from one of horrorâs greatest and most distinctive auteurs, a bonkers combination of shit-kicking action thrills and horror mythology. After 21 years, it still feels like Carpenter, but definitely shows its age in some very particular ways. They spend their days hunting for master vampires and their nests, and their nights drinking heavily and partaking in drugs and debauchery. In the blood-chilling tradition of Halloween and Village of the Damned comes John Carpenter's unique vision of the ultimate killing machines, VAMPIRES. He’d be unstoppable. In the blood-chilling tradition of Halloween and Village of the Damned comes John Carpenter's unique vision of the ultimate killing machines, VAMPIRES. The movie also, obviously, takes its cues from classic Western iconography, which gives it a vibe that spoke to me in the mid-2000s. Jon Bon Jovi stars as veteran vampire hunter Derek Bliss, who is called down to Mexico for a special mission to get rid of a gang of bloodsucking undead. A confessed gore-hound in those days, I remember loving the prosthetic carnage of KNB Effects; in the opening vampire attack, one vamp gets a wooden stake through the forehead. Thralls are people who have been bitten by a master vampire, but not completely drained. A contemporary and blood-chilling take on the gothic legend, horror master John Carpenter's Vampires stars James Woods as the ultimate vampire slayer ⦠His takes on horror, sci-fi, and action were unique at the time, but with 20 to 40 years of hindsight, new filmmakers are aping his style, tone, and aesthetic left and right. The action is great; the effects are terrific; the music (by Carpenter, natch) is fantastic. Business is good for the slayers until Valek (Thomas Ian Griffith), the very first vampire, arrives in search of a particular Christian relic that, legend has it, will allow him to walk in the daylight. The fate of t⦠Vampyres, a 1974 erotic lesbian vampire film by José Ramón Larraz; Vampire, a 1979 TV film, starring Jason Miller and E. G. Marshall; Vampires, a film by Len Anthony and starring Duane Jones; Vampires, a film adaptation of Vampire$, by John Carpenter; Vampire (2010 film), a horror-thriller drama by Jon Cunningham and starring Jason Carter 978-0-451-45033-3 (first edition) OCLC. ... vampire slayers who are really mercs harping on about rules and protocol makes me laugh too. Plus a ton of great KNB effects, a low key dope J-Carp soundtrack, the doofiest Baldwin brother, a shitty 90âs party ⦠John Carpenter’s VAMPIRES Has Not Aged Well, Alpha will be closing on March 31. On September 24, 2019, Scream Factory proudly presents the definitive release of John Carpenter's Vampires on Blu-ray. When I saw Vampires in the theater, I quite liked it. The elements are all there for a holds-the-hell-up action-horror flick. As such, Jack and his cronies fire harpoons and arrows into the vamps and drag them out into the sunlight like flammable groupers. Sheryl Lee! But "John Carpenter's Vampires'' gets its imprimatur from the Hollywood Catholic Church, a branch that broke off about the time the priest climbed the stairs to Linda Blair's bedroom in "The Exorcist'' (1973). You get the standard commentary, some interviews, and an old making-of featurette. John Carpenter delivers a bold new vision of the undead in his action/horror film Vampires. John Carpenterâs Vampires (1998) â Live Tweets By Bea This entry was posted on May 8, 2014 by czarinaboomkat, in Movie Reviews, Tweets and tagged 90s, horror, month, movie, Tweets, vampires. Eventually, a young priest from the Vatican, Father Adam (Tim Guinee) joins in the fight as well with all of humanity at stake. He kept it a secret from me and my mother. During an on-stage interview recorded in 1994 and included on Indicator's dual format release of Ghosts of Mars, director John Carpenter is asked by a member of the audience if he would like to have directed Interview with a Vampire, to which he responds with an emphatic "No." In the blood-chilling tradition of Halloween and Village of the Damned comes John Carpenter's unique vision of the ultimate killing machines, VAMPIRES. NEW Time To Kill Some Vampires â An Interview With Composer/Director John Carpenter, Producer Sandy King Carpenter, And Cinematographer Garry B. Kibbe; NEW Jack The Slayer â An Interview With Actor James Woods; NEW The First Vampire â An Interview With Actor ⦠As Valek nears the climax of his 600-year search for the Berziers Cross, Jack and the new Team Crow do everything possible to prevent him from possessing the only thing that can grant him and all the vampires the omnipotent power to walk the world in daylight. This is yet another fantastic horror in John Carpenter's long list of awesome movies over the years, he tackles the vampire genre in his own way and gives us a cool classic horror, all the Carpenter touches are here, including a great music score, the cast is all good, James Woods and Daniel Baldwin lead the way and Sheryl Lee is sexy eye candy, there is plenty of bloody ⦠Vampires (1998) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. Plot: THE CONFRONTATION OF THE AGES IS ABOUT TO BEGIN. Follow him on Twitter! Muscular and uncompromised, the sequence suggests a new Carpenter ⦠73138 35851-2; CD). You can find his film and TV reviews here. Vampires should be nothing less than John Carpenterâs Near Dark with the poetry of ⦠He smacks around Katrina and throws her to the ground a lot in this movie; he does the same to the meek beta male Father Adam and only respects the Padre when he “mans up” by the end. 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The principal reason he gives is that, in his view at least, there was little mileage left in the vampire sub-genre⦠Snake Plissken says “F you” to authority. Evidently, when a master bites someone, they’re psychically linked. 25775691. For those who haven’t seen, John Carpenter’s Vampires follows a group of vampire hunters in the American Southwest. She is the sole psychic link to Valek and they use her to track down the leader of the undead. The story follows a pair of vampire slayers that go rogue in order to pursue a master vampire ⦠Even when the more backwoods protagonists, like Jack Burton in Big Trouble in Little China, say misogynist things, the movie makes them seem like idiots. There’s an angry counterculture tinge to them. A dark fantasy with a contemporary setting, the novel concerns a company called Vampire$, Inc. which treats vampire -hunting as a commercial enterprise, funded by large payments from the vampires' potential victims and secretly ⦠The movie makes it clear time and again that these aren’t people—that once someone is bitten, they cease to deserve decency because soon they’ll just be another monster. "Forget everything you've ever heard about vampires," warns Jack Crow (James Woods), the leader of Team Crow, a relentless group of mercenary vampire slayers. Recovering from an ambush that killed his entire team, a vengeful vampire slayer must retrieve an ancient Catholic relic that, should it be acquired by vampires, will allow them to walk in sunlight. Vampires, also known as John Carpenter's Vampires, is a 1998 American western-horror film directed and scored by John Carpenter. âMy father kept a secret once. Carpenter wanted his titular bloodsuckers to be like rats, hiding in shadow during the day and then attacking like rabid animals at night. Pun. John Carpenter's Vampires is a 1998 film by John Carpenter and starring James Woods and Daniel Baldwin loosely based on the novel Vampires. This is not to say there’s nothing enjoyable still about John Carpenter’s Vampires. Bonus Features. That’s his vibe! But in all cases, that vibe seems to come from the point of view of people oppressed by The Man. His last hit movie was 1998’s Vampires, which opened at #1 at the box office. Adapted from the novel Vampire$ by John Steakley, the film stars James Woods as Jack Crow, leader of a Catholic Church-sanctioned team of vampire hunters. Breaking all the rules, Crow and Montoya take one of Valek's victims hostage – a beautiful but unlucky prostitute (Sheryl Lee). When the movie’s main baddie lays waste to the reveling hunters, he slices one in half with his hands. A lot of Carpenter’s movies have a nihilistic and cynical edge to them. With James Woods, Daniel Baldwin, Sheryl Lee, Thomas Ian Griffith. Ever since his parents were murdered by vampires, Jack Crow (James Woods) has had one purpose in life: putting stakes through bloodsuckersâ hearts. I as 14 when Vampires came out and I remember the commercials vividly, but I didn’t see R-rated movies until I was age appropriate, so it wasn’t until I was in college that I first saw the movie. It was his first film after the box office failure of In the Mouth of Madness, which has gone on to become a cult classic.It was to be his last movie of the â90s, and arguably his last good film, as he followed it up with Ghosts of Mars in 2001 and The Ward in 2010, both of them ⦠He slaughters most of the slayers and sex workers in a particular motel one evening, leaving only Jack, Montoya (Daniel Baldwin), and a freshly bitten sex worker named Katrina (Sheryl Lee). Tended. Nada in They Live wants to take down the evil patriarchy. Still, it’s probably Carpenter’s eleventh best movie. This week marks the 20th anniversary of the release of John Carpenterâs Vampires, a movie I have had a love/hate relationship with for the last two decades.While there is a lot for horror fans to enjoy within the film (and it is cited by Carpenter himself as the motivation to keep directing films), it unfortunately bears very little resemblance ⦠This is yet another fantastic horror in John Carpenter's long list of awesome movies over the years, he tackles the vampire genre in his own way and gives us a cool classic horror, all the Carpenter touches are here, including a great music score, the cast is all good, James Woods and Daniel Baldwin lead the way and Sheryl Lee is sexy eye candy, there is plenty of bloody ⦠His team is rough and tumble but highly funded and very effective. But here’s the thing: while I still love the basic set-up and lore and the sun-scorched desert visuals, its attitude and the characters’ actions feel less “edgy” today than they feel backwards and problematic. So I finally broke down and bought it on Blu-ray. "Forget everything you've ever heard about vampires⦠BY JESS PEACOCK. John Carpenter is practically his own genre at this point. For the Lord, of course. Vampires (also known as John Carpenter's Vampires) is a 1998 American independent Neo-Western action horror film directed and scored by John Carpenter and starring James Woods. So it’s a good set-up, as I said. But even though the movie is 21 years old, its attitude feels more akin to something much older. For those who havenât seen, John Carpenterâs Vampires follows a group of vampire hunters in the American Southwest. But it’s just the attitude. John Carpenter's Vampires By John Carpenter. Written by: John Steakley (novel), Don Jakoby (screenplay), Starring: James Woods, Daniel Baldwin, Sheryl Lee. Kyle Anderson is the Editor at Large for Nerdist. John Carpenter’s Vampires is available in a fancy special edition Blu-ray set on September 24 from Scream Factory; another fantastic addition to anyone’s Carpenter shelf. That time in 1998 when John Carpenter exploited the B movie with Vampires... his take on the 80âs action masterpieces like Cobra and Comando put through a Big Trouble in Little China filter and a lifelong love of the Western genre.. Oh and vampires! Start typing to see results or hit ESC to close, Join our Facebook group for more cult film discussion, John Carpenter’s Vampires Blu-ray Review (Scream Factory), NSFW Gallery: John Carpenter’s Vampires (Scream Factory Blu-ray) Screenshots. That’s apparently all the good she is to them now. It is about a group of vampire hunters out to prevent the original master vampire from getting the Cross of Berziers which will allow him to walk in the sunlight. "Forget everything you've ever heard about vampires," warns Jack Crow (James Woods), the leader of Team Crow, a relentless group of mercenary vampire slayers. Prepare for the dawn. Itâs a pretty standard SHOUT Factory release for a John Carpenter film. And yet. Montoya eventually falls for Katrina, but he treats her like shit up until then. It was adapted from the novel Vampire$ by John Steakley.
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