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Post #671659

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spoRv
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Info & Info Wanted: John Carpenter movies - restoration needed?
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16-Nov-2013, 3:52 AM

As someone of you has certainly noted, I like John Carpenter movies - actually, I’ve watched all of them, and I own almost all of pre-2000 movies on laserdisc (forgive me John, I’m looking for the missing ones to complete the collection…).

Well, this is a list of the movies directed by John Carpenter:

Films - year, title, blu-ray.com video/audio rating, notes

  • 1974    Dark Star    3.2/3.4
  • 1976    Assault on Precinct 13    4.0/4.0
  • 1978    Halloween    4.7/4.2    -> [spoRv] in progress
  • 1980    The Fog        3.9/4.1
  • 1981    Escape from New York    3.5/3.9    -> [spoRv] in progress
  • 1982    The Thing    4.2/4.2    -> [spoRv] released
  • 1983    Christine    4.5/4.4
  • 1984    Starman    3.8/3.8
  • 1986    Big Trouble in Little China    4.2/4.2
  • 1987    Prince of Darkness    4.8/4.8
  • 1988    They Live    4.0/4.1
  • 1992    Memoirs of an Invisible Man    (US BD TBA, italian BD available)
  • 1995    In the Mouth of Madness    4.2/4.2
  • 1995    Village of the Damned    (not found)
  • 1996    Escape from L.A.    3.0/3.5
  • 1998    Vampires    3.5/3.5
  • 2001    Ghosts of Mars    2.9/2.5
  • 2010    The Ward    3.8/3.2

Television - year, title

  • 1978    Someone’s Watching Me!
  • 1979    Elvis
  • 1993    Body Bags
  • 2005    Masters of Horror episode “Cigarette Burns’”
  • 2006    Masters of Horror episode “Pro-Life”

I’d like to know which ones eventually need a restoration (with further info), and which ones has a proper commercial release at the present day. This is because IIRC I read somewhere that there are at least a couple of other movies which will benefit from a restoration/preservation; am I right?