John Carpenter movies on Blu-Ray (1 Viewer)

[Mark Hawley]

And a Carpenter/Russelll commentary!

 

[MattFini]

AMEN AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!

Please, Paramount! Give us a Carpenter/Russell commentary track for Escape from LA. Please!

 

[Michael Allred]

So "Big Trouble in Little China" AND "Starman" have been announced for BD release this August!

 

[Eric F]

Yeah, I'm really beginning to doubt They Live will ever come out (for reasons I earlier described).

 

[TravisR]

Never say never but I think you're 100% wrong. They Live has been released twice on DVD (and is still in print) so it's not like the movie has been buried and hidden. The studio could care less about the message as long as they think it will sell.

 

[Sam Posten]

They live is out in the UK on Blu:
They Live [Blu-ray] [1988]: Amazon.co.uk: Roddy Piper, Keith David, Meg Foster, George Flower, John Carpenter: DVD

 

[Lyle_JP]

The Escape From New York blu-ray is admittedly nothing great, but The Fog gets unfairly lumped in with it. The transfer is very strong, even if the grain-busting was a little high for some folk's tastes. I think it looks worlds better than the R1 DVD, and considering how cheap some of the blu-rays at amazon.co.uk have been lately, there's no reason not to get it.

 

[Tim-H.]

Last year I was lucky enough to catch a screening of THEY LIVE as part of a Carpenter mini-festival. The print was almost perfect, it looked amazing. If I could get THAT on BD, I'd be pretty happy!

In contrast, EFNY was so scratched and full of pops & jumps it was exactly like Grindhouse was trying to be. Which was pretty fun, too (except for the few poor souls who'd never seen it before).

 

[Kevin EK]

I'm really hoping that the Blu-ray of Starman will include the commentary track from the R2 DVD and some decent extras. The only DVD release it's had in the US was pretty skimpy.

I'm pretty happy with the Blu-ray of The Thing.

I agree that a solid release of They Live would be fun, particularly if it includes the R2 commentary and some goodies. By the same token, Prince of Darkness is a guilty pleasure from the same period and might benefit from some TLC. Both of those films were fairly low-budget, as I recall - Carpenter's step back after the bigger budgets of Starman and Big Trouble in Little China.

I was actually pretty happy with Cigarette Burns and about the first half of Pro-Life before things got really silly.

I continue to hope that he has another good movie in him. Who knows? He's working on something now - hopefully it will come out okay.

 

[Inspector Hammer!]

Prince of Darkness is a strange duck for me, I don't fully understand what happens in the film but yet it disturbs the hell out of me lol.

Particularly the recurring dream of the dark figure emerging from the church, it gives me the willies.

Wouldn't mind a BD of that one, Christine as well, but keep all the extras from the SE DVD. Nothing I hate more than when they release a film on BD and dump all the great extras from the DVD, it forces me to keep the DVD around when I could just as well sell it to make room for more BD's.

 

[Kevin EK]

It gets even better when they keep some features and drop others, thus making the completist need to keep EVERYTHING. I try to document this stuff in my reviews because it can drive you to distraction...

 

[Bryan^H]

If a reference quality version of "The Fog" was released this year, I would be happy. I think This John Carpenter/Debra Hill film is better than Halloween.
Gorgeous 2:35 aspect ratio, perfect music, and great cast make this one hell of a horror movie.

 

[Eric F]

MGM-HD has shown both EFNY and EFLA in the past year and as I recall they both looked pretty good.

Hmmm. I'm quite suspicious of that UK They Live Blu-Ray. Even if it was code free I have no idea of the quality of the print, if it's lossless, etc, etc.

 

[Tim-H.]

Yeah, it was just an old print of EFNY. I'm sure a proper Blu-ray release would look awesome.

 

[Mike_Richardson]

They axed that release, probably after having seen how badly ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK turned out.

 

[Sam Posten]

The buy it link looks live....

 

[ChristianLiemke]

Screenshot comparison of the German / International "The Fog" Blu-ray from Kinowelt / StudioCanal and the German "2-DVD Special Edition" from Kinowelt

 

[Paul Arnette]

 

[Sam Posten]

Bummer. Thanks for the heads up!

 

[Bryan^H]

Anyone know if this will play on a region 1 PS3?