Search - The Carpenter Collection (The Thing/They Live/Prince Of Darkness/Village Of The Damned) on DVD

K. K. (GAMER)
Reviewed on 1/11/2020...

5/5 Rating - The Thing - Classic John Carpenter must watch horror. Kurt Russell and others at their best! A unique plotline that horror fans will love!

5/5 Rating - They Live - Classic John Carpenter with a really good plotline. I'm a fan of Keith David and he is young in this movie. Roddy Piper does really well too. A must watch!

4/5 Rating - Prince of Darkness - This John Carpenter director horror flick feels like The Thing movie he directed with the suspense buildup. An all-star cast of actors including Halloween's Donald Pleasence, Simon and Simon TV series Jameson Parker, The Golden Child's Victor Wong and Music crazyman Alice Cooper! Strong sci-fi horror plotline that stalled some 3/4 the way through but picked up for the grand finale!

A fantastic collection....almost.

Hogarth Hughes | Rockwell, ME | 10/11/2003

(4 out of 5 stars)

"For this to be the ultimate JOHN CARPENTER HORROR COLLECTION, you'd have to replace the insipid VILLAGE OF THE DAMNED with the underrated IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS. The other three flicks in this worthy set are sterling examples of CARPENTER's work.
THE THING rocks. A great, slimy alien infestation nightmare of truly eerie proportions with CARPENTER fav KURT RUSSELL taking a flamethrower to his infected bunkmates with gusto. An excellent movie and an even better horror movie.
The ten minute wrestling brawl between KEITH DAVID and RODDY PIPER is just the cherry on top of the THEY LIVE sundae. A superb paranoia sci-fi action flick that has earned its cult status and then some. Not really a horror movie, but great none the less.
PRINCE OF DARKNESS birngs some interesting ideas to the mix; Jesus was an alien, the devil's kid is living in a massive jar of green Gatorade in the basement of an old church, and ALICE COOPER's possesed bum feasting on maggots, to name a few. A creepy movie with lots of chills and some good laughs.
The selections are all from the UNIVERSAL vault so no wonder VILLAGE OF THE DAMNED made the cut (MOUTH OF MADNESS is WARNER BROS.). Not bad for a collector's set, but CARPENTER really deserves a set of all his films on DVD like the KUBRICK one. That would make a prime collective of great DVD's."

Some weak Carpenter and some Great Carpenter- It's all fun!

Hogarth Hughes | 10/24/2003

(4 out of 5 stars)

"More than likely it'll be fans of John Carpenter taking a look at this set to begin with. The main hook for the fans is that "Prince of Darkness" and "They Live" have been out of
print for a long time. What better way to re-release them than alongside "The Thing" - arguably Carpenter's masterpiece?
I'm also aware that "Village of the Damned" is considered one of the weaker Carpenter movies, but it has its moments and overall, it's fun. The set is also a great price! I look at it this way: Even if you don't like one of the titles as well as the other three (whatever your Carpenter preferences may be), you're basically getting three good to great movies at a low price and a fourth one for free! You can't really go wrong. If you don't like John Carpenter, stay away. If you've seen very little to none of his movies, this is an OK way to get started."