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John Carpenter's Vampires

James Woods (Actor), Sheryl Lee (Actor), John Carpenter (Director) Rated:
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Genre Horror
Format Multiple Formats, Color, NTSC, Full Screen, Dolby, Closed-captioned
Contributor Thomas Ian Griffith, Sheryl Lee, James Woods, Daniel Baldwin, Film Office; Largo Entertainment, Inc.; Spooky Tooth Productions, John Carpenter, Maximillian Schell, Sandy King See more
Language English
Runtime 1 hour and 47 minutes
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A contemporary and blood-chilling take on the gothic legend, horror master John Carpenter's Vampires stars James Woods as the ultimate vampire slayer on his most dangerous mission ever.

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Talk about an opening. 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. Muscular and uncompromised, the sequence suggests a new Carpenter classic unraveling before one's eyes. Well, dream on. Things don't quite work out that way, but this is still a film to reckon with. There are a few serious (and surprising) misjudgments on the director's part, particularly a mishandling of Sheryl Lee's role as a prostitute poisoned by the bite of a "master vampire" (who pretty much wiped out Woods's team of goon terminators). But aside from some weaknesses, the action is jolting, the suggested complicity of the Catholic Church in destroying monsters is provocative, and the traces of Howard Hawks's continuing influence on Carpenter's storytelling are in evidence. --Tom Keogh

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  • Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 1.33:1
  • Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
  • MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ R (Restricted)
  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.5 x 0.7 x 5.4 inches; 4 ounces
  • Item model number ‏ : ‎ 43396030640
  • Director ‏ : ‎ John Carpenter
  • Media Format ‏ : ‎ Multiple Formats, Color, NTSC, Full Screen, Dolby, Closed-captioned
  • Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 47 minutes
  • Release date ‏ : ‎ February 9, 1999
  • Actors ‏ : ‎ James Woods, Sheryl Lee, Daniel Baldwin, Thomas Ian Griffith, Maximillian Schell
  • Dubbed: ‏ : ‎ French
  • Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ English, French
  • Producers ‏ : ‎ Sandy King
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround), English (Dolby Digital 5.1), French (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround), Unqualified
  • Studio ‏ : ‎ Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ 6305258287
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1
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The definitive version of John Carpenter's Vampires (Indicator release)
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The definitive version of John Carpenter's Vampires (Indicator release)
This is one of the best vampire movies ever made and one of the best of the latter years of horror maser John Carpenter.I was ecstatic when I seen that this movie was finally being released on blu ray by an amazing company based in the UK called Indicator.Along with Arrow Video, Scream Factory, and Grindhouse Releasing, Indicator puts out really nice packages with amazing transfers and a good scoop of special features.This release of Vampires is no exception.Really nice double disc with the blu ray and DVD.Also includes a nice sized booklet with behind the scene photos and an essay on the film.Also has a reversible cover with the UK rating on the front, or the flip side is the US artwork, minus the UK rating information.Actual blu ray case is clear, like the Arrow and Criterion releases.Really looks nice.The transfer on the blu ray disc really does look fantastic, although a lot of the daytime scenes appear somewhat dark.I don't know if this is from the transfer process or if it was the way the actual film was photographed, but I don't recall any of the previous formats looking that dark in the daytime scenes.Regardless, that is in no way a major problem, this release looks incredible.The very best this movie has ever looked.I couldn't be happier with it.The transfer along with the double discs, booklet and special features (including a making-of featurette and a commentary by director John Carpenter) makes this release a very high recommend.If you're a Carpenter fan and/or fan of vampire movies, you need this release.Pay the extra money and own this definitive version.
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  • Kevin Oehlers
    5.0 out of 5 stars ok
    Reviewed in the United States on February 15, 2025
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  • Providential
    5.0 out of 5 stars Very 90s
    Reviewed in the United States on May 15, 2020
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    John Carpenter's Vampires is not a good movie. It's a fun popcorn movie, but it's bad, and very dated to the late 90s. Very mild spoilers are necessary to explain some caveats.

    The setup: In comic book fashion, vampire hunters stalk the American Southwest hunting down packs of undead. They drink, they curse, they crack jokes. Things quickly go south when the master vampire tracks down our hunters. It's up to Jack Crow, the Catholic Church's chosen hunter, to set things right - even if it means going against the Church. The plot is bog standard stuff, but the comedy of our perverted hunters interacting with their priest cohorts makes for an interesting twist on the formula.

    What's good: I personally like James Woods as Jack Crow. He's gross, he's funny, he treats his role with the appropriate mix of grim seriousness and levity. Daniel Baldwin as Montoya does an amazing job at being a total scumbag who's nonetheless always there for Jack. Sheryl Lee steals the show as Katrina, a prostitute who is bitten by the master and forms a psychic bond which may help our hunters track down the master. Tim Guinee also puts in a good turn as Father Adam Guiteau, the slightly nebbish replacement priest for our crew. Together they form a very memorable crew. Some of the action scenes - in particular the method they use to drag vampires out of their nests - is very neat and builds good tension.

    What's not good: This is a movie starring anti-heroes, and they really come across as scumbags, so it can be had to root for them. While that can be a cool concept, it does go a few hits too far. Some of Montoya's rough handling of Katrina makes sense given that she's been bitten by a vampire, but it does go too far. Montoya is still beating Katrina even as it becomes clear he's developing feelings for her, and a late-movie turn where they even love each other just feels icky. Crow is still threatening to murder his priest far past the point where it's really even helpful to his cause, and the priest begins to trust Crow rather than being permanently scarred. A low-rent production with an only-okay script doesn't help. You start to realize this movie is filmed in the Southwest because deserts are cheap to film in and don't require permits. The master enemy is totally generic, his performance does nothing, and the "vampire vision" looks like a 90s nu-metal video replete with soundtrack. So our heroes are scumbags, our villain is almost a placeholder, and there's a music video scene where vampires climb out of the dirt to 90s nu-metal. This can have audiences laughing or groaning rather than getting excited.

    Overall: As a dumb popcorn action movie, Vampires works for me. I like the idea of scumbag anti-heroes being hired by the Catholic Church to root out vampires. It's a great spin on the idea that it takes a monster to kill a monster. But the scumbag factor is a little too high so I don't like the characters, the production is too cheap, and the late 90s music video portions are not going to win anyone over. I still watch it every few years, especially for the performances, but it's overall nowhere near Carpenter's masterpieces. Most people agree they'd rather watch Ghosts of Mars - another stinker - but I'm a little partial to Vampires just because of the lead performances.
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  • Todd Story
    5.0 out of 5 stars John made it the best!
    Reviewed in the United States on September 13, 2024
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    This represents what we grew up with about Vampires. I have over 50 Vampire movies and this one is my very favorite. Might not be for the children though. This is for the grown up horror fans! I happily added it to my collection! You’ll love it! You will want to own this one! If you rent it, you’ll just buy it for yourself anyway! Put the rental money towards buying it and save! ✌️
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  • cookieman108
    4.0 out of 5 stars "Time to kill some vampires. You with us, Padre?"
    Reviewed in the United States on August 9, 2006
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    Directed by John Carpenter (Halloween, The Fog, Escape from New York), Vampires (1998) stars James Woods (The Onion Field, Videodrome, Any Given Sunday)...Kurt Russell must have had a prior engagement...as Jack Crow, vampire hunter extraordinaire and master of the colorful invective. Also appearing is one of the lesser Baldwin brothers, Daniel, to be exact ("Homicide: Life on the Street", Mulholland Falls), who had an interesting turn last year on VH1's celebrity reality show "Celebrity Fit Club" possibly...scratch that...definitely indicating ongoing substance abuse issues, Thomas Ian Griffith (Behind Enemy Lines, xXx), Sheryl Lee ("Twin Peaks", "One Tree Hill"), Tim Guinee (Blade), whom I best remember from his role on the television show "Law and Order" as an infinitely creepy, manipulative killer who defends himself at trial (it was a 2001 episode titled "Hubris"), and Maximilian Schell (Judgment at Nuremberg, The Black Hole), godfather to actress Angelina Jolie.

    As the film, set in the American southwest, begins, we see Jack Crow and his Roman-Catholic ordained and funded crew of mercenaries arriving at a dilapidated, isolated farmhouse they believe to contain a nest of vampires (and they're right). After cleaning house the crew of misfits celebrates with a drunken whoopee party in a nearby seedy motel, only to get slaughtered as a really powerful vampire (master of the nest they most recently destroyed), donning a velour overcoat, shows up effectively spoiling the festivities (nothing kills a party like having your melon torn off). Jack and another of his team, one named Montoya (Baldwin), manage to escape, taking along Katrina (Lee), a prostitute at the party who has since been bitten, as she's now Jack's only link to the one who decimated his team. Eventually Jack discovers, through his church connections, that the vampire that attacked him is one bad mofo, a six hundred year old European blood fiend named Jan Valek (Griffith), and has come to the new world in search of an religious artifact that when used in a ritual, will allow him to become even more powerful that he already is...(hint, he'd no longer have to use SPF 1000 during the daytime). As Jack, Montoya, Katrina, and a priest named Father Adam (Guinee), the last a new addition as the old padre didn't survive the events at the motel, track Valek across the Southwest, seems Valek's been a busy little imp calling forth some of his brethren masters to not only assist him in locating the religious artifact mentioned earlier, but to be a part of the ceremony that will give him what he utmost desires. Jack and his motley eventually do catch up to Valek in some podunk town only to discover they've walked into the middle of vampire central, and the only way out is through Valek and his thirsty, bitey minions...

    While I did enjoy this film, it's certainly not among Carpenter's best or most memorable. Even so, a half-ashed effort from Carpenter is generally better and more entertaining than a full on effort from any number of directors currently schlepping out features these days (Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars may be the exception). Woods is fun to watch, as his trademark intense, semi-psychotic, flippant, profanity-spewing manner, seen in any number of previous features, is definitely present here (he always seems to be set at `eleven'). He does portray the typical Carpenter anti-hero well, but I can't help but wonder how much different the film would have been had Carpenter had Kurt Russell, who Carpenter's used in a number of films, in the lead instead of Woods, as Russell presents a generally more readily identifiable (and likable) character than Woods in a role like this (can you picture James Woods starring in Escape from New York or Big Trouble in Little China?). As far as the others, they did all right, but no one really stood out over another. I've never been a big fan of any of the Baldwins (they're all showboating, pretty boy, prima donnas in my opinion), so having Daniel here (the least of the bunch) really wasn't a positive aspect for me. As far as Valek, played by Thomas Ian Griffith, he certainly was a menace, but the character seemed to lack any personality traits that differentiated him from any number of vampires I've already seen in other films. Something else...at one point in the film Wood's character lays it out for Father Adam, in terms of what they're up against with the vampires...in doing so he jabs the effeminate portrayals presented in such films as Interview with a Vampire, in a roundabout way, but honestly, the vampire depicted here doesn't seem to be a fountain of manliness, but really a European dandy with a taste for hemoglobin. As far as the story, there are some interesting twists and turns, all punctuated by Woods and his gift for profanity laden gab, along with quite a bit of blood soaked violence. I particularly liked the fiery effects used when the vampires where exposed to sunlight (seemed the more powerful the vampire, the more explosive the effect). The converted armored car/battle wagon used by Jack and his crew was kind of cool, as was some of their sophisticated weaponry (when I say `sophisticated', I mean a flashlight built into a fancy crossbow or such). There's plenty of action and things move along well, strung together with some original scoring by Carpenter himself (Carpenter does a lot of his own music, which tends to fit with the material well, but can become repetitive over time). While this isn't the best of modern vampire films I've seen (I've always been partial to Near Dark), it's entertaining and worth a look, especially if you're a fan of Carpenter and/or Woods.

    There seems to be a few DVD releases of this film floating around, but the one I own is the Superbit version. What's this Superbit business, you ask? Well, it involves how the material is compressed and transferred to the DVD (there's an insert that gives more details), providing what is supposed to be high-end picture, which is good, right? Well yes, but if you dig on special features, then it might not be so good as the material (both in terms of the audio and video) that makes up the film requires usage of a lot more space on the disc, effectively eliminating any room for extras (I guess adding a second DVD with just extra features isn't a viable option). As a result, the picture, presented in widescreen (2.35:1) anamorphic, looks very clean and sharp, and the audio, available in both Dolby Digital 5.1 and DTS, comes through well, but there are no extras, other than subtitles available in English, Spanish, French, and Portuguese. I'm thinking this Superbit technology may end up being a moot point with the rapid introduction of high definition, but I'm no techno wiz...all in all three and a half stars for the film, plus an extra half for the DVD, for a total of four stars.

    Cookieman108

    By the way, there was a puesdo sequel put out titled Vampires: Los Muertos (2002), with Carpenter and his wife Sandy King listed as executive producers, written and directed by Tommy Lee Wallace (Halloween III: Season of the Witch, Fright Night Part 2), that stars Jon Bon Jovi, and incorporates elements from this story, if you're interested. I haven't seen it, but it's out there...

    One last point...at the beginning, I don't understand why Jack and his crew bothered searching the vacant house for vampires, risking their necks...why not just douse it with gas, burn it down and be done with it? Because it wouldn't have been as fun, I suppose...
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  • Joseph Shingler
    5.0 out of 5 stars Critically under-rated Carpenter flim
    Reviewed in the United States on September 21, 2024
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    A lot of great unheralded vampire films like Carpenter's Vampires and Bigalow's Near Dark need to be discovered by a wider audience. Forget the Twilight films - give me gritty bloodsucker flicks like John Carpenter's Vampires, Near Dar, From Duck Til Dawn, and 30 Days Of Night.
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  • Lori
    5.0 out of 5 stars Came on time
    Reviewed in the United States on November 23, 2024
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  • Saul
    5.0 out of 5 stars EXTRAORDINARIA PELÍCULA
    Reviewed in Mexico on December 18, 2024
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    Con la película no tengo problema porque la estaba cazando desde hace años y por fin pude comprarla.
    El problema es que vino con el disco suelto y se rayó un poco por una falta de cuidado al empacarla para el envio
    Solo pediría un poco mas de cuidado para los envios
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  • Justin Pine
    5.0 out of 5 stars Not only ugly, he smells bad.
    Reviewed in Canada on December 8, 2024
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    Ah, the late 90's early aughts...a time before Twilight, when the vampire movies were gritty, and bloody as hell. I remember renting this movie back in the day, and loving every minute of it. Watching this movie on blu-ray years later, I still enjoy it as much today.

    If you're a fan of the bloodier/gorier vampire movies, or even a fan of James Woods. I highly recommend this movie

    Amazing audio and video quality, but that's not surprising coming from Shout!
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  • petra adrian
    5.0 out of 5 stars Vampire
    Reviewed in Germany on October 31, 2024
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    ich habe mir die DVD gekauft, da ich in dem Film im Kino war und er mir gut gefallen hat. Zuerst hatte ich ihn als Video Kassette .Die Video Player
    gibt es nicht mehr .Natürlich die Version ab 18 Jahre.
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  • Jay Marciano
    5.0 out of 5 stars Vampiros de John Carpenter
    Reviewed in Spain on July 10, 2024
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    Edición en ingles, solamente tiene ese idioma y los subtítulos también están solo en inglés.
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  • mario porcaro
    5.0 out of 5 stars Vampires!!
    Reviewed in Italy on February 21, 2019
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    Un altro grande film del maestro Carpenter.
    Ottimo blu ray sia audio che video.
    Ottimi effetti speciali, e bella storia.
    Qui siamo davanti ad un buon "horror" rispetto agli altri suoi film più " psicologici e di suspence" che siamo abituati a vedere dal maestro.
    Compratelo vi divertirete
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