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• Halloween

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  "On Halloween night in 1963, six-year-old Michael Myers brutally murdered his seventeen-year-old sister and was locked away for fifteen years. In 1978 he escapes and returns to his quiet hometown on Halloween night to look for his next victims."

• Halloween II

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  "Picking up exactly where its predecessor left off, follows 'boogeyman' Michael Myers as he stalks the deserted halls of the hospital where his intended victim lays waiting. Meanwhile, his doctor desperately continues to hunt him down."

• Assault on Precinct 13

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  "A police station under siege from a vicious street gang becomes a cataclysmic battleground where only the strongest survive. Inspired by Howard Hawks' immortal Western, Rio Bravo."

• The Fog

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  "A Northern California fishing town, built 100 years ago over an old leper colony, is the target for revenge by a killer fog containing zombie-like ghosts seeking revenge for their deaths."

• Escape From New York

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  "In a world ravaged by crime, the entire island of Manhattan has been converted into a prison which houses the world's most brutal inmates. When the President of the United States crash lands inside, only one man can bring him back."

• The Thing

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  "A team of scientists in the Antarctic discover a creature that has the ability to take the shape of anything it touches. Who, or what, can you trust?"

• Christine

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  "She was born in Detroit on an automobile assembly line. But she is no ordinary automobile. Deep within her chassis lives an unholy presence."

• Big Trouble in Little China

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  "Kurt Russell plays a macho truck driver who agrees to go to the San Francisco airport and pick up his friend's fiancée. Suddenly, a gang of Chinatown toughs kidnap the girl right before Russell's eyes."

• Prince of Darkness

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  "A group of graduate students and scientists uncover an ancient canister in an abandoned church, but when they open the container, they inadvertently unleash a strange liquid and an evil force on all humanity."

• They Live

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  "One man discovers that aliens are masquerading as humans while they lull the public into submission through subliminal advertising messages. Only specially made sunglasses make the deadly truth visible."

• Anthology

  (movie Themes 1974-1998)

  Carpenter, John, 1948-

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  "The minimal, synthesizer-driven themes to films like Halloween, Escape From New York, and Assault on Precinct 13 are as indelible as their images, and timelessness. Anthology: Movie Themes 1974-1998 collects 13 classic themes from Carpenter’s…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Lost Themes

  Carpenter, John, 1948-

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  "Though his filmmaking career slowed in the 2000s and 2010s, John Carpenter's influence as a composer only grew. Despite that title, these songs aren't attached to any films; instead, they offer a multiplex worth of possibilities for listeners to…Read moreRead more of this annotation