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Davidl31 — 15 years ago(October 21, 2010 09:19 AM)

Mine is Halloween, but the Thing is a close second actually they're probably tied for me, and they live is up there too!

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I'm a very enthusiastic fan of John Carpenter and his films. Personally, I regard him as one of our very best living filmmakers. For me, I consider "Halloween" to be his finest achievement; frightening, suspenseful, flawlessly paced, beautiful minimalist lighting by Dean Cundey, the personable performances by Curtis, Pleasance, and the supporting cast, and Carpenter's brilliant camerawork and staging. For me, it is perhaps, along with Stanley Kubrick's "The Shining", Brian De Palma's "Dressed To Kill", and Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho", the finest of all modern horror films.
Some runners up would be (in alphabetical order):
"Escape From New York"
"In The Mouth Of Madness"
"They Live"
"The Thing"

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Biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiig TROUBLE In Little Chiiiiiinaaaaaaaa.
Sing it too.

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The Thing. It's such a good film, very re-watchable with an amazing cast, score, and atmosphere.

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The Thing

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1.The Thing - Hands down his greatest movie, IMO of course! Is also my second favorite movie of all tiiiiime.

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  1. The Thing
  2. Halloween
  3. Assault on Precinct 13
  4. Escape From New York
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The Thing for sure.
Escape From New York and They Live round up the top 3.
The slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown

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High five!

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THEY LIVE, mosdef. No other film in modern history contains more macho bravado classic lines like this film. The whole film is like the Bible to me.

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Favorite Carpenter movie for me will always be Christine, everything about the movie rocked, the acting, the script and the soundtrack!

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EFNY
The Thing
The Fog
Halloween
In that order. Like all his earlier films excluding EFLA

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I haven't seen the ward yet because it hasn't been released in America yet.

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The Thing.
Number 1 since 1987-88 I don't think I could change my mind.

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Close call between Halloween and The Thing but I'll give it to Halloween because of the music.

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Halloween is his best, The Fog is quite good, and The Ward seems to be better than films like They Live and Escape from New York

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Big Trouble in Little China. Excellent, hilarious, holds up beautifully!
Cartoons!
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Good man.
Emily? Who's Emily?

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Prince of Darkness for me After all those years, the dream scene in the movie is still one of the most horrifying and impressive things I've seen.

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The Thing

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