Tag: John Carpenter

Prince Of Darkness Script

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Year:1987
Director:John Carpenter
Written by:John Carpenter (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:A research team finds a mysterious cylinder in a deserted church. If opened, it could mean the end of the world.
Prince Of Darkness Script Resources:

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They Live Script

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Year:1988
Director:John Carpenter
Written by:Ray Nelson (Novel), John Carpenter (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:Nada, a wanderer without meaning in his life, discovers a pair of sunglasses capable of showing the world the way it truly is. As he walks the streets of Los Angeles, Nada notices that both the media and the government are comprised of subliminal messages meant to keep the population subdued, and that most of the social elite are skull-faced aliens bent on world domination. With this shocking discovery, Nada fights to free humanity from the mind-controlling aliens.
They Live Script Resources:

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Memoirs Of An Invisible Man Script

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Year:1992
Director:John Carpenter
Written by:H.F. Saint (Novel), Robert Collector (Screenplay), Dana Olsen (Screenplay), William Goldman (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:After a freak accident, an invisible yuppie runs for his life from a treacherous CIA official while trying to cope with his new life.
Memoirs Of An Invisible Man Script Resources:

  • Memoirs Of An Invisible Man Script PDF at Script Fly ($)
  • Memoirs Of An Invisible Man Script PDF - EARLY 3/4/88 REVISED 1ST at Script City ($)
  • Memoirs Of An Invisible Man Script PDF - 11/2/90 REVISED at Script City ($)
  • Memoirs Of An Invisible Man Transcript at Script-O-Rama

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  • Memoirs Of An Invisible Man ( tt0104850 ) at IMDb
  • Memoirs Of An Invisible Man ( 2687 ) at TheMovieDB.org
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Village Of The Damned Script

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Year:1995
Director:John Carpenter
Written by:David Himmelstein (Screenplay), John Wyndham (Novel)

Script Synopsis:An American village is visited by some unknown life form which leaves the women of the village pregnant. Nine months later, the babies are born, and they all look normal, but it doesn't take the "parents" long to realize that the kids are not human or humane.
Village Of The Damned Script Resources:

  • Village Of The Damned Script PDF - [dec 17, 1959] at Script Fly ($)
  • Village Of The Damned Script PDF - REMAKE at Script Fly ($)
  • Village Of The Damned Script PDF - 12/17/1959 at Script City ($)

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  • Village Of The Damned ( tt0114852 ) at IMDb
  • Village Of The Damned ( 12122 ) at TheMovieDB.org
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In The Mouth Of Madness Script

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Year:1995
Director:John Carpenter
Written by:Michael De Luca (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:With the disappearance of hack horror writer Sutter Cane, all Hell is breaking loose...literally! Author Cane, it seems, has a knack for description that really brings his evil creepy-crawlies to life. Insurance investigator John Trent is sent to investigate Cane's mysterious vanishing act and ends up in the sleepy little East Coast town of Hobb's End.
In The Mouth Of Madness Script Resources:

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  • In The Mouth Of Madness ( tt0113409 ) at IMDb
  • In The Mouth Of Madness ( 2654 ) at TheMovieDB.org
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Big Trouble in Little China

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Year:1986
Director:John Carpenter
Written by:Gary Goldman (Screenplay), David Z. Weinstein (Screenplay), W.D. Richter (Adaptation)

Script Synopsis:When trucker Jack Burton agreed to take his friend, Wang Chi, to pick up his fiancee at the airport, he never expected to get involved in a supernatural battle between good and evil. Wang's fiancee has emerald green eyes, which make her a perfect target for immortal sorcerer Lo Pan and his three invincible cronies. Lo Pan must marry a girl with green eyes so he can regain his physical form.
Big Trouble in Little China Script Resources:

  • Big Trouble in Little China Script PDF - January 12, 1995 network draft two at The Daily Script
  • Big Trouble in Little China Script PDF at Script Slug
  • Big Trouble in Little China Script at archive.org
  • Big Trouble in Little China Script PDF - 2/27/86 REV. SHOOTING DRAFT at Script City ($)
  • Big Trouble in Little China Script PDF - [Richter][Rev 2-27-1986] at Script Fly ($)

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  • Big Trouble in Little China ( tt0090728 ) at IMDb
  • Big Trouble in Little China ( 6978 ) at TheMovieDB.org
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Starman

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Year:1984
Director:John Carpenter
Written by:Bruce A. Evans (Writer), Raynold Gideon (Writer)

Script Synopsis:When an alien takes the form of a young widow's husband and asks her to drive him from Wisconsin to Arizona, the government tries to stop them.
Starman Script Resources:

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Dark Star

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Year:1974
Director:John Carpenter
Written by:John Carpenter (Screenplay), Dan O'Bannon (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:A low-budget, sci-fi satire that focuses on a group of scientists whose mission is to destroy unstable planets. 20 years into their mission, they have battle their alien mascot, that resembles a beach ball, as well as a "sensitive" and intelligent bombing device that starts to question the meaning of its existence.
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The Thing

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Year:1982
Director:John Carpenter
Written by:Bill Lancaster (Screenplay), John W. Campbell Jr. (Story)

Script Synopsis:In remote Antarctica, a group of American research scientists are disturbed at their base camp by a helicopter shooting at a sled dog. When they take in the dog, it brutally attacks both human beings and canines in the camp and they discover that the beast can assume the shape of its victims. A resourceful helicopter pilot and the camp doctor lead the camp crew in a desperate, gory battle against the vicious creature before it picks them all off, one by one.
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The Fog (2005)

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Year:2005
Director:Rupert Wainwright
Written by:Cooper Layne (Screenplay), John Carpenter (Screenplay), Debra Hill (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:Trapped within an eerie mist, the residents of Antonio Bay have become the unwitting victims of a horrifying vengeance. One hundred years earlier, a ship carrying lepers was purposely lured onto the rocky coastline and sank, drowning all aboard. Now they're back – long-dead mariners who've waited a century for their revenge.
The Fog (2005) Script Resources:

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