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Release Date:
30 October 1998 (USA)
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Tagline:
The final confrontation between good and evil has begun. more
Plot:
A vengeful vampire slayer must retrieve an ancient Catholic relic that, should it be acquired by vampires, will allow them to endure sunlight. full summary | full synopsis
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Vampire Slayer
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3 wins
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4 nominations
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10 of the Best Vampire Movies
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The Thing Returns!
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(From MoviesOnline. 6 February 2010, 8:00 PM, PST)
The Thing Returns!
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| James Woods | ... | Jack Crow | |
| Daniel Baldwin | ... | Anthony Montoya | |
| Sheryl Lee | ... | Katrina | |
| Thomas Ian Griffith | ... | Jan Valek | |
| Maximilian Schell | ... | Cardinal Alba | |
| Tim Guinee | ... | Father Adam Guiteau | |
| Mark Boone Junior | ... | Catlin | |
| Gregory Sierra | ... | Father Giovanni | |
| Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa | ... | David Deyo | |
| Thomas Rosales Jr. | ... | Ortega (as Thomas Rosales) | |
| Henry Kingi | ... | Anthony | |
| David Rowden | ... | Bambi | |
| Clarke Coleman | ... | Davis | |
| Mark Sivertsen | ... | Highway Patrolman | |
| John Furlong | ... | Father Joseph Molina |
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Rated R for strong vampire violence and gore, language and sexuality.
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Runtime:
108 min | Germany:104 min (cut version) | Argentina:106 min
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2.35 : 1 more
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Netherlands:16 |
Iceland:16 |
Finland:K-16 (cut) (VHS) (1999) |
Finland:K-18 (uncut) (DVD) (2001) |
Philippines:R-18 |
Argentina:16 |
Australia:MA |
France:-12 |
Germany:18 |
Norway:18 |
Portugal:M/16 |
Singapore:R21 |
South Korea:18 |
Spain:18 |
Sweden:15 |
UK:18 |
USA:R |
Germany:BPjM Restricted
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The film that convinced John Carpenter to stay in directing. He had been thinking about quitting filmmaking because in his own words, "it had stopped being fun."
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Crew or equipment visible: During the escape from the Sun God Motel, the chroma-key green screen can be seen outside Jack Crow's side of the pick-up truck before they wreck into the abandoned trailer.
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Featured in Mystic River (2003)
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Padre's Wood
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I'm a big fan of John Carpenter. But in his latest films, I've noticed somewhat of a clumsy way he directs his films. It's almost as if the films were rushed and some scenes or even shots, just weren't filmed. He fades between all of his scenes... Sometimes, leaving us wanting more, but he just fades to the end of it. Sometimes, the scenes he uses could have been completly cut out and not used with the fade-technique whatsoever.
Anyway, I just had to get that off my mind. Off to the plot:
Jack Crow is a Master Slayer, meaning that he kills vampire for the catholic church, and has been doing that for his entire life. After he cleans out a nest of Vampires in New Mexico, his team gets ambushed my a powerful vampire named Valek. Valek kills the entire team of slayers, except for Jack and his friend Montoya. They also manage to bring a hooker along with them, who got bitten by the vampire. Using the hookers telepathic link with her master, the two try to hunt down Valek and find out what he's up to.
This film is gory. Really gory. Most likely John Carpenters goriest film to date, counting The Thing. Some might think that gore is an unnecessary way of filming, but in this film: Gore is not used to "impress" or "Show off". It's used as a background thing. I didn't feel that it was a way of using the gore to create "terror". And if you happen to like gore, you'll find one redeeming factor in this film.
The acting is good. James Woods is really funny as Jack Crow at times, altough Daniel Baldwin isn't really "great", nor is Tim Guinee. But the acting holds up. There's not much else to say other than that James Woods is funny... at times.
The action in this film is quite abundant, yet it's not that great. It can be enjoyable but at the same time the action is very repetive. That doesn't bode very well. Another thing abut this film is that it's too damn long for an action/horror film. Its almost 2 hours long. They should have made it 90 minutes instead, as that would be more fitting of a movie of this "type".
Well. The film is boring sometimes, yet it has some redeeming factors. All in all I give it a six. Nothing great, but if you're a John Carpenter fan you'll like it. And you might want to see how his style has changed. Dramaticly.