John Carpenter's Cigarette Burns

Name: John Carpenter's Cigarette Burns
Genre: Horror
Released: 2005-12-16
Duration: 59 min
Rating: 7.6
Cast: Norman Reedus, Colin Foo, Udo Kier

Episode aired Dec 16, 2005
TV-MATV-MA
59m

S1.E8

With a torrid past that haunts him, a movie theatre owner is hired to search for the only existing print of a film so notorious that its single screening caused the viewers to become homicid... Read allWith a torrid past that haunts him, a movie theatre owner is hired to search for the only existing print of a film so notorious that its single screening caused the viewers to become homicidally insane.With a torrid past that haunts him, a movie theatre owner is hired to search for the only existing print of a film so notorious that its single screening caused the viewers to become homicidally insane.

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Christopher Redman in Masters of Horror (2005)

Brahm Taylor in Masters of Horror (2005)

Christopher Redman and Brahm Taylor in Masters of Horror (2005)

Udo Kier and Norman Reedus in Masters of Horror (2005)

Norman Reedus in Masters of Horror (2005)

The bankrupted owner of the movie theater 'Vogue', Kirby Sweetman, is hired by the eccentric private collector Mr. Bellinger to search and find the only existing print of the legendary horror film "La Fin Absolue du Monde" by Hans Backovic. This lost film is considered magic and cursed, and has been presented only once to an audience at the Sitges Festival, driving the people insane and causing bloodshed in the theater. The director, the crew and everybody involved in its production seemingly have died since. Kirby owes 200.000 dollars to his father-in-law, who blames Kirby for the death of his daughter Annie, and accepts the assignment to pay his debt. Bellinger shows him a souvenir from the film in his basement, a chained angel that had his wings torn off in the movie. Kirby travels to France to meet a contact and has glimpses of his beloved Annie, initiating his journey to hell. —Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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Trivia
Cody Carpenter's first time as a composer.

Goofs
When Kirby is confronted by Walter about the money he owes, Walter tells Kirby he's got one week to come up with it. Kirby towards the end of the movie gets the money and finds the theater chained up. When on the phone with one of the employees from the theater he says that he was given *two* weeks to get the money.

Quotes
Fung: I know what you want, you want to see the movie!

Connections
Referenced in Post Mortem with Mick Garris: John Carpenter (2011)

Soundtracks
Le Fin De Mond Theme
Written by John Roome
Courtesy of Mekong Records

Top review

A Lackluster waste of time....

...thank goodness the time wasted is not to long maybe an hour. This work is another example of old ideas rehashed yet again, it's nothing new.

This plot has been done before and to greater effect. It's like the writers didn't want to take the time to come up with anything original so they combined three films and made this one from those ideas: 'Popcorn' (A grade-B horror film from the early 90s), 'The Ninth Gate' (watch that instead of this garbage), and Carpenter's own 'In the 'Mouth of Madness' (also much better than this).

Even the so called "original music" by Cody Carpenter (John's Son) is a rip off of the music his father wrote for 'Halloween'. Listen and you'll know right away what I mean.

Do yourself a favor and don't waste your time on this piece of garbage.

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