Kurt Russell as a trucker in a Chinatown sorcery war; Carpenter's cult comedy.
Manhattan as a prison and Kurt Russell as Snake Plissken; Carpenter's dystopia of 1997.
An Antarctic base and a shape-shifter; Rob Bottin's effects and the paranoia of the blood test.
Michael Myers, Haddonfield and a piano theme in 5/4; Carpenter made it for $300,000.
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