Country: USA
Year: 1978
Duration: 100'
Leigh Michaels, a young television director, moves to Los Angeles. She soon begins to receive strange letters and phone calls. With the help of a policeman, Hunt, and a colleague, Sophie, the woman begins to investigate and discovers that she is being stalked by a maniac. Sophie is killed and Leigh ends up facing the dangerous criminal alone.
Biography
film director
John Carpenter
(Carthage, New York, 1948) debuted in 1974 with the science fiction film Dark Star and next made three low budget films, Assault on Precint 13 (1976), Halloween (1978) and The Fog (1980), which made him one of the best-known directors of American New Horror. In 1981 he directed Escape from New York and the following year The Thing continuing his study of horror movies and science fiction. He confirms his status among the genre’s best with subsequent works such as Vampires (1987), In the Mouth of Madness (1994), and Ghosts of Mars (2001). Between 2005 and 2006 he directed two episodes of the TV series Masters Of Horror. His last movie is The Ward (2010). In 1999, Torino Film Festival dedicated a complete retrospective to his opus.
FILMOGRAFIA
Dark Star (id., 1974), Assault on Precint 13 (Distretto 13: le brigate della morte, 1976), Halloween (Halloween: la notte delle streghe, 1978), The Fog (Fog, 1980), Escape from New York (1997: fuga da New York, 1981), The Thing (La cosa, 1982), Christine (Christine, la macchina infernale, 1983), Big Trouble in Little China (Grosso guaio a Chinatown, 1986), Prince of Darkness (Il signore del male, 1987), They Live (Essi vivono, 1988), In the Mouth of Madness (Il seme della follia, 1994), Village of Damned (Villaggio dei dannati, 1995), Escape from L.A. (Fuga da Los Angeles, 1996), Vampires (id., 1998), John Carpenter’s Ghost of Mars (Fantasmi da Marte, 2001), Masters of Horror (ep. Cigarette Burns, TV, 2005; ep. Pro-Life, TV, 2006), John Carpenter's The Ward (The Ward - Il reparto, 2010), John Carpenter's Suburban Screams (serie tv, 2023).
Cast
& Credits
Regia, soggetto e sceneggiatura: John Carpenter.
Director of photography: Robert Hauser.
Art director: Phil Barber.
Music: Harry Sukman.
Editor: Jerry Taylor.
Cast and characters: Lauren Hutton (Leigh Michaels), Adrienne Barbeau (Sophie), David Birney (Paul), Charles Cyphers (Hunt), Grainger Hines (Steve), Len Lesser (uomo dello scherzo).
Produttore esecutivo: Richard Kobritz.
Production company: Warner Bros. Television Productions per NBC-TV.
Director of photography: Robert Hauser.
Art director: Phil Barber.
Music: Harry Sukman.
Editor: Jerry Taylor.
Cast and characters: Lauren Hutton (Leigh Michaels), Adrienne Barbeau (Sophie), David Birney (Paul), Charles Cyphers (Hunt), Grainger Hines (Steve), Len Lesser (uomo dello scherzo).
Produttore esecutivo: Richard Kobritz.
Production company: Warner Bros. Television Productions per NBC-TV.