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The Carpenter

  • 1988
  • R
  • 1h 29min
VALUTAZIONE IMDb
5,0/10
846
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The Carpenter (1988)
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Aggiungi una trama nella tua linguaA mad woman and her cheating husband hire men to fix up their new house. Mysterious carpenter, Ed, becomes her guardian angel, but he is actually an executed killer whose spirit has returned... Leggi tuttoA mad woman and her cheating husband hire men to fix up their new house. Mysterious carpenter, Ed, becomes her guardian angel, but he is actually an executed killer whose spirit has returned to finish the dream house he once started.A mad woman and her cheating husband hire men to fix up their new house. Mysterious carpenter, Ed, becomes her guardian angel, but he is actually an executed killer whose spirit has returned to finish the dream house he once started.

  • Regia
    • David Wellington
  • Sceneggiatura
    • Doug Taylor
  • Star
    • Wings Hauser
    • Lynne Adams
    • Pierre Lenoir
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  • VALUTAZIONE IMDb
    5,0/10
    846
    LA TUA VALUTAZIONE
    • Regia
      • David Wellington
    • Sceneggiatura
      • Doug Taylor
    • Star
      • Wings Hauser
      • Lynne Adams
      • Pierre Lenoir
    • 23Recensioni degli utenti
    • 38Recensioni della critica
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    Wings Hauser
    Wings Hauser
    • Carpenter
    Lynne Adams
    Lynne Adams
    • Alice Jarett
    Pierre Lenoir
    Pierre Lenoir
    • Martin Jarett
    Barbara Jones
    • Rachel
    • (as Barbara Ann Jones)
    Louise-Marie Mennier
    • Laura Bell
    Johnny Cuthbert
    Johnny Cuthbert
    • Roland
    • (as Jon Cuthbert)
    Robert Austern
    • Barns
    Anthony Ulc
    Anthony Ulc
    • Landis
    • (as Tony Ulc)
    Bob Pot
    • Farnsworth
    Richard Jutras
    Richard Jutras
    • Mr. Mort
    Ron Lea
    Ron Lea
    • Sheriff J.J. Johnston
    Beverly Murray
    Beverly Murray
    • Crazy Woman
    Griffith Brewer
    Griffith Brewer
    • Doctor Flanders
    Anne Farquhar
    • Nurse
    David Gow
    • Larry
    Jean-Guy Bouchard
    Jean-Guy Bouchard
    • Worker
    Jim Connolly
    • Worker
    Guy Laprade
    • Worker
    • Regia
      • David Wellington
    • Sceneggiatura
      • Doug Taylor
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    5The_Void

    It's never a good idea to annoy dead carpenters! (or make films about people that do!)

    The Carpenter would not appear to be a very well liked film, and it's really not difficult to see why. It seems that certain occupations lend themselves to horror; while dentistry, for example, has obvious horror themes that can spring from it, all carpentry has is the idea of someone murdering people with his tools, this idea has been used many times before and generally isn't all that interesting anyway. The fact that the plot here focuses on a dead carpenter who has come back for revenge doesn't really help since that idea is also massively overused. The plot is also rather boring in the way it plays out. However, I do have to say, in spite of all that I've already said, that The Carpenter isn't a film without any merits at all. Wings Hauser is good in the title role, and the scenes that see him taking some revenge on various people that he doesn't like are generally quite well done. The way he yacks on about 'the working man' etc can be a little dreary, but the delivery is good and Hauser makes for an effective villain. Overall, however, I have to say that The Carpenter is not a great film and there's not enough about it for me to recommend it.
    4BA_Harrison

    You know the drill.

    Released from hospital after a nervous breakdown, Alice Jarett (Lynne Adams) moves into a country house with her philandering husband Martin (Pierre Lenoir), who has employed a team of workmen to renovate the property. At night, after the workmen have gone home and as Martin sleeps (having taken tranqs), Alice hears noises and investigates, discovering a lone carpenter (played by straight-to-video star Wings Hauser) hard at work. The genial craftsman befriends the flaky housewife, and becomes her guardian angel, using his handy array of power-tools to take care of those who mean to do her harm. It eventually transpires that Alice's new friend is the ghost of Ed, the man who originally built their home, and who was executed in the electric chair after killing those who tried to repossess his property.

    I first saw The Carpenter in the wee hours at an all-night horror festival and struggled to stay focused thanks to the film's rather slow pace. But even with me wide awake this time around, the languorous approach still made this one drag quite a bit. As the carpenter with a screw loose (pun intended), Hauser absolutely nails it (pun also intended), being both charismatic and menacing, and there are a couple of reasonably bloody death scenes, but for much of the time I was bored (bored... board... geddit? OK, I was struggling with that one!).
    3Lukeydude-1

    Several unforgivable disappointments

    Yeah, yeah, I know. Buying "The Carpenter" was all my fault, and I shouldn't have harbored the expectations that I did. I accept that. I'm not trying to blame anyone else for my misguided foul-ups. I do reserve the right, however, to curse the studio and all it represents for the various cinematic disappointments that are simply inexcusable.

    The movie seemed interesting enough to me. A mysterious carpenter continues to appear in the, quote, "delirious dead of night," gruesomely eliminating any man or woman that causes the house owner grief. Yeah, yeah, great stuff.

    The movie delivered, but only on certain levels. Yes, the carpenter showed up. And yes, the night always seemed slightly delirious. And you know what? There were even a number of original, if uninspired, death scenes. Great, great stuff.

    Upon closer inspection, however, several glaring mistakes made themselves all too real.

    Firstly, what's the deal with Wings Hauser? You've got one of the greatest character actors ever to grace the screen, and you waste his talent in such a visually lusterless role? Yeah yeah, I know. Wings Hauser sucks. Character actor? He's hardly an actor. The point I'm trying to make is that he needed to be dressed like a ghoul to make this flick a little more aesthetically appealing.

    Secondly, and perhaps decisively, there's no nudity. I'm sorry, what? That's right, no nudity. There are two or three women in the film, but none strip down like they're supposed to. Several times we're offered some sort of teaser, but they never amount to anything. The very element that could have made this film is completely ignored, and "Carpenter" suffers for it.

    Because of these simple mistakes, "The Carpenter" dawdles more in the twisted-romantic-drama genre and less in ceaseless, mind-numbing, bad horror like it was meant to. Sad. Very sad.

    Ah well. Rent it anyway. It seems that if I can get other people to watch this crap, my life seems less desperate and lonely.
    3Coventry

    I see dead handymen!

    Wouldn't it be so much cooler if John Carpenter had directed this movie? Then the box of the VHS could loudly announce "John Carpenter's … The Carpenter"! And also, it probably would have been a much better film if John directed it… "The Carpenter" is a rather weak and laughable 80's slasher movie that desperately tries to add in some deeper psychological themes, but fails. It centers on a beautiful, thirty-something housewife that just got released from a period in a mental institution because she cut up her husband's business suits for no apparent reason. They move into a new countryside house that still needs a lot of renovation and Alice stays indoors whilst her husband cheats on her with a hot blond chick. Meanwhile Alice falls in love with the reincarnation of carpenter Ed (portrayed by 80's stud Wings Hauser). Ed is an old-fashioned workaholic who died in the electric chair 40 years earlier after he went a little berserk and killed some people that didn't allow him to finish his work. Together, Alice and Ed butcher a couple of lazy handymen and talk about dancing. How adorable! It's a pretty ridiculous film overall, with too much talking and only a couple of demented murder scenes to make up for it. The killings are similar to the ones in the 'video-nasty' cult classic "The Toolbox Murders" (a nail gun, a bench vice…) but not nearly as gross or memorable. I always thought Wings Hauser is a bit of an idiot and didn't really like him in this role, neither. His tedious speeches about how "handy-work is holy" are implausible and not exactly terrifying. The climax is just plain retarded.
    4HumanoidOfFlesh

    Rather dull.

    "The Carpenter" is certainly more intelligent than many horror films out there,but it's also so mediocre.The plot is quite interesting,but the pace is rather slow and the film becomes quickly dull.There is a good deal of splatter and some gruesome killings,but really this one isn't worth your time.4 out of 10-not a classic by any means,just another mediocre Canadian horror.

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      Feature directorial debut for David Wellington.
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      Available in both "R" and unrated versions.
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      Featured in Katarina's Nightmare Theater: The Carpenter (2011)

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    • Data di uscita
      • 27 agosto 1988 (Canada)
    • Paese di origine
      • Canada
    • Lingua
      • Inglese
    • Celebre anche come
      • House of fear
    • Luoghi delle riprese
      • Montréal, Québec, Canada
    • Azienda produttrice
      • Gold-Gems
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    • Tempo di esecuzione
      • 1h 29min(89 min)
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    • Proporzioni
      • 1.85 : 1

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