b_imdb-97-807596 Feels like The Ninth Gate (1999)---very few original ideas make it to film---another derivative --the lead is lame--I found myself waiting for it to end--

poe426 JOHN CARPENTER'S CIGARETTE BURNS (as it's called) is an interesting mix of a dozen ideas (at least). In the movie LEGION, an angel loses his wings (the hard way). In Carpenter's classic IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS, insurance investigator Sam Neill attempts to track down a mysterious author whose books seem to have altered the reality of his readers; before long, Neill can't tell the Real World from the Fictional. In RINGU (THE RING), the mere viewing of a video tape warps the fine line between Life and Death and soon the distinction becomes no distinction at all. In CIGARETTE BURNS, Norman Reedus is sent to track down a copy of LA FIN ABSOLUE DU MONDE (THE ABSOLUTE END OF THE WORLD), a film so something or other that anyone who sees it goes nuts. En route, he meets an angel whose wings have been clipped and starts to experience some of the symptoms laid out in some of the aforementioned movies. Not Carpenter's best (although as a director he seems incapable of directing BADLY), but certainly the best episode of the MASTERS OF HORROR series.

super marauder I'm a huge John Carpenter fan, and this is the one that got me started on the series long after it left the air. I could go on about him, but when I saw this in the video store for sale used at $3.99 and it was John Carpenter, I had to have for my collection. And I wasn't disappointed.Norman Reedus plays Kirby Sweetman who owns this theater that show old movies, and on the side he tracks down old films for people. You find out that Kirby and his girlfriend borrowed the money from her father to by the theater but they were both heroine addicts. She kills herself and her father won't get out of Kirby's life. Both of them are living with anger and guilt.Bellenger (played marvelously by Udo Kier) hires Kirby to track down this film that if you were to watch it, you go insane. Kirby sees this at first as an opportunity to pay off his girlfriend's father and get him out of his life for good and move on, but the closer he gets to the film the more strange things happen to him.The story reminded a little of 'In the Mouth of Madness', and once working in a movie theater and seeing Timpson working with that splicer it was easy for me to get into the story. Carpenter is at his best here. It's mostly duologue but when it gets moving you really see what this journey is doing to Kirby along the way. Cody Carpenter's score is a chip off the block to his father in a classic Carpenter sort of way. This feels like a John Carpenter movie in every sense. I think that's one reason 'The Ward' missed because it doesn't have that John Carpenter feel. This does!

chucknorrisfacts I just watched John Carpenter's "Cigarette Burns" on Netflix. I'm not really sure where to begin so I guess I'll just start by saying I find it a little difficult to say I liked this movie, but not because I didn't think it was pretty good, but because I think it's just odd to say you "like" something that's this disturbing. I'd feel more comfortable in saying this movie was effective in achieving its goal...to thoroughly weird you out! So, if you're wondering what this movie's about, I'll try to sum it up as best I can without giving too much away: There's an old millionaire, a film buff, who learns of a young man named Kirby, who operates an independent movie theatre and has developed a reputation for being able to track down rare films.The millionaire wants Kirby to find an especially rare film by the name of "La Fin Absolue du Monde," which translates into "The Absolute End of the World".Kirby takes the job because he's in debt, and if he doesn't come up with two hundred thousand dollars in the next week, his theatre will be shut down.Kirby follows a series of clues which eventually lead into him discovering the film...but at what cost? Overall, I'd say it was a pretty good horror flick. It doesn't exactly scream classic Carpenter, probably because he didn't write it, but I think he does a fine job in directing it and I think it was pretty well written. It's a movie that only needs one viewing, though. It doesn't have a whole lot of replay value, in my opinion.In conclusion, I'd say give it a shot if you're looking for a horror movie that's a little different than the norm. It doesn't follow convention quite so much as so many movies of its kind do nowadays.