John Carpenter
John Carpenter is a director, born 1948.
John Howard Carpenter is an American filmmaker, composer, and actor. Most commonly associated with horror, action, and science fiction films of the 1970s and 1980s, he is generally recognized as a master of the horror genre. At the 2019 Cannes Film Festival, the French Directors' Guild gave him the Golden Coach Award and lauded him as "a creative genius of raw, fantastic, and spectacular emotions". On April 3, 2025, he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Movies (46)
- Halloween (1978)
- Halloween (1978)
- The Thing (1982)
- The Thing (1982)
- They Live (1988)
- Assault on Precinct 13 (1976)
- Assault on Precinct 13 (1976)
- Big Trouble in Little China (1986)
- Escape from New York (1981)
- Escape from New York (1981)
- Christine (1983)
- The Fog (1980)
- The Fog (1980)
- Escape from L.A. (1996)
- In the Mouth of Madness (1995)
- Village of the Damned (1995)
- Vampires (1998)
- Ghosts of Mars (2001)
- Starman (1984)
- Starman (1984)
- The Ward (2010)
- Prince of Darkness (1987)
- Dark Star (1974)
- Dark Star (1974)
- Studio 666 (2022)
- Body Bags (1993)
- Body Bags (1993)
- Memoirs of an Invisible Man (1992)
- Memoirs of an Invisible Man (1992)
- The Silence of the Hams (1994)
TV (2)
John Carpenter on CrossBinge
- Music: Is John Carpenter's Third Act Real?
- For fans of: For fans of John Carpenter: what to watch, read & play next
- Companion guide: Sam Neill: The Reasonable Man in Unreasonable Movies