John Carpenter
Biography
An American film director, screenwriter, producer, editor, composer, and occasional actor. Although Carpenter has worked in numerous film genres in his four-decade career, his name is most commonly associated with horror and science fiction. Most films in Carpenter's career were initially commercial and critical failures, with the notable exceptions of Halloween (1978), The Fog (1980), Escape from New York (1981), and Starman (1984). However, many of Carpenter's films from the 1970s and the 1...
Also Known As
Martin Quatermass, Frank Armitage, John T. Chance, Rip Haight, John Howard Carpenter
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John Carpenter's Movies
The Thing
25 Jun 1982
Halloween
24 Oct 1978
Escape from New York
23 May 1981
They Live
04 Nov 1988
Big Trouble in Little China
30 May 1986
The Fog
01 Feb 1980
Assault on Precinct 13
08 Oct 1976
Starman
13 Dec 1984
Village of the Damned
28 Apr 1995
Memoirs of an Invisible Man
28 Feb 1992
Dark Star
30 Mar 1974
Body Bags
08 Aug 1993
Studio 666
24 Feb 2022
The Silence of the Hams
11 Mar 1994
The Boy Who Could Fly
15 Aug 1986
In Search of Darkness
01 May 2019
Going to Pieces: The Rise and Fall of the Slasher Film
13 Oct 2006
Nightmares in Red, White and Blue
06 Aug 2009
Lovecraft: Fear of the Unknown
24 Jul 2008
Halloween: 25 Years of Terror
26 Jul 2006
John Carpenter's TV Shows
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
08 Sept 2015
The Movies That Made Us
29 Nov 2019
The Rifleman
30 Sept 1958
Amityville: An Origin Story
23 Apr 2023
A History of Horror
11 Oct 2010
The Real History of Science Fiction
19 Apr 2014
100 Scariest Movie Moments
27 Oct 2004
John Mulaney Presents: Everybody's in L.A.
03 May 2024
Crossbow
30 Aug 1987
The Director's Chair
10 May 2014
Charles Band’s Full Moon Freakshow
24 May 2022
100 Years of Horror
12 Dec 1996
Through the Night with...
10 May 2002
Track Stories
15 May 2015