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
Halloween
⭐ 7.562The Silence of the Hams
⭐ 4.9The Perfect Scary Movie
⭐ 7.5The History of Metal and Horror
⭐ 5Scoring Resident Evil
⭐ 4.375Body Bags
⭐ 6.12Carpenter on Quatermass
⭐ 0In Search of Darkness: Part III
⭐ 7.4Nightmares in Red, White and Blue
⭐ 6.6Tales from the Script
⭐ 6.488Lovecraft: Fear of the Unknown
⭐ 7.224Fantastic Flesh: The Art of Make-Up EFX
⭐ 7The Making of 'They Live'
⭐ 0Assault on Precinct 13
⭐ 7.276John Carpenter: The Man and His Movies
⭐ 5.5Pure Cinema: Through the Eyes of Hitchcock
⭐ 0Going to Pieces: The Rise and Fall of the Slasher Film
⭐ 6.8The Thing: Terror Takes Shape
⭐ 7.4Let There Be Light: The Odyssey of Dark Star
⭐ 4.6The Original Monster Mash
⭐ 0Studio 666
⭐ 5.928Charlie Brown: Blockhead's Revenge
⭐ 6.7An Opera of Violence
⭐ 6Halloween: A Cut Above the Rest
⭐ 8Bloodsucking Cinema
⭐ 5Do You Remember Laurie Zimmer?
⭐ 7Halloween: Unmasked
⭐ 5.6Robby the Robot: Engineering a Sci-Fi Icon
⭐ 7Monsterland
⭐ 6.5Stephen King's World of Horror
⭐ 5.9Christine: Ignition
⭐ 7.6Christine: Fast and Furious
⭐ 7.8Christine: Finish Line
⭐ 7.8Nightmare Factory
⭐ 7.3It Takes a Village: The Making of Village of the Damned
⭐ 0Fasten Your Seatbelt: The Thrilling Art of Alfred Hitchcock
⭐ 0Hollywood Trailblazer: The Debra Hill Story
⭐ 0Commemoration: Howard Hawks' 'Rio Bravo'
⭐ 0Working with a Master: John Carpenter
⭐ 6Why Horror?
⭐ 5.9The Birds: Hitchcock's Monster Movie
⭐ 0Bernard Herrmann: Hitchcock's Maestro
⭐ 0The American Nightmare
⭐ 7Halloween in Hollywood
⭐ 0Dario Argento: An Eye for Horror
⭐ 6.6The Reality Trip
⭐ 0The Boy Who Could Fly
⭐ 6.349Red Desert Nights: Making Ghosts of Mars
⭐ 7Monstres, l'ennemi de l'intérieur
⭐ 0Big John
⭐ 7.8The Puppet Man
⭐ 7Henchman: The Al Leong Story
⭐ 9.5Take One: Fear on Film
⭐ 7Fear in the Dark
⭐ 10After Sunset: The Life & Times of the Drive-In Theater
⭐ 5.2Hammer: Heroes, Legends and Monsters
⭐ 8.5Mario Bava: Maestro of the Macabre
⭐ 5.9Hollywood's Creepiest Creatures
⭐ 10The Master's Touch: Hitchcock's Signature Style
⭐ 6.8The Thing Expanded
⭐ 0Hidden Values: The Movies of the Fifties
⭐ 0Stephen King's World of Horror
⭐ 8In the Master's Shadow: Hitchcock's Legacy
⭐ 7Dark Glamour: The Blood and Guts of Hammer Productions
⭐ 6Guns for Hire: The Making of 'The Magnificent Seven'
⭐ 6.8Horror Cafe
⭐ 8.5Born to Controversy: The Roddy Piper Story
⭐ 7.5First Works
⭐ 0Jean-Michel Jarre: A Journey into Sound
⭐ 8Halloween: 25 Years of Terror
⭐ 6.8John Carpenter: Live Retrospective
⭐ 10Masters of Horror
⭐ 7.7Hollywood's Greatest Villains
⭐ 10The Thing
⭐ 8.069In Search of Darkness
⭐ 7.6Dark Star
⭐ 5.9The Fog
⭐ 6.7Escape from New York
⭐ 7.054Starman
⭐ 6.947Big Trouble in Little China
⭐ 7.213They Live
⭐ 7.298Memoirs of an Invisible Man
⭐ 5.9Village of the Damned
⭐ 6.099John Carpenter: Live At Primavera Sound 2016
⭐ 0Tales from the Mist: Inside 'The Fog'
⭐ 5.8In Search of Tomorrow
⭐ 6.5Fear on Film: Inside 'The Fog'
⭐ 4.81982: Hollywood Summer
⭐ 6The Rise of the Synths
⭐ 7.6The Wages of Sin
⭐ 7.4AGFA Mystery Mixtape #4: Follow Your Own Star
⭐ 8The Making of 'The Thing'
⭐ 7.3In Search of Darkness: Part II
⭐ 7.72Amazing! Exploring the Far Reaches of Forbidden Planet
⭐ 4.5Halloween: The Inside Story
⭐ 7.278Something to Do with Death
⭐ 6Scream and Scream Again: A History of the Slasher Film
⭐ 6Snake Plissken: Man of Honor
⭐ 0Biography: 'Rowdy' Roddy Piper
⭐ 7.7The Future of Fear
⭐ 0Masters of Illusion: The Wizards of Special Effects
⭐ 0In Search of Darkness: 1990-1994
⭐ 7.3Scary Girl
⭐ 0Partners in Crime: Hitchcock's Collaborators
⭐ 0The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault
⭐ 0Bringing A Legend To Life
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