John Carpenter

Director, Actor

Filmography (All Films)

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Dark Star (1974): Dir. John Carpenter
Feat. Brian Narelle, Dre Pahich, Carl Kuniholm…; Directing debut of Carpenter contains that renegade spirit that is so often lost further down career paths. With ALIEN scribe Dan O'Bannon, he forges…
Assault On Precinct 13 (1976): Dir. John Carpenter
Feat. Austin Stoker, Darwin Joston; A deserted urban jail comes under siege by a ruthless gang in this contemporary reworking of RIO BRAVO. The pin–drop atmosphere is intensified…
Halloween (1978): Dir. John Carpenter
Feat. Jamie Lee Curtis; Landmark horror film is distinguished by direction that gives a constant sense of impending doom, yet provides constant surprises – unlike the…
Elvis (1979): Dir. John Carpenter
Feat. Kurt Russell, Shelley Winters, Bing Russell…; Made just two years after Elvis's death, the king of rock 'n' roll's life is traced from dirt poor beginnings to becoming the most loved entertainer…
Fog, The (1980): Dir. John Carpenter
Feat. Adrienne Barbeau, Hal Holbrook, Janet Leigh…; A curse, put on a Californian coastal town by shipwrecked sailors, is fulfilled when bank of fog, concealing vengeful ghouls, rolls in from the sea.…
Escape from New York (1981): Dir. John Carpenter
Feat. Kurt Russell, Lee Van Cleef, Ernest Borgnine…; 1997 New York is a huge maximum–security prison where the President's plane just happens to crash! Futuristic actioner notable for its sardonic…
Thing, The (1982): Dir. John Carpenter
Feat. Kurt Russell, Wilford Brimley, Richard Dysart…; Kurt Russell headlines this remake of the 1951 film about an Antarctic outpost terrorized by an alien organism. Dir. John Carpenter cranks up the…
Christine (1983): Dir. John Carpenter
Feat. Keith Gordon, John Stockwell, Alexandra Paul; A persecuted teen finds unlikely kinship in a girl with a diff – a demonically–charged 1958 Plymouth that indulges in dispatching…
Starman (1984): Dir. John Carpenter
Feat. Jeff Bridges, Karen Allen, Charles Martin Smith…; Jeff Bridges plays an alien trying to recover his spaceship on Earth with the help of young widow Karen Allen. Entertaining fantasy–drama.
Big Trouble in Little China (1986): Dir. John Carpenter
Feat. Kurt Russell; High–tech, tongue–in–cheek adventure in which Kurt Russell kicks butt in Chinatown.
Prince of Darkness (1987): Dir. John Carpenter
Feat. Donald Pleasence; Carpenter dreck, where religious sect, led by Donald Pleasence, duels with the devil.
They Live (1988): Dir. John Carpenter
Feat. Keith David, Meg Foster; Earth is invaded by aliens that offer materialism in exchange for human souls. One can only detect their presence through special glasses. Too often…
Memoirs of an Invisible Man (1992): Dir. John Carpenter
Feat. Chevy Chase, Daryl Hannah, Sam Neill…; 'Straight' comic vehicle for Chevy Chase in which he plays a womanising stock–broker blessed/cursed with invisibity. Blessed with some great,…
Body Bags (1993): Dir. John Carpenter, Tobe Hooper
Feat. Sheena Easton; An undead John Carpenter unzips three 'body bags' and recounts events leading up to their grisly fate. Above–average triptych with a…
In the Mouth of Madness (1994): Dir. John Carpenter
Feat. Sam Neill; Sam Neill is uncannily good as an insurance investigator who uncovers a diabolical alternate reality when he is sent to locate a vanished…
Village of the Damned (1995): Dir. John Carpenter
Feat. Christopher Reeve, Kirstie Alley; Schlocky remake of the 60s horror, where women in a smalltown are inseminated by an alien entity. Luckily, the presence of lightweights Christopher…
Escape from L.A. (1996): Dir. John Carpenter
Feat. Kurt Russell; Carpenter's belated follow–up sequel to his cult smash ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK revives Kurt Russell as a straight–faced, world–saving…
Vampires (1998): Dir. John Carpenter
Feat. James Woods, Daniel Baldwin, Maximilian Schell; Continuing to purvey his dubious abilities, dir. John Carpenter (HALLOWEEN) sinks his teeth into another genre staple, with hideous spurts of blood…
American Nightmare, The (2000): Dir. Adam Simon
Feat. Wes Craven, David Cronenberg, John Carpenter…; A searching examination of the American horror films of the late 1960s and 1970s, in which the paranoia of the times was reflected in some intense…
Masters of Horror Vol. 1 (Cigarette Burns, Dreams in the Witch House) (2005): Dir. John Carpenter, Stuart Gordon
Feat. Norman Reedus, Udo Kier; The brainchild of dir. Mick Garris (THE STAND), this anthology produced by the Showtime cable network commissions some of the genre's greatest…
Ward, The (John Carpenter's The Ward) (2010): Dir. John Carpenter
Feat. Amber Heard, Lyndsy Fonseca, Danielle Panabaker…; Chilly 'return–to–form' for dir. Carpenter set inside an asylum where the inmates start to mysteriously disappear.
Real History of Science Fiction, The (TV Series) (2014): Feat. Mark Gatiss, William Shatner, Nichelle Nichols…; The story of one of the liveliest and most stimulating genres in popular culture told through its impact on cinema, television and literature. Each…

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