JOHN CARPENTER
Directing
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 1980s have come to be viewed as cult classics, and he has been acknowledged as an influential filmmaker.
Cult classics that Carpenter directed include: Dark Star (1974), Assault on Precinct 13 (1976), The Thing (1982), Christine (1983), Big Trouble in Little China (1986), Prince of Darkness (1987), They Live (1988) and In the Mouth of Madness (1995).
His films are characterized by minimalist lighting and photography, static cameras, use of steadicam, and distinctive synthesized scores.
- Amityville: An Origin Story2023
- In Search of Darkness: Part III2022
- In Search of Tomorrow2022
- Studio 6662022
- The History of Metal and Horror2021
- In Search of Darkness: Part II2020
- 1982: Hollywood Summer2019
- The Rise of the Synths2019
- In Search of Darkness2019
- The Movies That Made Us2019
- John Carpenter: Live Retrospective2018
- Henchman: The Al Leong Story2018
- Dark Glamour: The Blood and Guts of Hammer Productions2017
- It Takes a Village: The Making of Village of the Damned2016
- The Puppet Man2016
- Jean-Michel Jarre: The Rise of Electronic Music2015
- The Late Show with Stephen Colbert2015
- Why Horror?2014
- The Real History of Science Fiction2014
- The Director's Chair2014
- The Birds: Hitchcock's Monster Movie2012
- Charlie Brown: Blockhead's Revenge2011
- Nightmare Factory2011
- The Original Monster Mash2011
- Let There Be Light: The Odyssey of Dark Star2010
- Halloween: The Inside Story2010
- A History of Horror2010
- Tales from the Script2009
- Monsterland2009
- Nightmares in Red, White and Blue2009
- Fasten Your Seatbelt: The Thrilling Art of Alfred Hitchcock2009
- The Master's Touch: Hitchcock's Signature Style2009
- Lovecraft: Fear of the Unknown2008
- Fantastic Flesh: The Art of Make-Up EFX2008
- Bernard Herrmann: Hitchcock's Maestro2008
- In the Master's Shadow: Hitchcock's Legacy2008
- Pure Cinema: Through the Eyes of Hitchcock2008
- Commemoration: Howard Hawks' 'Rio Bravo'2007
- Bloodsucking Cinema2007
- Big John2006
- Halloween: 25 Years of Terror2006
- Going to Pieces: The Rise and Fall of the Slasher Film2006
- Amazing! Exploring the Far Reaches of Forbidden Planet2006
- Working with a Master: John Carpenter2006
- Born to Controversy: The Roddy Piper Story2006
- Robby the Robot: Engineering a Sci-Fi Icon2006
- Hollywood's Greatest Villains2005
- Snake Plissken: Man of Honor2005
- The Perfect Scary Movie2005
- Christine: Fast and Furious2004
- John Carpenter: The Man and His Movies2004
- Christine: Ignition2004
- Christine: Finish Line2004
- Hollywood's Creepiest Creatures2004
- 100 Scariest Movie Moments2004
- Do You Remember Laurie Zimmer?2003
- The Wages of Sin2003
- An Opera of Violence2003
- Something to Do with Death2003
- Halloween: A Cut Above the Rest2003
- Scoring Resident Evil2002
- Masters of Horror2002
- Tales from the Mist: Inside 'The Fog'2002
- Through the Night with...2002
- Red Desert Nights: Making Ghosts of Mars2001
- Dario Argento: An Eye for Horror2001
- Hidden Values: The Movies of the Fifties2001
- The American Nightmare2000
- Mario Bava: Maestro of the Macabre2000
- Scream and Scream Again: A History of the Slasher Film2000
- Guns for Hire: The Making of 'The Magnificent Seven'2000
- Halloween: Unmasked1999
- The Thing: Terror Takes Shape1998
- After Sunset: The Life & Times of the Drive-In Theater1995
- Village of the Damned1995
- The Silence of the Hams1994
- Body Bags1993
- Memoirs of an Invisible Man1992
- Fear in the Dark1991
- First Works1989
- The Making of 'They Live'1988
- They Live1988
- Stephen King's World of Horror1986
- The Boy Who Could Fly1986
- Big Trouble in Little China1986
- Starman1984
- Take One: Fear on Film1982
- The Making of 'The Thing'1982
- The Thing1982
- Escape from New York1981
- Fear on Film: Inside 'The Fog'1980
- The Fog1980
- Halloween1978
- Assault on Precinct 131976
- Dark Star1974
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents1955
- The Reality Trip