John Carpenter
Known for: Directing
Born: January 16, 1948
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…
Known for
Body Bags
1993
Carpenter on Quatermass
2014
Tales from the Script
2009
The Making of 'They Live'
1988
The Thing: Terror Takes Shape
1998
Charlie Brown: Blockhead's Revenge
2011
Christine: Fast and Furious
2004
It Takes a Village: The Making of Village of the Damned
2016
The Birds: Hitchcock's Monster Movie
2012
Red Desert Nights: Making Ghosts of Mars
2001
Big John
2006
The Thing Expanded
2026
Horror Cafe
1990
John Carpenter: Live Retrospective
2018
Hollywood's Greatest Villains
2005
John Carpenter: Live At Primavera Sound 2016
2016
Fear on Film: Inside 'The Fog'
1980
1982: Hollywood Summer
2019
The Rise of the Synths
2019
AGFA Mystery Mixtape #4: Follow Your Own Star
2020
Snake Plissken: Man of Honor
2005
Bringing A Legend To Life
1979
Full Moon Rising: The Charles Band Story
Return to 'Escape from New York'
2003
In Search of Darkness: 1995-1999
2025
John Carpenter: Live From Los Angeles - Halloween Night
2025
Scoring "Resident Evil"
2002
Lovecraft: Fear of the Unknown
2008
John Carpenter: The Man and His Movies
2004
Let There Be Light: The Odyssey of Dark Star
2010
Do You Remember Laurie Zimmer?
2003
Halloween: Unmasked
1999
Monsterland
2009
Stephen King's World of Horror
1986
Christine: Ignition
2004
Christine: Finish Line
2004
The Debra Hill Story
The American Nightmare
2000
Monstres, l'ennemi de l'intérieur
2017
Henchman: The Al Leong Story
2018
Take One: Fear on Film
1982
Halloween: 25 Years of Terror
2006
The Wages of Sin
2003
The Making of 'The Thing'
1982
The Future of Fear
2011
Scary Girl
2011
Carpenter
2026
Unmasking the Horror
1998
Going to Pieces: The Rise and Fall of the Slasher Film
2006
An Opera of Violence
2003
Halloween: A Cut Above the Rest
2003
Commemoration: Howard Hawks' 'Rio Bravo'
2007
Dario Argento: An Eye for Horror
2001
The Puppet Man
2016
Hammer: Heroes, Legends and Monsters
2024
Mario Bava: Maestro of the Macabre
2000
Masters of Horror
2002
Tales from the Mist: Inside 'The Fog'
2002
Something to Do with Death
2003
Scream and Scream Again: A History of the Slasher Film
2000
The Perfect Scary Movie
2005
Nightmares in Red, White and Blue
2009
Fantastic Flesh: The Art of Make-Up EFX
2008
Nightmare Factory
2011
Fasten Your Seatbelt: The Thrilling Art of Alfred Hitchcock
2009
Halloween in Hollywood
2022
The Master's Touch: Hitchcock's Signature Style
2009
Hidden Values: The Movies of the Fifties
2001
Guns for Hire: The Making of 'The Magnificent Seven'
2000
In Search of Darkness: 1990-1994
2024
In Search of Darkness: Part III
2022
Why Horror?
2014
Bernard Herrmann: Hitchcock's Maestro
2008
After Sunset: The Life & Times of the Drive-In Theater
1995
Hollywood's Creepiest Creatures
2004
In Search of Darkness
2019
Masters of Illusion: The Wizards of Special Effects
1994
The History of Metal and Horror
2021
In the Master's Shadow: Hitchcock's Legacy
2008
In Search of Tomorrow
2022
Amazing! Exploring the Far Reaches of Forbidden Planet
2006
Scoring 'Ghosts of Mars'
2001
Fear in the Dark
1991
Dark Glamour: The Blood and Guts of Hammer Productions
2017
In Search of Darkness: Part II
2020
Partners in Crime: Hitchcock's Collaborators
2008
Working with a Master: John Carpenter
2006
The Original Monster Mash
2011
Stephen King's World of Horror
1989
Born to Controversy: The Roddy Piper Story
2006
Jean-Michel Jarre: A Journey into Sound
2015
Dark Star
1974
Robby the Robot: Engineering a Sci-Fi Icon
2006
First Works
1989
Halloween: The Inside Story
2010
Pure Cinema: Through the Eyes of Hitchcock
2008
Bloodsucking Cinema
2007
Studio 666
2022
The Fog
1980
The Thing
1982
Escape from New York
1981
I'm Chevy Chase and You're Not
2025
The Silence of the Hams
1994
Memoirs of an Invisible Man
1992
Halloween
1978
Assault on Precinct 13
1976
The Boy Who Could Fly
1986
Starman
1984
The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault
2020
Big Trouble in Little China
1986
They Live
1988
Village of the Damned
1995
The Director's Chair
2014
The Rifleman
1958
Through the Night with...
2002
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
A History of Horror
2010
100 Scariest Movie Moments
2004
Amityville: An Origin Story
2023
The Movies That Made Us
2019
Charles Band’s Full Moon Freakshow
2022
John Mulaney Presents: Everybody's in L.A.
2024
The Real History of Science Fiction
2014
Track Stories
2015
100 Years of Horror
1996
Crossbow
1987