WATCHcanonHalloween
1978 · USA · 92m
Cost 300,000 dollars, took 70 million, and contains almost no blood at all.
Goreledger 9/10
Director · 7 films
Horror films directed by John Carpenter
7 films directed by John Carpenter are catalogued in the ledger, from 1978 to 1994. Countries of origin: USA and Canada. The most common subgenres here are cosmic horror (4), psychological (3), creature feature (2) and body horror (1). The best-documented entries are Halloween (1978), The Thing (1982) and Christine (1983).
The films
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WATCHcanonThe Fog
1980 · USA · 90m
Carpenter's follow-up to Halloween: a Californian coastal town, a hundredth anniversary, and something owed.
WATCHcanonThe Thing
1982 · USA/Canada · 109m
Flopped, was called empty and disgusting, and is now the most imitated horror film of its decade.
Goreledger 10/10
WATCHcanonChristine
1983 · USA · 110m
Carpenter directing King's killer car in the same year he made almost nothing else work.
WATCHcanonPrince of Darkness
1987 · USA · 102m
The second of Carpenter's Apocalypse Trilogy, and it is quantum physics as a book of the dead.
WATCHcanonThey Live
1988 · USA · 94m
Carpenter's angriest film, disguised as a B-movie, about sunglasses that let you see the ads underneath everything.
WATCHcanonIn the Mouth of Madness
1994 · USA · 95m
The third of Carpenter's Apocalypse Trilogy and the most explicitly Lovecraftian thing he made.