John Carpenter

SOUNDTRACK, WRITER, COMPOSER

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John Howard Carpenter was born in Carthage, New York, to mother Milton Jean (Carter) and father Howard Ralph Carpenter. His family moved to Bowling Green, Kentucky, where his father, a professor, was head of the music department at Western Kentucky University. He attended Western Kentucky University and then USC film school in Los Angeles. He began making short films in 1962, and won an Academy Award for Best Live-Action Short Subject in 1970, for The Resurrection of Broncho Billy (1970), which he made while at USC. Carpenter formed a band in the mid-1970s called The Coupe de Villes, which included future directors Tommy Lee Wallace and Nick Castle. Since the 1970s, he has had numerous roles in the film industry including writer, actor, composer, producer, and director. After directing Sötét csillag (1974), he has helmed both classic horror films like Halloween - A rémület éjszakája (1978), A köd (1980), and A dolog (1982), and noted sci-fi tales like Menekülés New Yorkból (1981) and Csillagember (1984). - IMDb Mini Biography By: Melissa Portell and Rona Menashe

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Streaming Availability

Amazon Video has the most number of John Carpenter’s flixes, followed by Google Play Movies compared to other streaming platforms. See the full graph below.

Releases by Year

John Carpenter on average has worked on 2 movies per year from 1974 to 2021. See the full graphs of the number of John Carpenter movies released per year from 2008 till 2021.

Top Genres

John Carpenter works mostly in Horror Genre followed by Documentary Genre flixes. 30% of John Carpenter movies are Horror Genre movies. See Top Genres that John Carpenter worked on in the graph below.

Average IMDB Score

On average the IMDB score of the movies that John Carpenter has worked on is 6.6.

6.6 / 10

John Carpenter's Movies and Tv Series available to Stream now ..

Horror,Mystery,Sci-Fi
The Thing (1982)

A research team in Antarctica is hunted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of its victims.

8.2/10109 min

Available in 10 platform(s).

Documentary,Sci-Fi
In Search of Tomorrow (2022)

A nostalgic journey through '80s Sc-Fi films, exploring their impact and relevance today, told by the artists who made them and by those who were inspired to turn their visions into reality.

8.1/10305 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

Horror,Thriller
Halloween (1978)

Fifteen years after murdering his sister on Halloween night 1963, Michael Myers escapes from a mental hospital and returns to the small town of Haddonfield, Illinois to kill again.

7.7/1091 min

Available in 13 platform(s).

Documentary
Tales from the Crypt: From Comic Books to Television (2004)

Tells the story of EC Comics, the controversy that led to the end of mainstream horror comics, and the HBO anthology series "Tales from the Crypt".

7.4/1056 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

Action,Adventure,Crime
Assault on Precinct 13 (1976)

An unlikely partnership between a Highway Patrol Officer, two criminals and a station secretary is formed to defend a defunct Los Angeles precinct office against a siege by a bloodthirsty street gang.

7.3/1091 min

Available in 7 platform(s).

Documentary,Horror
Going to Pieces: The Rise and Fall of the Slasher Film (2006)

A documentary on the history of the slasher film.

7.2/1088 min

Available in 4 platform(s).

Action,Horror,Sci-Fi
They Live (1988)

A drifter discovers a pair of sunglasses that allow him to wake up to the fact that aliens have taken over the Earth.

7.2/1094 min

Available in 9 platform(s).

Action,Adventure,Comedy
Big Trouble in Little China (1986)

A rough-and-tumble trucker helps rescue his friend's fiancée from an ancient sorcerer in a supernatural battle beneath Chinatown.

7.2/1099 min

Available in 11 platform(s).