John Carpenter

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

Dir. John Carpenter · With Kurt Russell, Wilford Brimley, T.K. Carter

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.

Dir. John Carpenter · With Donald Pleasence, Jamie Lee Curtis, Nancy Kyes

An insurance investigator visits a small town while looking into the strange disappearance of a popular horror novelist. He soon finds that the impact of the author’s books is far more than inspirational.

Dir. John Carpenter · With Sam Neill, Julie Carmen, Jürgen Prochnow

A lone drifter stumbles upon a unique pair of sunglasses that reveal aliens are systematically gaining control of the Earth by masquerading as humans and lulling the public into submission.

Dir. John Carpenter · With Roddy Piper, Keith David, Meg Foster

A highway patrol officer, two criminals, and a station secretary form an unlikely alliance to defend a defunct Los Angeles precinct against a siege by a bloodthirsty street gang.

Dir. John Carpenter · With Austin Stoker, Darwin Joston, Laurie Zimmer

Truck driver Jack Burton gets embroiled in a supernatural battle when his best friend Wang Chi's green-eyed fiancée is kidnapped by henchmen of the sorcerer Lo Pan, who must marry a girl with green eyes in order to return to the human realm.

Dir. John Carpenter · With Kurt Russell, Kim Cattrall, Dennis Dun

Nerdy high schooler Arnie Cunningham falls for Christine, a rusty 1958 Plymouth Fury, and becomes obsessed with restoring the classic automobile to her former glory. As the car changes, so does Arnie, whose newfound confidence turns to arrogance behind the wheel of his exotic beauty. Arnie's girlfriend Leigh and best friend Dennis reach out to him, only to be met by a Fury like no other.

Dir. John Carpenter · With Keith Gordon, John Stockwell, Alexandra Paul

With a torrid past that haunts him, a movie theatre owner is hired to search for the only existing print of a film so notorious that its single screening caused the viewers to become homicidally insane.

Dir. John Carpenter · With Norman Reedus, Udo Kier, Christopher Redman

In a world ravaged by crime, the entire island of Manhattan has been converted into a walled prison where brutal prisoners roam free. After the US president crash-lands inside, war hero Snake Plissken has 24 hours to bring him back.

Dir. John Carpenter · With Kurt Russell, Lee Van Cleef, Ernest Borgnine

Strange things begin to occur as a tiny California coastal town prepares to commemorate its centenary. Inanimate objects spring eerily to life; Rev. Malone stumbles upon a dark secret about the town's founding; radio announcer Stevie witnesses a mystical fire; and hitchhiker Elizabeth discovers the mutilated corpse of a fisherman. Then a mysterious iridescent fog descends upon the village, and more people start to die.

Dir. John Carpenter · With Adrienne Barbeau, Tom Atkins, Jamie Lee Curtis

A priest discovers an ancient canister containing a strange liquid in an abandoned church. When a group of graduate students and scientists are tasked with studying it, they unknowingly unleash an evil force waiting to destroy all of humanity.

Dir. John Carpenter · With Donald Pleasence, Lisa Blount, Victor Wong

After failing to kill stubborn survivor Laurie and taking a bullet or six from former psychiatrist Dr. Sam Loomis, Michael Myers has followed Laurie to the Haddonfield Memorial Hospital, where she's been admitted for Myers' attempt on her life. The institution proves to be particularly suited to serial killers, however, as Myers cuts, stabs and slashes his way through hospital staff to reach his favorite victim.

Dir. Rick Rosenthal · With Jamie Lee Curtis, Donald Pleasence, Charles Cyphers

When an alien takes the form of a young widow's husband and asks her to drive him from Wisconsin to Arizona, the government tries to stop them.

Dir. John Carpenter · With Jeff Bridges, Karen Allen, Charles Martin Smith

An exploration of '80s horror movies through the perspective of the actors, directors, producers and SFX craftspeople who made them, and their impact on contemporary cinema.

Dir. David A. Weiner · With Tom Atkins, John Bloom, Doug Bradley

A young woman moves to a high-rise apartment building and soon begins to be tormented by an unknown stalker who seems to know her every move.

Dir. John Carpenter · With Lauren Hutton, David Birney, Adrienne Barbeau

A horror anthology containing three stories: a female college student working a graveyard shift is terrorized by a serial killer; a hair transplant goes horribly wrong; and a baseball player loses an eye and gets a new one from a recently executed murderer.

Dir. John Carpenter, Tobe Hooper · With John Carpenter, Tom Arnold, Tobe Hooper

This biopic traces Elvis Presley’s life from his impoverished childhood to his meteoric rise to stardom to his triumphant conquering of Las Vegas.

Dir. John Carpenter · With Kurt Russell, Shelley Winters, Bing Russell

The church enlists a team of vampire-hunters to hunt down and destroy a group of vampires searching for an ancient relic that will allow them to exist in sunlight.

Dir. John Carpenter · With James Woods, Daniel Baldwin, Sheryl Lee

An American village is visited by some unknown life form which leaves the women of the village pregnant. Nine months later, the babies are born, and they all look normal, but it doesn't take the "parents" long to realize that the kids are not human or humane.

Dir. John Carpenter · With Christopher Reeve, Kirstie Alley, Linda Kozlowski

Kristen, a troubled young woman, is captured by the police after burning down a farmhouse and is locked in the North Bend Psychiatric Hospital. Soon, she begins to suspect that the place has a dark secret at its core and she's determined to find out what it is.

Dir. John Carpenter · With Amber Heard, Mamie Gummer, Danielle Panabaker

After a freak accident, an invisible yuppie runs for his life from a treacherous CIA official while trying to cope with his new life.

Dir. John Carpenter · With Chevy Chase, Daryl Hannah, Sam Neill

A group of scientists are sent on a mission to destroy unstable planets. Twenty years into their mission, they have to battle their alien mascot as well as a "sensitive" and intelligent bombing device that starts to question the meaning of its existence.

Dir. John Carpenter · With Brian Narelle, Cal Kuniholm, Dan O'Bannon

Into the 9.6-quaked Los Angeles of 2013 comes Snake Plissken. His job: wade through L.A.'s ruined landmarks to retrieve a doomsday device.

Dir. John Carpenter · With Kurt Russell, Stacy Keach, Steve Buscemi

A famous fashion photographer develops a disturbing ability to see through the eyes of a serial killer.

Dir. Irvin Kershner · With Faye Dunaway, Tommy Lee Jones, Brad Dourif

An FBI free-lancer stashes a stolen Las Vegas-crime tape in a high-tech car stolen by someone else.

Dir. Harley Cokeliss · With Tommy Lee Jones, Linda Hamilton, Robert Vaughn

In 2176, a Martian police unit is sent to pick up a highly dangerous criminal at a remote mining post. Upon arrival, the cops find the post deserted and something far more dangerous than any criminal — the original inhabitants of Mars, hellbent on getting their planet back.

Dir. John Carpenter · With Natasha Henstridge, Ice Cube, Pam Grier