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John Carpenter
John Howard Carpenter is an American filmmaker, composer, and actor. Most commonly associated with horror, action, and science fiction films of the 1970s and 1980s, he is generally recognized as a master of the horror genre. At the 2019 Cannes Film Festival, the French Directors' Guild gave him the Golden Coach Award and lauded him as "a creative genius of raw, fantastic, and spectacular emotions"…
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entertainment · American filmmaker (born 1948) · film director · screenwriter · composer · director · film producer · actor · film score composer · film screenwriter · comics writer · conductor · also John Carpenter, John Chance, John T. Chance, Martin Quatermass, Carpenter
Born 16 January 1948 · Q95008
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2026· 21 entries
“Halloween night. It has never been the theme in a film. My idea was to do an old haunted house film.”
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Yahoo: Charlize Theron, Colman Domingo and John Carpenter Land Top Academy Museum Honors
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Yahoo: John Carpenter, Colman Domingo and Charlize Theron to Be Honored at Academy Museum Gala
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Women's Wear Daily: Charlize Theron, Colman Domingo and John Carpenter to Be Honored at 2026 Academy Museum Gala
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Published video “CATHEDRAL the new album by @johncarpenter1 , Cody Carpenter , and @danieldavies is out now!”.
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Released album “Cathedral”.
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Published video ““Revenge” the third single off of CATHEDRAL is out now! Full album out this Friday, August 7th!”.
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Published video “John Carpenter - Revenge (Official Visualizer)”.
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Published video “The final sneak peek is coming this Tuesday, August 4th. Are you ready?”.
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The Guardian: ‘Everything I know about evil I learned in that small town’: John Carpenter on terrifying the world with Halloween, The Thing and The Fog
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Published video “Today, @johncarpenter1 shares the second single from new album and graphic novel, Cathedral!”.
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Published video “John Carpenter - The Ferryman (Official Visualizer)”.
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Published video “More will be revealed, June 30th. @sacredbonesrecords”.
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Published video “Today, you can experience the first step into CATHEDRAL through “Lord of the Underground,” out now!”.
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Published video “John Carpenter - Lord of the Underground (Official Visualizer)”.
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Published video “CATHEDRAL opens May 19. Pray you get out alive. @sacredbonesrecords”.
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Published video “John Carpenter's Tales of Science Fiction: PAUSE Trade Paperback - Official Trailer”.
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On PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and Windows via Steam and the Epic Games Store
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Published video “John Carpenter's Tales for a HalloweeNight Vol. 11 trailer”.
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Published video “Storm King Comics Dark & Twisted: DEAD FLOWERS - Official Trailer”.
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2025· 6 entries
Released album “Halloween: The Complete Expanded Collection”.
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Published video “The Amusement Park - Official Trailer”.
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Received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
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Carpenter received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
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Published video “John Carpenter's Tales of Science Fiction: PAUSE - issue 1”.
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Published video “John Carpenter Presents Storm Kids: THE GHOST WHISKERERS official trailer”.
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2024· 7 entries
Published video “Christmas In Hell”.
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Carpenter received a Career Achievement Award from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association
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Released ep “Die Klapperschlange (Escape From New York)”.
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Published video “John Carpenter's Tales for a HalloweeNight Vol. 10 trailer”.
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Published video “John Carpenter's Tales for a HalloweeNight - Brooklyn Stories official trailer”.
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Published video “John Carpenter's Night Terrors: BLOOD OF THE TAKEN - Official Trailer”.
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Released album “Lost Themes IV: Noir”.
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2023· 1 entry
Released album “Anthology II: Movie Themes 1976-1988”.
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2022· 2 entries
Released album “Halloween Ends: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack”.
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Released album “Firestarter: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack”.
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2021· 2 entries
Released album “Halloween Kills: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack”.
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Released album “Lost Themes III: Alive After Death”.
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2020· 2 entries
Titled Weeping Ghost, followed in December 2020 by another new track from the forthcoming album, titled The Dead Walk
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Released album “The Thing: Lost Cues”.
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2018· 2 entries
Released album “Live Retrospective”.
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Released album “Halloween: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack”.
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2017· 1 entry
Released album “Anthology: Movie Themes 1974–1998”.
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2016· 4 entries
Released ep “Classic Themes Redux EP”.
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Released album “Lost Themes II”.
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Released album “Dark Star (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)”.
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“s work as a music teacher that first sparked an interest in him to make music. This interest was to play a major role in his later career: he composed the music to most of his films, and the soundtrack to many of those became”
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2015· 5 entries
All Tomorrow's Parties announced that Carpenter will be performing old and new compositions in London and Manchester, England
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Released album “Lost Themes Remixed”.
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Released album “HalloweeN Returns (Music Inspired by the Film)”.
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The indie label Sacred Bones Records released his album Lost Themes
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Released album “Lost Themes”.
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2011· 1 entry
And proved interesting because it revealed elements that would appear in his later film, Halloween (1978)
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2010· 2 entries
Carpenter received the Lifetime Award from the Freak Show Horror Film Festival
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Before a limited release in the United States in July 2011
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2008· 3 entries
Released ep “Christine”.
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Awarded Time Machine Award (2008).
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Empire magazine selected it as one of The 500 Greatest Movies of All Time, at number 289, calling it "a peerless masterpiece of relentless suspense, retina-wrecking visual excess and outright, nihilistic terror"
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2007· 1 entry
Awarded Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement (2007).
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2005· 1 entry
That Carpenter had asked him for his own ideas for a sequel to his 1974 film Black Christmas (written by Roy Moore) that featured an unseen and motiveless killer murdering students in a university sorority house
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2003· 2 entries
Released album “The Director’s Cut: John Carpenter”.
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Released album “Assault on Precinct 13”.
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2002· 1 entry
Released album “The Essential John Carpenter Film Music Collection”.
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2001· 2 entries
Released album “Ghosts of Mars”.
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His film Ghosts of Mars was released but was not successful
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1998· 3 entries
Released album “Sentinel Returns”.
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Carpenter composed the soundtrack (titled "Earth/Air") for the video game Sentinel Returns, published for PC and PlayStation
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Released album “Vampires”.
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1996· 1 entry
Released album “Escape From L.A.”.
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1995· 2 entries
Released album “Village of the Damned”.
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Released album “In the Mouth of Madness”.
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1993· 1 entry
Released album “Body Bags”.
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1992· 6 entries
Called The Thing "a black, memorable film [that] may yet be seen as a classic"
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Released album “Halloween: Music From the Films of John Carpenter”.
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Released album “Greatest Hits, Volume II”.
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Released album “Greatest Hits”.
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Released album “Dark Star”.
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Released album “Halloween: The Best of John Carpenter”.
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1990· 1 entry
Released album “Christine”.
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1988· 1 entry
Released album “They Live”.
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1987· 1 entry
Released album “Prince of Darkness”.
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1986· 2 entries
Released album “Big Trouble in Little China”.
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Tommy Lee Wallace performed the title song of Carpenter's film Big Trouble in Little China as part of the band The Coup de Villes, alongside Carpenter and another director friend, Nick Castle
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1984· 2 entries
They have one son, Cody Carpenter (born May 7, 1984), who became a musician and composer.
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Released album “The Fog”.
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1982· 2 entries
As The Thing), and high-budget sci-fi such as Godzilla and Forbidden Planet
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Released album “Halloween III: Season of the Witch: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack”.
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1981· 2 entries
Released album “John Carpenter’s Escape From New York”.
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Released album “Halloween II”.
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1979· 2 entries
Released album “Halloween”.
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Carpenter began what was to be the first of several collaborations with actor Kurt Russell when he directed the television film Elvis
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1978· 1 entry
“s Watching Me!. This television film is the tale of a single, working woman who, soon after arriving in L.A., discovers that she is being stalked. Eyes of Laura Mars, a 1978 thriller featuring Faye Dunaway and Tommy Lee Jones and directed by Irvin Kershner, was adapted (in collaboration with David Zelag Goodman) from a spec script titled Eyes, written by Carpenter, and would become Carpenter”
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1962· 1 entry
Made a few major short films: Godzilla vs
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1953· 1 entry
After his father accepted a job at Western Kentucky University, the family relocated to Bowling Green, Kentucky, which he later described as "the Jim Crow south in the 1950s", saying "Everything I know about evil I learn
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1948· 2 entries
Born 1948-01-16.
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The son of Milton Jean (née Carter) and music professor Howard Ralph Carpenter
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