John Howard Carpenter

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John Carpenter was born on January 16th 1948 in Carthage, NY and spent his formative years being raised in Bowling Green, Kentucky, which he regards as his home town. He was inspired to become a director after seeing such films as "It Came From Outer Space", "Forbidden Planet" and "Creature From The Black Lagoon".

Carpenter scores most of his own films (with the most notable and confusing exception being "The Thing") which helps to give them that individual John Carpenter feel. His ability to write scores is something he underplays (he consistently states he does it because he is "cheap and on-time"!).

"I like to be as simple as possible. I don't like to show off."
~John Carpenter

Carpenter is a consistently successful director, while some of his films are more well received than others, none of his films have ever lost money for the studio (a pretty big achievement). He often works with the same familiar cast and crew (Kurt Russell, Debra Hill, Donald Pleasance, Tommy Wallace, Jamie Leigh Curtis,... the list goes on). His awesome talent for portraying the fantastic on the screen puts him in a league of his own.

Horror Filmography

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"As a kid, I knew a lot of the movies I saw were hideous, but I didn't care, I loved them anyway."
~John Carpenter.