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John Carpenter

John Carpenter

American filmmaker, actor and composer
January 16, 1948 (76 years old)
U.S. 2022. Horror by Keith Thomas with Ryan Kiera Armstrong, Zac Efron, Sydney Lemmon. Possessing telepathic gifts that allow them to light fires from a distance, a little girl and her father are pursued by government agents.
Runtime: 94 min.
U.S. 2022. Horror by David Gordon Green with Jamie Lee Curtis, Andi Matichak, Will Patton. The ultimate confrontation between Laurie Strode and her brother, the masked serial killer Michael Myers.
Runtime: 111 min.
G.-B. 2021. Horror by David Gordon Green with Jamie Lee Curtis, Judy Greer, Anthony Michael Hall. After narrowly escaping a death trap set by his intended victim, a masked killer returns to terrorize the residents of a small town.
Runtime: 105 min.
U.S. 2018. Horror by David Gordon Green with Jamie Lee Curtis, Judy Greer, Virginia Gardner. The only survivor of a massacre that took place on Halloween night 40 years earlier intends to kill the murderer, who has just escaped.
Runtime: 106 min.
18A
U.S. 2010. Horror by John Carpenter with Amber Heard, Mamie Gummer, Danielle Panabaker. In 1966, the patients of a psychiatric hospital are terrorized by the ghost of a young woman recently murdered there.
Runtime: 88 min.
U.S. 2005. Horror by Rupert Wainwright with Tom Welling, Maggie Grace, Selma Blair. As an island village off the coast of Oregon prepares to celebrate its centennial, the residents fall victim to the deadly specters lurking in a thick fog.
Runtime: 100 min.
U.S. 2001. Science-fiction by John Carpenter with Natasha Henstridge, Ice Cube, Jason Statham. On Mars, a police patrol in charge of bringing back a criminal confronts entities that possess humans.
U.S. 1997. Horror by John Carpenter with James Woods, Daniel Baldwin, Sheryl Lee. Hired by the Vatican to wipe out vampires, a bounty hunter and his team face off against a fearsome 600-year-old blood drinker.
U.S. 1996. Science-fiction by John Carpenter with Kurt Russell, Stacy Keach, Steve Buscemi.
Runtime: 100 min.
U.S. 1995. Science-fiction by John Carpenter with Christopher Reeve, Kirstie Alley, Linda Kozlowski.
Runtime: 98 min.
U.S. 1994. Fantasy by John Carpenter with Sam Neill, Julie Carmen, Jürgen Prochnow.
Runtime: 95 min.

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U.S. 1993. Sketches by Tobe Hooper, John Carpenter with Alex Datcher, Stacy Keach, Mark Hamill. Three horror stories featuring a gas station cashier, a bald man, and a baseball player who lost an eye.
Runtime: 91 min.
U.S. 1992. Fantasy comedy by John Carpenter with Chevy Chase, Daryl Hannah, Sam Neill. After a laboratory accident , a financier becomes invisible and is chased by CIA agents.
Runtime: 99 min.
U.S. 1991. Western by Mel Damski with Rick Schroder, Wilford Brimley, John P. Ryan. While being chased by a vengeful father, a young cowboy is helped by an old trapper with a bad temper.
Runtime: 92 min.
U.S. 1988. Fantasy by John Carpenter with Roddy Piper, Keith David, Meg Foster. An itinerant worker discovers that aliens have taken over command posts and are subjecting humanity to their will.
Runtime: 94 min.
14A
U.S. 1988. Horror by Dwight H. Little with Ellie Cornell, Danielle Harris, Donald Pleasence. A murderous psychopath wreaks havoc after escaping from the ambulance that was transporting him.
Runtime: 88 min.
U.S. 1987. Fantasy by John Carpenter with Donald Pleasence, Victor Wong, Lisa Blount. A priest calls on a professor to fight Satan, who turns out to be an alien entity temporarily kept in a state of sleep.
Runtime: 101 min.
U.S. 1986. Fantasy by John Carpenter with Kurt Russell, Kim Cattrall, James Hong. Two daredevils pursue Asians who kidnapped two young women on behalf of a two-thousand-year-old evil spirit.
Runtime: 100 min.
U.S. 1986. Crime drama by Harley Cokeliss with Tommy Lee Jones, Linda Hamilton, Robert Vaughn. Hired by federal agents, a clever burglar steals a computer tape from a crooked contractor.
Runtime: 100 min.
U.S. 1984. Science-fiction by John Carpenter with Jeff Bridges, Karen Allen, Charles Martin Smith. Shipwrecked on Earth, an alien takes on the features of a man and tries to reach his family with the help of a young woman.
Runtime: 115 min.
U.S. 1983. Fantasy by John Carpenter with Keith Gordon, John Stockwell, Alexandra Paul. A shy teenager buys an old car that turns out to have evil powers.
Runtime: 110 min.
18A
U.S. 1982. Science-fiction by John Carpenter with Kurt Russell, Wilford Brimley, Richard Dysart. Life at a research station in Antarctica is disrupted by the intrusion of a polymorphic alien.
Runtime: 108 min.
Runtime: 92 min.
U.S. 1981. Science-fiction by John Carpenter with Kurt Russell, Lee Van Cleef, Donald Pleasence.
Runtime: 96 min.
Runtime: 90 min.
U.S. 1979. Biography by John Carpenter with Kurt Russell, Season Hubley, Shelley Winters.
Runtime: 120 min.
U.S. 1978. Fantasy by Irvin Kershner with Faye Dunaway, Tommy Lee Jones, René Auberjonois. A mysterious assassin attacks the entourage of a photographer with telepathic powers.
Runtime: 104 min.
U.S. 1978. Crime drama by John Carpenter with Lauren Hutton, David Birney, Adrienne Barbeau. A young woman is frightened by a stranger who watches her from a nearby building.
Runtime: 97 min.
U.S. 1978. Horror by John Carpenter with Jamie Lee Curtis, Donald Pleasence, Nancy Loomis. An unbalanced child who killed his sister on Halloween night escapes from his mental institution fifteen years later and returns to his hometown to claim more victims.
Runtime: 89 min.
U.S. 1976. Crime drama by John Carpenter with Austin Stoker, Darwin Joston, Laurie Zimmer. A black lieutenant in a decommissioned police station resolves to free the prisoners under his watch in order to resist the assault of a gang of thugs.
Runtime: 91 min.
U.S. 1974. Science-fiction by John Carpenter with Brian Narelle, Dan O'Bannon, Andreijah Pahic. The crew of an interplanetary spaceship experiences technical difficulties.
Runtime: 83 min.

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