Movies directed by John Carpenter

  • Halloween

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    8

    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.

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  • The Thing

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    8

    Scientists in the Antarctic are confronted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of the people that it kills.

  • Big Trouble in Little China

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    6

    An All-American trucker gets dragged into a centuries-old mystical battle in Chinatown.

  • Christine

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    6

    A nerdish boy buys a strange car with a evil mind of its own and his nature starts to change to reflect it.

  • Assault on Precinct 13

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    5

    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.

  • Escape from New York

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    5

    In 1997, when the U.S. president crashes into Manhattan, now a giant maximum security prison, a convicted bank robber is sent in to rescue him.

  • The Fog

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    5

    A Northern California fishing town, built 100 years ago over an old leper colony, is the target for revenge by a killer fog containing zombie-like ghosts seeking revenge for their deaths.

  • The Ward

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    5

    A thriller centered on an institutionalized young woman who becomes terrorized by a ghost.

  • They Live!

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    5

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

  • Dark Star

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    4

    In the far reaches of space, a small crew, 20 years into their solitary mission, find things beginning to go hilariously wrong.