John Carpenter
The minimalist visionary who turned low budgets into immortal nightmares.
Biography
Born in 1948, Carpenter’s gift was precision—both in storytelling and sound. With Halloween, he reinvented suspense through silence, and with The Thing and Escape from New York, he painted America’s paranoia in widescreen dystopia.
Selected Filmography
- 🎃 Halloween (1978)
- 👽 The Thing (1982)
- 🏙 Escape from New York (1981)
- 🕶 They Live (1988)
- 👁 In the Mouth of Madness (1994)