From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. John Howard Carpenter (born January 16, 1948) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, editor, composer, and occasional actor. Although ...

John Carpenter is far more than a simple film director. A talented artist, a gifted musician, an inspired writer, and a ...

Back in ’76, Carpenter casually smashed stereotypes by ... and how DeMonaco indulges in othering cliches: John Leguizamo and Ja Rule have been cast as broadly comic hoodlum caricatures, while ...

Though it came after his wonderfully loopy Dan O’Bannon collaboration Dark Star, John Carpenter the auteur made a proper debut with 1976’s Assault On Precinct 13—a taut, gritty thriller that ...