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1. Halloween (1978)
directed by John Carpenter
featuring Donald Pleasence, Jamie Lee Curtis, Nancy Loomis, P.J. Soles, Charles Cyphers
It was "The Night HE Came Home," warned the posters for John Carpenter's career-making horror smash. In Haddonfield, IL, on Halloween night 1963, six ... More
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2. The Thing (1982)
directed by John Carpenter
featuring Kurt Russell, Wilford Brimley, T.K. Carter, David Clennon, Keith David
John Carpenter's The Thing is both a remake of Howard Hawks' 1951 film of the same name and a re-adaptation of the John W. Campbell Jr. story "Who ... More
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3. Starman (1984)
directed by John Carpenter
featuring Ted White, Jeff Bridges, Karen Allen, Charles Martin Smith, Richard Jaeckel, Robert Phalen
Having crashed to Earth, an extraterrestrial space traveller must assume a human identity lest he be captured by the authorities. The alien (Jeff ... More
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4. Christine (1983)
directed by John Carpenter
featuring Keith Gordon, John Stockwell, Alexandra Paul, Robert Prosky, Harry Dean Stanton, Christine Belford
Director John Carpenter returns to the suburban landscape he explored so chillingly in Halloween (1978) with this lean, stripped-down adaptation of ... More
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5. Escape from New York (1981)
directed by John Carpenter
featuring Kurt Russell, Lee Van Cleef, Ernest Borgnine, Donald Pleasence, Isaac Hayes
The year is 1997. Manhattan Island is now a heavily guarded maximum-security prison, where the scum of the earth have converged. When Air Force One ... More
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6. They Live (1988)
directed by John Carpenter
featuring Roddy Piper, Keith David, Meg Foster, George "Buck" Flower, Peter Jason
John Carpenter wrote and directed this science fiction thriller about a group of aliens who try to take over the world by disguising themselves as ... More
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7. Escape from L.A. (1996)
directed by John Carpenter
featuring Kurt Russell, Stacy Keach, Steve Buscemi, Peter Fonda, Cliff Robertson
Escape from L.A. finds Kurt Russell once again in the role of Snake, which he played in the 1981 film, Escape from New York. Los Angeles has finally ... More
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8. Assault on Precinct 13 (1976)
directed by John Carpenter
featuring Austin Stoker, Darwin Joston, Gilbert De la Pena, Al Nakauchi, Laurie Zimmer, Gil Rankin, Martin West, Cliff Battuello, Tony Burton
Cops, secretaries, and prisoners stuck in a soon-to-be-shuttered L.A. police station fight off a horde of murderous gang members in director John ... More
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9. John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars (2001)
directed by John Carpenter
featuring Ice Cube, Natasha Henstridge, Jason Statham, Pam Grier
Writer and director John Carpenter returns to the mixture of science fiction and horror that made The Thing (1982) a success. Natasha Henstridge ... More
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10. The Fog (1980)
directed by John Carpenter
featuring Adrienne Barbeau, Hal Holbrook, Janet Leigh, Jamie Lee Curtis, John Houseman
Following the phenomenal box-office success of his seminal horror classic Halloween, director John Carpenter teamed up with producer Debra Hill for a ... More
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11. Dark Star (1974)
directed by John Carpenter
featuring Brian Narelle, Andreijah Pahich, Carl Duniholm, Dan O'Bannon
The directorial debut of horrormeister John Carpenter comes in the way of Dark Star a parody of Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece, 2001--A Space Odyssey. ... More
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12. The Ward (2011)
directed by John Carpenter
featuring Amber Heard, Danielle Panabaker, Mamie Gummer, Lyndsy Fonseca, Laura Leigh
A young girl named Kristen (Amber Heard) awakens in a psychiatric hospital after setting a farmhouse ablaze, and finds herself stalked by a ... More
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13. Village of the Damned (1995)
directed by John Carpenter
featuring Christopher Reeve, Kirstie Alley, Linda Kozlowski, Michael Paré, Meredith Salenger
This film is a remake of the classic 1960 science-fiction thriller, Village of the Damned, which was based on the novel The Midwich Cuckoos by John ... More
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14. Masters of Horror: Cigarette Burns (2005)
directed by John Carpenter
featuring Norman Reedus, Udo Kier, Gary Hetherington
Directed by horror expert John Carpenter, Masters of Horror: Cigarette Burns concerns a man who makes his living hunting down films that are often ... More
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15. Prince of Darkness (1987)
directed by John Carpenter
featuring Donald Pleasence, Jameson Parker, Victor Wong, Lisa Blount, Dennis Dun
Proving that you can never guess what you'll find when you clean out the basement, a man of the cloth discovers that ultimate evil has made a hiding ... More
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16. In the Mouth of Madness (1994)
directed by John Carpenter
featuring Sam Neill, Julie Carmen, Jürgen Prochnow, Charlton Heston, David Warner
Hired to help locate a missing author, an insurance investigator discovers to his terror that the nightmarish events depicted in the writer's best ... More
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17. Elvis (1979)
directed by John Carpenter
featuring Kurt Russell, Shelley Winters, Bing Russell, Season Hubley, Pat Hingle
The first volley in the never-ending "Presley movie" blitzkrieg, the made-for-TV Elvis: The Movie stars Kurt Russell as the King, Season Hubley as ... More
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18. Memoirs of an Invisible Man (1992)
directed by John Carpenter
featuring Chevy Chase, Daryl Hannah, Sam Neill, Michael McKean, Stephen Tobolowsky
Chevy Chase stars, though not always visibly, as Nick Halloway, a low-level businessman with an acerbic approach to life and work, whose humdrum ... More
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19. Masters of Horror: Pro-Life (2006)
directed by John Carpenter
featuring Caitlin Wachs, Ron Perlman, Mark Feurerstein, Emmanuelle Vaugier
A pregnant girl trapped in a woman's health clinic makes a disturbing discovery about the child growing inside of her while attempting to fight off ... More
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20. Someone's Watching Me! (1978)
directed by John Carpenter
Hot on the heels of his theatrical-feature megahit Halloween, writer-producer John Carpenter concocted this nailbiting made-for-TV suspenser. Lauren ... More
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21. Big Trouble in Little China (1986)
directed by John Carpenter
featuring Kurt Russell, Kim Cattrall, Dennis Dun, James Hong, Victor Wong
Playing in a manner that can be conservatively described as larger than life, Kurt Russell plays a macho truck driver who agrees to go to the San ... More
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22. Vampires (1998)
directed by John Carpenter
featuring James Woods, Daniel Baldwin, Sheryl Lee, Thomas Ian Griffith, Tim Guinee, Maximilian Schell
John Carpenter directed this horror-western, adapted from the novel Vampire$ by John Steakley, illuminating the pivotal figure of fearless vampire ... More
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23. Body Bags (1993)
directed by John Carpenter, Tobe Hooper
featuring David Warner, Deborah Harry, John Carpenter, Mark Hamill, Roger Corman, Sam Raimi, Stacy Keach, Tobe Hooper, Wes Craven
Horror virtuoso John Carpenter hosts this goofy horror anthology, originally produced for Showtime as a gory stepchild of HBO's Tales from the Crypt ... More
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