Movies by Director - John Carpenter (28 [Missing: 7]) Title | Year | Director | Genre | Rating | Runtime | Added |
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Revenge of the Colossal BeastsNA | 1962 | | Short | | | Not Available |
Gorgo Versus GodzillaNA | 1969 | | Short | | | Not Available |
Gorgon, the Space MonsterNA | 1969 | | Short | | | Not Available |
Dark StarIn the far reaches of space, a small crew, 20 years into their solitary mission, find things beginning to go hilariously wrong. | 1974 | John Carpenter | Comedy,Sci-Fi | 6.3 (23.9K votes) | 83 | 20211228 |
Assault On Precinct 13An 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. | 1976 | John Carpenter | Action,Crime,Thriller | 7.4 (48.6K votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
HalloweenFifteen 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. | 1978 | John Carpenter | Horror,Thriller | 7.7 (262.1K votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
Someone's Watching Me!A woman is being watched in her apartment by a stranger, who also calls and torments her. A cat-and-mouse game begins. | 1978 | John Carpenter | Horror,Mystery,Thriller | 6.6 (4.2K votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
ElvisBiographical movie about the famous rock singer Elvis Presley. | 1979 | John Carpenter | Biography,Drama,Music | 7.0 (3.9K votes) | 150 | 20211228 |
Fog, TheAn unearthly fog rolls into a small coastal town exactly 100 years after a ship mysteriously sank in its waters. | 1980 | John Carpenter | Horror,Thriller | 6.8 (71.2K votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
Escape From New YorkIn 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. | 1981 | John Carpenter | Action,Adventure,Sci-Fi | 7.2 (137.2K votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
Thing, TheA research team in Antarctica is hunted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of its victims. | 1982 | John Carpenter | Horror,Mystery,Sci-Fi | 8.1 (402.6K votes) | 109 | 20211228 |
ChristineA nerdish boy buys a strange car with an evil mind of its own and his nature starts to change to reflect it. | 1983 | John Carpenter | Horror,Thriller | 6.7 (79.2K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
StarmanAn alien takes the form of a young Wisconsin widow's husband and makes her drive him to his departure point in Arizona. Distrustful government agents, along with a more ambivalent scientist, give pursuit in hopes of intercepting them | 1984 | John Carpenter | Romance,Sci-Fi | 7.0 (46.1K votes) | 115 | 20211228 |
Big Trouble in Little ChinaA rough-and-tumble trucker and his side kick face off with an ancient sorcerer in a supernatural battle beneath Chinatown. | 1986 | John Carpenter | Action,Adventure,Comedy | 7.3 (134.7K votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
Prince of DarknessA group of graduate students and scientists uncover an ancient canister in an abandoned church, but when they open the container, they inadvertently unleash a strange liquid and an evil force on all humanity. | 1987 | John Carpenter | Horror | 6.7 (41.8K votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
They LiveThey influence our decisions without us knowing it. They numb our senses without us feeling it. They control our lives without us realizing it. They live. | 1988 | John Carpenter | Action,Horror,Sci-Fi | 7.3 (124K votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
Memoirs of an Invisible ManAfter a freak accident, a company executive turns completely invisible, goes on the run and becomes hunted by a treacherous CIA official, whilst trying to cope with his new reality. | 1992 | John Carpenter | Comedy,Romance,Sci-Fi | 6.0 (24.5K votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
Body BagsThree short stories in the horror genre: the first about a serial killer, the second about a hair transplant gone wrong, and the third about a baseball player. | 1993 | John Carpenter, Tobe Hooper, Larry Sulkis | Comedy,Horror,Sci-Fi | 6.2 (10.3K votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
In The Mouth of MadnessAn insurance investigator begins discovering that the impact a horror writer's books have on his fans is more than inspirational. | 1994 | John Carpenter | Drama,Fantasy,Horror | 7.2 (67K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
Village of the DamnedA small town's women give birth to unfriendly alien children posing as humans. | 1995 | John Carpenter | Horror,Sci-Fi,Thriller | 5.7 (31.1K votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
Escape From L.ASnake Plissken is once again called in by the United States government to recover a potential doomsday device from Los Angeles, now an autonomous island where undesirables are deported. | 1996 | John Carpenter | Action,Adventure,Sci-Fi | 5.7 (73.4K votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
VampiresRecovering from an ambush that killed his entire team, a vengeful vampire slayer must retrieve an ancient Catholic relic that, should it be acquired by vampires, will allow them to walk in sunlight. | 1998 | John Carpenter | Action,Horror,Thriller | 6.1 (57.2K votes) | 108 | 20211228 |
Sorceror from Outer SpaceNA | 1969 | | Short | | | Not Available |
Terror from SpaceNA | 1963 | | Short | | | Not Available |
Warrior and the DemonNA | 1969 | | Short | | | Not Available |
Ghosts of MarsIn 2176, a Martian police unit is sent to pick up a highly dangerous criminal at a remote mining post. Upon arrival, the cops find that the post has become a charnel house. | 2001 | John Carpenter | Action,Horror,Sci-Fi | 4.9 (53.7K votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
Ward, TheAn institutionalized young woman becomes terrorized by a ghost. | 2010 | John Carpenter | Horror,Mystery,Thriller | 5.6 (41.9K votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
Captain VoyeurNA | 1969 | | Horror,Short | | | Not Available |