John Carpenter Filmography

Memoirs of an Invisible Man is a movie starring Chevy Chase, Daryl Hannah, and Sam Neill. After a freak accident, a company executive turns completely invisible, goes on the run and becomes hunted by a treacherous CIA official,......

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

Halloween is a movie starring Donald Pleasence, Jamie Lee Curtis, and Tony Moran. Fifteen years after murdering his sister on Halloween night 1963, Michael Myers escapes from a mental hospital and returns to the small town of......

Someone's Watching Me! is a TV movie starring Lauren Hutton, David Birney, and Adrienne Barbeau. A woman is being watched in her apartment by a stranger, who also calls and torments her. A cat-and-mouse game begins....

Biographical movie about the famous rock singer Elvis Presley....

The Fog is a movie starring Adrienne Barbeau, Jamie Lee Curtis, and Janet Leigh. An unearthly fog rolls into a small coastal town exactly 100 years after a ship mysteriously sank in its waters....

Escape from New York is a movie starring Kurt Russell, Lee Van Cleef, and Ernest Borgnine. 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......

A research team in Antarctica is hunted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of its victims....

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

Starman is a movie starring Jeff Bridges, Karen Allen, and Charles Martin Smith. An alien takes the form of a young widow's husband and makes her drive him across the country. The government tries to stop them....

Big Trouble in Little China is a movie starring Kurt Russell, Kim Cattrall, and Dennis Dun. A rough-and-tumble trucker helps rescue his friend's fiancée from an ancient sorcerer in a supernatural battle beneath Chinatown....

A 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....

They 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....

Body Bags is a TV movie starring John Carpenter, Tom Arnold, and Tobe Hooper. Three 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......

In the Mouth of Madness is a movie starring Sam Neill, Jürgen Prochnow, and Julie Carmen. An insurance investigator begins discovering that the impact a horror writer's books have on his fans is more than inspirational....

A small town's women give birth to unfriendly alien children posing as humans....

Recovering 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....

In 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....

The Ward is a movie starring Amber Heard, Mamie Gummer, and Danielle Panabaker. An institutionalized young woman becomes terrorized by a ghost....

Snake Plissken, once committed a magnificent escape from New York must become Adviser to the Government and help it cope with a daunting task. After all, he is the only man to whom under force to commit; the only person who is able to fulfill all......