John Carpenter picks his favourite horror and sci-fi books
From Stephen King to H.P Lovecraft…
John Carpenter Archives: 01/2024
The link between John Carpenter’s ‘The Thing’ and the AIDS epidemic
Carpenter and social commentary go hand-in-hand.
Revisiting the ending of ‘Escape From L.A.’: John Carpenter’s campest finale
Time has been kind to the widely-maligned misfire.
John Carpenter names the two movies that “almost killed” him
The filmmaker isn’t interested in running himself into the ground ever again.
The classic horror Roger Ebert called a “great barf bag movie”
Not quite a glowing appraisal, but a recommendation nonetheless.
The actor John Carpenter says he would have given his “eyeteeth to work with”
That doesn’t mean they weren’t used as an inspiration anyway.
‘The Thing’: John Carpenter on the difficulty of failure
The failure came after the release of a Spielberg classic.
