John Carpenter
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"They Live is definitely one of the forgotten masterpieces of the Hollywood Left. ... The sunglasses function like a critique of ideology. They allow you to see the real message beneath all the propaganda, glitz, posters and so on. ... When you put the sunglasses on you see the dictatorship in democracy, the invisible order which sustains your apparent freedom." --The Pervert's Guide to Ideology, Slavoj Žižek |
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John Howard Carpenter (born January 16, 1948) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, editor and composer. Although Carpenter has worked in numerous film genres, he is most commonly associated with horror and science fiction films from the 1970s and 1980s.
Carpenter's most notable films are Halloween (1978), Escape from New York (1981) and Starman (1984). Many of Carpenter's films from the 1970s and the 1980s have come to be viewed as cult classics, and Carpenter has been acknowledged as an influential filmmaker. Cult classics include: Dark Star (1974), Assault on Precinct 13 (1976), The Fog (1980), The Thing (1982), Christine (1983), Big Trouble in Little China (1986), Prince of Darkness (1987) and They Live (1988).
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Discography
Studio albums
- Lost Themes (2015)
- Remix EP (2015)
- Lost Themes Remixed (16th October 2015)
Filmography
Feature films as Director
- Dark Star (1974)
- Assault on Precinct 13 (1976)
- Someone's Watching Me! (1978) (TV movie)
- Halloween (1978)
- Elvis (1979) (TV movie)
- The Fog (1980)
- Escape from New York (1981)
- The Thing (1982)
- Christine (1983)
- Starman (1984)
- Big Trouble in Little China (1986)
- Prince of Darkness (1987)
- They Live (1988)
- Memoirs of an Invisible Man (1992)
- Body Bags (1993) (TV anthology movie)
- In the Mouth of Madness (1994)
- Village of the Damned (1995)
- Escape from L.A. (1996)
- Vampires (1998)
- Ghosts of Mars (2001)
- The Ward (2010)
