Carpenter was born on January 16, 1948 in Carthage, New York, the son of Milton Jean ("née" Carter) and Howard Ralph Carpenter, a music professor. He and his family relocated to Bowling Green, Kentucky during 1953. He was interested in films from an early age, particularly the westerns of Howard Hawks and John Ford, as well as 1950s low-budget horror films such as "The Thing from Another World" and high-budget science fiction like "Forbidden Planet", and began filming horror short films with 8 mm film even before starting high school. He attended Western Kentucky University, where his father chaired the music department, then transferred to the University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts during 1968, but quit to make his first feature film.
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John Carpenter | Early life
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Carpenter was born on January 16, 1948 in Carthage, New York, the son of Milton Jean ("née" Carter) and Howard Ralph Carpenter, a music professor. He and his family relocated to Bowling Green, Kentucky during 1953. He was interested in films from an early age, particularly the westerns of Howard Hawks and John Ford, as well as 1950s low-budget horror films such as "The Thing from Another World" and high-budget science fiction like "Forbidden Planet", and began filming horror short films with 8 mm film even before starting high school. He attended Western Kentucky University, where his father chaired the music department, then transferred to the University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts during 1968, but quit to make his first feature film.
John Carpenter | Early life
John Howard Carpenter (born January 16, 1948) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, and composer. Although Carpenter has worked with various film genres, he is associated most commonly with horror, action, and science fiction films of the 1970s and 1980s. Most films of Carpenter's career were initially commercial and critical failures, with the notable exceptions of "Halloween" (1978), "The Fog" (1980), "Escape from New York" (1981), and "Starman" (1984). However, many of Carpenter's films from the 1970s and the 1980s have come to be considered as cult classics, and he has been acknowledged as an influential filmmaker. The cult classics that Carpenter has directed include "Dark Star" (1974), "Assault on Precinct 13" (1976), "The Thing" (1982), "Christine" (1983), "Big Trouble in Little China" (1986), "Prince of Darkness" (1987), "They Live" (1988), and "In the Mouth of Madness" (1995).
John Carpenter | Introduction
Carpenter was originally in consideration to be the director for the "Halloween" (1978) sequel project, "" (1998). Since Jamie Lee Curtis, the main actress from the original and the sequel "Halloween II" (1981), wanted to reunite the cast and crew of the original film, she asked Carpenter to direct "Halloween H20: 20 Years Later". Carpenter agreed to direct the film, but his starting fee as director was $10 million. Carpenter rationalized this by believing the hefty fee was compensation for revenue he had never received from the original "Halloween", a matter that was still a contention between Carpenter and "Halloween" producer Moustapha Akkad even after twenty years.
John Carpenter | 1990s: Commercial decline and "Halloween H20: 20 Years Later"
For example, when Castle asked what Myers' motivation was for a particular scene, Carpenter replied that his motivation was to walk from one set marker to another and "not act." By Carpenter's account the only direction he gave Castle was during the murder sequence of Bob, in which he told Castle to tilt his head and examine the corpse as if it "were a butterfly collection."
Halloween (1978 film) | Filming
In a beginning film course at USC Cinema during 1969, Carpenter wrote and directed an 8-minute short film, "Captain Voyeur". The film was rediscovered in the USC archives in 2011 and proved interesting because it revealed elements that would appear in his later film, "Halloween" (1978). The next year he collaborated with producer John Longenecker as co-writer, film editor, and music composer for "The Resurrection of Broncho Billy" (1970), which won an Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film. The short film was enlarged to 35 mm, sixty prints were made, and the film was released theatrically by Universal Studios for two years in the United States and Canada.
John Carpenter | 1960s: Student films and Academy Award
John Carpenter (born 1948) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, and film music composer. John Carpenter may also refer to:
John Carpenter (disambiguation) | Introduction
On October 25, 2010, he was featured on the Biography Channel's "The Inside Story: Halloween" documentary about director John Carpenter's 1978 film, "Halloween".
John Kenneth Muir | Media appearances
Moreover, during 2006, the United States Library of Congress deemed "Halloween" to be "culturally significant" and selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry. During 2010, writer and actor Mark Gatiss interviewed Carpenter about his career and films for his BBC documentary series "A History of Horror". Carpenter appears in all three episodes of the series. He was also interviewed by Robert Rodriguez for his "The Director's Chair" series on El Rey Network.
John Carpenter | Legacy
Reluctant to extend his involvement in the film, Carpenter refused to direct and originally approached Tommy Lee Wallace, the art director from the original "Halloween", to take the helm. Carpenter told one interviewer: "I had made that film once and I really didn't want to do it again." After Wallace declined, Carpenter chose Rosenthal, a relatively unknown and inexperienced director whose previous credits included episodes of the television series "Secrets of Midland Heights" (1980–1981). Rosenthal was chosen to direct based on a short film he had made, "The Toyer", while a student at the American Film Institute. Debra Hill had also considered directing at one point, but did not want to appear as "just a protégé" of Carpenter.
Halloween II (1981 film) | Direction
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John Farrelly (director) | Early life
He reportedly complained that Carpenter "ruined [my] carefully paced film." Regardless, many of the graphic scenes contained elements not seen before in film. Roger Ebert claims, "This movie has the first close-up I can remember of a hypodermic needle being inserted into an eyeball." The film is often categorized as a splatter film rather than a slasher film due to the elevated level of gore.
Halloween II (1981 film) | Direction
Carpenter's 1990s career is characterized by a number of notable failures: "Memoirs of an Invisible Man" (1992), "Village of the Damned" (1995), and "Escape from L.A." (1996) are examples of films that were critical and financial failures. Also notable from this decade are "Body Bags", a television horror anthology film that was made in collaboration with Tobe Hooper, "In the Mouth of Madness" (1995), yet another Lovecraftian homage, which did not do well either commercially or with critics but now has a cult following, and "Vampires" (1998), which featured James Woods as the leader of a band of vampire hunters in league with the Catholic Church.
John Carpenter | 1990s: Commercial decline and "Halloween H20: 20 Years Later"
John Carpenter is an American film director, producer, writer and composer. He has contributed to many projects as either the producer, writer, director, actor, composer or a combination of the five.
John Carpenter filmography | Introduction
Carpenter wrote the film in the mid-1970s in reaction to the Watergate scandal. After the success of "Halloween" (1978), he had enough influence to begin production and filmed it mainly in St. Louis, Missouri, on an estimated budget of $6 million. Debra Hill and Larry J. Franco served as the producers. The film was co-written by Nick Castle, who had collaborated with Carpenter by portraying Michael Myers in "Halloween".
Escape from New York | Introduction
He also played the "Screwdriver Zombie" in Romero's classic "Dawn of the Dead" (1978). The music that was composed for the score of "Creepshow" was also featured in the fake trailer for "Thanksgiving" in the film "Grindhouse" (2007).
John Harrison (director) | Early life and career
When Akkad balked at Carpenter's fee, Carpenter quit the project. Steve Miner assumed directing of "Halloween H20: 20 Years Later", which was a commercial success despite receiving mixed reviews. During 1998, Carpenter composed the soundtrack (titled "Earth/Air") for the video game "Sentinel Returns", published for PC and PlayStation.
John Carpenter | 1990s: Commercial decline and "Halloween H20: 20 Years Later"
Carpenter's first major film as director, "Dark Star" (1974), was a science fiction comedy that he co-wrote with Dan O'Bannon (who later went on to write "Alien", borrowing freely from much of "Dark Star"). The film reportedly cost only $60,000 and was difficult to make as both Carpenter and O'Bannon completed the film by multitasking, with Carpenter doing the musical score as well as the writing, producing, and directing, while O'Bannon acted in the film and did the special effects (which caught the attention of George Lucas who hired him to work with the special effects for the film "Star Wars").
John Carpenter | 1970s: From student films to theatrical releases
The film was shot in eighteen days. "I had some control over it," said Carpenter. "I was able to shoot only what I wanted, I wouldn't cover it... I just gave them what I wanted and it got okayed." Carpenter worked with Adrienne Barbeau, whom he married in 1979, for the first time when making "Someones Watching Me!". Barbeau later starred in "The Fog" (1980) and had a supporting role in "Escape from New York" (1981). The television station Leigh Michaels gets a job at is named KJHC. The last three letters are a secret wink to the writer and director's full name: John Howard Carpenter.
Someone's Watching Me! | Shooting
Akkad said, "I just went back to the basics of "Halloween" on "Halloween 4" and it was the most successful." As Carpenter refused to continue his involvement with the series, a new director was sought out. Dwight H. Little, a native of Ohio, replaced Carpenter. Little had previously directed episodes for "Freddy's Nightmares" and the film "Bloodstone".
Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers | Development
As also stated in the 2009 documentary "Clarkworld" (written and directed by Clark's former production designer Deren Abram after Clark's tragic death in 2007), Carpenter directly asked Clark about his thoughts on developing the anonymous slasher in "Black Christmas":
Halloween (1978 film) | Concept
McCarthy was born in New Hampshire to an Irish-American Catholic family. His family relocated to the Boston area when McCarthy's father took a position as headmaster at Brookline High School. His mother also worked in education as a schoolteacher. McCarthy began shooting films at the age of 10 with a Super 8 camera inspired by scary movies that he saw. One of McCarthy's first movie theater outings was seeing the shark-fear movie "Jaws" with his older sister, and he later frequented Boston's many repertory cinemas, such as the Coolidge Corner Theater, which screened 35mm prints of older American and foreign films.
Nicholas McCarthy (director) | Early life
The grandson of a film sound engineer, Carpenter was born in Van Nuys, California in 1950 to a family of six. After his parents divorced in 1960, he moved with his mother and 4 siblings to Orange County, where he took up Super 8 films as a hobby. He enrolled in San Diego State University to study television directing, but later changed his major to English. To pay for school, he worked at a local public broadcasting channel, where he learned the ropes of documentary filmmaking. After graduating, he moved back to Orange County, where he shot educational films and documentaries.
Russell Carpenter | Early life and education
Carpenter did not want to write the project himself, after recently completing work on "Escape from New York" (1981), and having struggled to complete a screenplay for "The Philadelphia Experiment" (1984). He was wary of taking on writing duties, preferring to let someone else do it. Once Carpenter was confirmed as the director, several writers were asked to script "The Thing", including Richard Matheson, Nigel Kneale, and Deric Washburn. Bill Lancaster initially met with Turman, Foster and Cohen in 1977, but he was given the impression that they wanted to closely replicate "The Thing from Another World", and he did not want to remake the film.
The Thing (1982 film) | Writing
Wallace explains: "Since the release of "Halloween", horror movies had changed. There was inflation involved in terms of violence and gore and what you saw onscreen, to the point that John [Carpenter] felt like he was in a boxhe could not do the same thing that "Halloween" had been doing." According to the film's official website, "Carpenter came in and directed a few sequences to clean up some of Rosenthal's work." One reviewer of the film notes that "Carpenter, concerned that the picture would be deemed too 'tame' by the slasher audience, re-filmed several death scenes with more gore." When asked about his role in the directing process, Carpenter told an interviewer: Rosenthal was not pleased with Carpenter's changes.
Halloween II (1981 film) | Direction
Carpenter's films are characterized by minimalist lighting and photography, static cameras, use of steadicam, and distinctive synthesized scores (usually self-composed). With the exception of "Someone's Watching Me!", "Elvis", "The Thing", "Starman", "Memoirs of an Invisible Man", and "The Ward", he has scored all of his films (though some are collaborations), most famously the themes from "Halloween" and "Assault on Precinct 13". His music is generally synthesized with accompaniment from piano and atmospherics. Carpenter is an outspoken proponent of widescreen filming, and all of his theatrical films (with the exception of "Dark Star" and "The Ward") were filmed anamorphic with a 2.35:1 or greater aspect ratio.
John Carpenter | Techniques
His first job in the film and television industry was as a carpenter, building sets for advertisements and pop promos. From there he worked his way up the art department in a variety of roles, finishing up as an art director working on a number of BBC dramas and the feature film "The Young Americans", before returning to study direction at the National Film and Television School, Beaconsfield. Upon leaving three years later, his first directing jobs were "Edith's Finger", which won the BAFTA Cymru for Best Short Film, and the ITV series "Cold Feet", in 2000, with his three episodes receiving an average of 9 million viewers.
Jon Jones (director) | Early life, education and early career
Nicholas Andre Carpenter is an American film director. He worked as a set production assistant on TV and on films such as "Thank You for Smoking" (2005) before going on to direct the 2009 horror anthology "The Telling".
Nicholas Carpenter | Introduction
The last film for which he received credit as an editor was 2000 slasher film, "Cherry Falls", directed by Geoffrey Wright, and starring Brittany Murphy, Jay Mohr, and Michael Biehn.
John F. Link | Life and career
Horace B. Carpenter (January 31, 1875 – May 21, 1945) was an American actor, film director, and screenwriter. He appeared in 334 films between 1914 and 1946. He also directed 15 films between 1925 and 1934. Born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Carpenter died in Hollywood, California, from a heart attack.
Horace B. Carpenter | Introduction
The Carpenter is a 1988 horror film directed by David Wellington, and written by Doug Taylor.
The Carpenter (film) | Introduction
John Curran (born November 9, 1960) is an American film director and screenwriter.
John Curran (director) | Introduction
During that time he worked with directors including Sydney Pollack, Milos Forman, Tim Burton, John Schlesinger and Alan Parker. In 2001 John wrote and directed the short film "Chopsticks" , starring Ron Moody. The film was a finalist in the 2002 Turner Classic Movies short film competition.
John MacInnes (writer) | Early life
"The Ward", Carpenter's first film since 2001's "Ghosts of Mars", premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 13, 2010. Carpenter narrated the video game "F.E.A.R. 3," while also consulting on its storyline. On October 10, 2010, Carpenter received the Lifetime Award from the Freak Show Horror Film Festival. Test footage from the set of "Darkchylde" emerged in July 2010 and on October 31, 2010, it was announced Carpenter will direct. On February 3, 2015, the indie label Sacred Bones Records released his album "Lost Themes". On October 19, 2015, All Tomorrow's Parties announced that Carpenter will be performing old and new compositions in London and Manchester, England.
John Carpenter | 2010s: "The Ward", focus on music and return to "Halloween"
Commenting on the role and on appearing in another of Carpenter's films, she said "That's what I love about John. He's letting me explore different aspects of myself. I'm spoiled rotten now. My next director is going to be almost a letdown".
The Fog | Casting
Moore was born in Dundalk, Ireland, and attended Dublin Institute of Technology, where he attained a degree in Media Arts. Upon completing his course, Moore genuinely believed that he wouldn't go on to work within the medium of film, but after a few years, that promptly changed.
John Moore (director) | Early life and education
Many script details were drawn from Carpenter's and Hill's own backgrounds and early careers: The fictional town of Haddonfield, Illinois was derived from Haddonfield, New Jersey, where Hill was raised, while several of the street names were taken from Carpenter's hometown of Bowling Green, Kentucky. Laurie Strode was allegedly the name of one of Carpenter's old girlfriends, while Michael Myers was the name of an English producer who had previously entered, with Yablans, "Assault on Precinct 13" in various European film festivals. Homage is paid to Alfred Hitchcock with two characters' names: Tommy Doyle is named after Lt. Det. Thomas J.
Halloween (1978 film) | Screenplay
John Hough (born 21 November 1941) is a British film and television director. He is primarily known for his suspense films of the 1970s and 1980s, including "Twins of Evil" (1971), "The Legend of Hell House" (1973), "The Watcher in the Woods" (1980), "The Incubus" (1982) and "American Gothic" (1988).
John Hough (director) | Introduction
Carpenter met his future wife, actress Adrienne Barbeau, on the set of his 1978 television film "Someone's Watching Me!". Carpenter was married to Barbeau from January 1, 1979, to 1984. During their marriage, Barbeau starred in "The Fog", and also appeared in "Escape from New York". The couple had one son, John Howard Jr. (born May 7, 1984), nicknamed "Cody" to avoid confusion with his father. Carpenter has been married to producer Sandy King since 1990. King produced Carpenter's later films "In the Mouth of Madness", "Village of the Damned", "Vampires", and "Ghosts of Mars". She earlier had been the script supervisor for his films "Starman", "Big Trouble in Little China", "Prince of Darkness", and "They Live".
John Carpenter | Personal life
Jonathan Rhys Jones was born on 5 March 1967, in Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire. He was raised near Narbeth, Pembrokeshire, until the age of 18, attending Netherwood School, in Saundersfoot, then Oundle School, Northamptonshire, where he was in Fisher House (then called Laxton House). While at Oundle, he developed a passion for the dramatic arts, directing plays at the school's theatre, The Stahl. He graduated from University of Manchester with a degree in English literature and worked variously on archeological digs in Ecuador, as a flyman, prop maker and scenic carpenter in a repertory theatre, as a night watchman, a meat packer, a kitchen porter, a fruit picker and building labourer.
Jon Jones (director) | Early life, education and early career
Born in King's Lynn, Norfolk, Carpenter attended the Old Vic Theatre School before starting an acting career by working in repertory theatre.
Richard Carpenter (screenwriter) | Early life
Before applying, O'Bannon was pursuing a psychology degree. It was at USC that he met John Carpenter and collaborated with him on the science fiction student film "Dark Star" (1974).
Dan O'Bannon | Early life
Born in St. Paul, Minnesota and raised in McClusky, North Dakota, John Hanson received his B.A. from Carleton College and did postgraduate studies in architecture at Harvard Graduate School of Design.
John Hanson (director) | Early life
After viewing Carpenter's film "Assault on Precinct 13" (1976) at the Milan Film Festival, independent film producer Irwin Yablans and financier Moustapha Akkad sought out Carpenter to direct a film for them about a psychotic killer that stalked babysitters. In an interview with "Fangoria" magazine, Yablans stated: "I was thinking what would make sense in the horror genre, and what I wanted to do was make a picture that had the same impact as "The Exorcist"." Carpenter agreed to direct the film contingent on his having full creative control, and was paid $10,000 for his work, which included writing, directing, and scoring the film.
Halloween (1978 film) | Concept
He began his career with Ken Loach, acting as the latter's assistant director on such works as "Up the Junction" (1965) and "Cathy Come Home" (1966). This training allowed Mackenzie to begin a move into directing himself, as well as teaching him the skills of working on location with non-professional, local actors to a tight budget and schedule.
John Mackenzie (film director) | Early career
He appeared in the spoof "Forgotten Silver" (1995).
John O'Shea (director) | Introduction
Scenes were also shot in nearby Bradford, Halifax and Keighley. Woodcock attended Berry Brow Junior School as a boy, then Newsome High School and Sports College between 1972–77 and Greenhead College from 1977–79. He then went to Batley School of Art and Design and Manchester University where he studied Industrial Design. By the time he was only 20 both his parents were dead. His father had died when Woodcock was still very young, leaving his widowed mother to bring him up on her own.
Steven Woodcock (film director) | Early life
Born in Belfast in 1967, he studied at Clare College, Cambridge and graduated (1989) with a First Class degree in Classics.
David Kerr (director) | Early life
John McNaughton (born January 13, 1950) is an American film and television director, originally from Chicago, Illinois, known for his first film "".
John McNaughton | Introduction
Stephenson was born in London, England. Educated at the Kingston School of Art and then the Royal College of Art, graduating in 1979. He moved to the USA and had a brief spell working as a designer of prestigious-fashion West End Interiors in Los Angeles.
John Stephenson (director) | Early life
Robert also appeared in two other John Carpenter movies; namely "Someone's Watching Me!" (1978) and "Starman" (1984). His other film credits include "Three Days of the Condor" (1975), "Just You and Me, Kid" (1979), "Zoot Suit" (1981), "The Gladiator" (1986) and "Impulse" (1990).
Robert Phalen | Introduction
Mackenzie was born in Edinburgh, where he attended Holy Cross Academy. He studied history at the University of Edinburgh. He studied drama and joined Edinburgh's Gateway Theatre Company. He worked as a teacher and moved to London in 1960.
John Mackenzie (film director) | Early life
Carpenter denies writing sexually active teens to be victims in favor of a virginal "final girl" survivor, though subsequent filmmakers copied what appeared to be a "sex-equals-death" mantra. When shown an early cut of "Halloween" without a musical score, all major American studios declined to distribute it, one executive even remarking that it was not scary. Carpenter added music himself, and the film was distributed locally in four Kansas City theaters through Akkad's Compass International Pictures in October 1978. Word-of-mouth made the movie a sleeper hit that was selected to screen at the November 1978 Chicago Film Festival, where the country's major critics acclaimed it.
Slasher film | 1978
Local families dressed their children in Halloween costumes for trick-or-treat scenes. Carpenter worked with the cast to create the desired effect of terror and suspense. According to Curtis, Carpenter created a "fear meter" because the film was shot out-of-sequence and she was not sure what her character's level of terror should be in certain scenes. "Here's about a 7, here's about a 6, and the scene we're going to shoot tonight is about a 9", remembered Curtis. She had different facial expressions and scream volumes for each level on the meter. Carpenter's direction for Castle in his role as Myers was minimal.
Halloween (1978 film) | Filming
He credits his aunt Deanna Mollner, who lived in Los Angeles in the '70s and "ran around with the likes of Jack Nicholson, and Roman Polanski" for introducing him to the films of Polanski, Stanley Kubrick, and Federico Fellini. JT said in an interview that he always knew as a child he wanted to be a filmmaker, though he felt it wasn't an option for him because his older brother Daniel had already attended UCLA Film School.
JT Mollner | Early life
Carpenter, a fan of Hawks's adaptation, paid homage to it in "Halloween", and he watched "The Thing from Another World" several times for inspiration before filming began. Carpenter and cinematographer Dean Cundey first worked together on "Halloween", and "The Thing" was their first big-budget project for a major film studio.
The Thing (1982 film) | Development
The film was the first time Carpenter worked with Debra Hill, who played prominently in the making of some of Carpenter's most important films. Carpenter assembled a main cast that consisted of experienced but relatively obscure actors. The two main actors were Austin Stoker, who had appeared previously in science fiction, disaster, and blaxploitation films, and Darwin Joston, who had worked primarily for television and had once been Carpenter's next-door neighbor.
John Carpenter | 1970s: From student films to theatrical releases
He entered the film industry working as an assistant director to Mani Kaul for the film "Uski Roti" (1969, Hindi). He has worked for some Hindi projects that was shot in Kerala, but none were released. Abraham's first attempt in direction came in 1967 named "Vidyarthikale Ithile Ithile". It was the Tamil film "Agraharathil Kazhuthai" (1977) that gave Abraham recognition.
John Abraham (director) | Early life
In 1976, he appeared as an extra in the film "A Star Is Born" before pursuing a behind the camera career. In 1997, Carpenter received a Grammy nomination as producer and Primetime Emmy nomination for editing the "Great Performances" episode "Robert Altman's Jazz '34" nominated with Dylan Tichenor. As well as directing music videos for Ringo Starr, Aerosmith, Ozzy Osbourne, Emmylou Harris, Neil Young and Cledus T. Judd.
Brent Carpenter | Career
Tim Grierson of "Screen International" wrote, "Tight as a drum and plenty of fun, John Carpenter's first film in nine years is hardly a groundbreaker, but when the execution is this expert, why complain?" "Film Journal International" wrote, "Genre veteran John Carpenter's sleekly professional ghost story is well-acted and directed but sadly derivative. Horror fans have seen it all before."" The Guardian"'s Phelim O'Neill also considered the film to be unoriginal, but nevertheless "a well-made film, with some finely crafted shocks" Jeannette Catsoulis of "The New York Times" wrote that the film "continues the painful decline of a director who seems more nostalgic for past glories than excited about new ideas".
The Ward (film) | Reception
Born was Elwood Dager in Toledo, Ohio to a well-off Scottish-English family, executives in the steel and iron industry, Cromwell graduated from private high school at Howe Military Academy in 1905, but never pursued a higher education.
John Cromwell (director) | Early life and education
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John G. Young | Filmography
This is one of the few John Carpenter films not scored by the director, with Shirley Walker composing the music instead. Unlike prior collaborators Ennio Morricone on "The Thing" and Jack Nitzsche on "Starman", Walker would re-team with Carpenter – the two co-scored the subsequent "Escape From L.A.".
Memoirs of an Invisible Man (film) | Music
He was born in Hampstead. He attended King's College School in Wimbledon, then studied French and German at Brasenose College, Oxford.
Barry Myers (director) | Early life
Carpenter remade the film due to "The Thing from Another World" being one of his favorite films, and the 1951 adaptation is an Easter egg in Carpenter's original "Halloween". Carpenter directed the film from a Bill Lancaster screenplay. Carpenter's idea was not to compete with the direction of the earlier film. In both the novella and this adaptation, the Thing can imitate any animal-based life form, absorbing the respective hosts' personalities and memories along with their bodies (although the telepathy aspect is omitted). When the story begins, the creature has already been discovered and released from the ice by another expedition.
Who Goes There? | Film
William Bowman was born in Bakersville, North Carolina, in 1884. As "a boy" he moved with his parents to California, where he later attended Lordsburg College, then located in Pomona. Bowman in college studied architecture and spent a short time working as a draftsman until his career interests turned to acting and the management of stage productions.
William Bowman (director) | Early life
Nicholas Charles Castle (born September 21, 1947) is an American screenwriter, film director and actor. He is known for playing Michael Myers in John Carpenter's horror film "Halloween" (1978). Castle also co-wrote "Escape from New York" (1981) with Carpenter. After "Halloween", Castle became a director, taking the helm of films such as "The Last Starfighter" (1984), "The Boy Who Could Fly" (1986), "Dennis the Menace" (1993), and "Major Payne" (1995). He reprised the role, in a single scene, of Michael Myers in "Halloween" (2018).
Nick Castle | Introduction
Captain Voyeur (1969) was the first short film by director John Carpenter while a student at USC Cinema. The 8-minute film is about a bored computer worker who becomes fixated on a woman at work and follows her back to her home. The film remained in the USC's Hugh M. Hefner Moving Image Archive until 2011, when it was rediscovered by archivist Dino Everett. The film is notable because it includes several elements that would appear in Carpenter's later horror film, "Halloween". Everett says that the similarities include a striking resemblance between the lead actresses. The film was selected in 2011 for preservation by the National Film Preservation Foundation because of its historical significance in showing Carpenter's development as a filmmaker.
Captain Voyeur | Introduction
Stewart was born in Tucson, Arizona.
Jackson Stewart (film director) | Early life
In February 2016, Carpenter announced a sequel to "Lost Themes" titled "Lost Themes II", which was released on April 15, 2016. He then released his third studio album, titled "", on October 20, 2017. Carpenter acted as executive producer, co-composer, and creative consultant on a new film in the "Halloween" film series, titled "Halloween", and released in October 2018. The film acts as a direct sequel to Carpenter's original film, ignoring the continuity of all other previous films. It was his first direct involvement with the franchise since 1982's "".
John Carpenter | 2010s: "The Ward", focus on music and return to "Halloween"
Carpenter followed up the success of "Halloween" with "The Fog" (1980), a ghostly revenge tale (co-written by Hill) inspired by horror comics such as "Tales from the Crypt" and by "The Crawling Eye", a 1958 film about monsters hiding in clouds. Completing "The Fog" was an unusually difficult process for Carpenter. After viewing a rough cut of the film, he was dissatisfied with the result. For the only time in his filmmaking career, he had to devise a way to salvage a nearly finished film that did not meet his standards. In order to make the film more coherent and frightening, Carpenter filmed additional footage that included a number of new scenes.
John Carpenter | 1980s: Continued commercial success
According to Warlock, Carpenter also shot the close-up footage of Michael's burning body shown at the film's conclusion, as well as the murder sequence of Anne Bruner, a teenage girl who is killed by Michael early in the film.
Halloween II (1981 film) | Post-production
Foley was born in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, New York, the son of a lawyer. He graduated from the State University of New York at Buffalo, a flagship school of the SUNY system, in 1978. He continued his education earning an M.F.A in film study and production from the University of Southern California.
James Foley (director) | Early life
Stated Poliquin, "I worked in tons of different departments (assistant directing, camera, grip, props, locations, etc.) and realized that what I really wanted to do was direct. Even if it was low budget I knew I'd enjoy that role more." He graduated with a BFA in New Media and Film from the University of Lethbridge in Alberta.
John Poliquin | Early life, education
The director of each film is indicated in parenthesis.
Martin Walsh (film editor) | Selected filmography
Carpenter was then in a legal dispute with "They Live" production company Alive Films regarding his contract. He had had several projects fall through: a film with Cher called "Pincushion", "Exorcist III", and a version of "Dracula". He was reluctant to make "Memoirs" at first. “When you have lots of money and lots of time, it's really grueling. I enjoy being an independent, and it’s not possible to be one in this situation. But then I thought. ‘Why not?’ I hadn’t done a movie for a long time.” The actor had to convince Warner Bros. that Carpenter, who they still saw as a horror director, could work well for the picture.
Memoirs of an Invisible Man (film) | John Carpenter
Historian Nicholas Rogers notes that film critics contend that Carpenter's direction and camera work made "Halloween" a "resounding success." Roger Ebert remarks, "It's easy to create violence on the screen, but it's hard to do it well. Carpenter is uncannily skilled, for example, at the use of foregrounds in his compositions, and everyone who likes thrillers knows that foregrounds are crucial . ... " The opening title, featuring a jack-o'-lantern placed against a black backdrop, sets the mood for the entire film. The camera slowly moves toward the jack-o'-lantern's left eye as the main title theme plays. After the camera fully closes in, the jack-o'-lantern's light dims and goes out.
Halloween (1978 film) | Aesthetic elements
Marshall was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. He was first inspired to become a film director when he saw "Raiders of the Lost Ark" (1981) at the age of eleven. He began making home movies using Super 8 mm film, and in 1989, he attended film school at Newcastle Polytechnic. In the next eight years, he worked as a freelance film editor.
Neil Marshall | Early life
Carpenter had just made "Dark Star", but no one wanted to hire him as a director, so he assumed he would make it in Hollywood as a screenwriter. The filmmaker went on to do other films with the intention of making "Escape" later. After the success of "Halloween", Avco-Embassy signed producer Debra Hill and him to a two-picture deal. The first film from this contract was "The Fog". Initially, the second film he was going to make to finish the contract was "The Philadelphia Experiment", but because of script-writing problems, Carpenter rejected it in favor of this project. However, Carpenter felt something was missing and recalls, "This was basically a straight action film.
Escape from New York | Pre-production
Bowers studied fine art at Chester School of Art and animation at West Surrey College of Art and Design. His first job was on "Who Framed Roger Rabbit", as an inbetweener, under director Richard Williams.
David Bowers (director) | Early life
However, director Roger Christian didn’t approach The Sender as a slasher-horror in the slightest, remarking that he wanted to make a film that was “more Bergman than Carpenter.” Christian was a two-time Academy Award-winning art director who had previously directed the critically acclaimed short films, "Black Angel" and "The Dollar Bottom". The Sender would be his first feature film as director. Several of his previous collaborators, including composer Trevor Jones, cinematographer Roger Pratt, and special effects supervisor Nick Allder, were retained by Christian for the film.
The Sender | Development
He was born in Aintree, Liverpool, on 24 July 1908.
Gordon Parry (film director) | Early life
Caird was born in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, to English parents George Bradford Caird, Oxford theologian and principal of Mansfield College, Oxford and Viola Mary Newport (born 1922 in Reigate, Surrey), poet and librarian. He lived in Montreal and attended Selwyn House School. His family moved back to England in 1959 to Oxford, where he attended Magdalen College School from 1959 to 1967. He studied acting at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School from 1967 to 1969. Caird worked as an actor and stage manager at various English repertory theatres and in London's West End before embarking on his directorial career at Contact Theatre, in Manchester in 1973.
John Caird (director) | Early years
, Carpenter was more involved with his music career than filmmaking, although he was involved in 2018's "Halloween" reboot.
John Carpenter | Film music and solo records
Titan's aim in the industry was to push projects through multiple forms of media. In conjunction with the game, a film version of "Psychopath" was also in the works. Carpenter was to direct the film and the game's cutscenes and character design. Since then, there has not been any further developments on the video game nor the film. During 2007, Rob Zombie produced and directed "Halloween", a re-imagining of Carpenter's 1978 film that resulted in a sequel two years later.
John Carpenter | 2000s: Semi-retirement
Carpenter is most widely known for his early work in horror and genre cinema and for his collaborations with directors James Cameron, McG, and Robert Luketic. His first major project as Director of Photography was the 1988 horror-comedy "". His work on the 1997 film "Titanic" earned him an Academy Award for Best Cinematography, an ASC Award for Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography in Theatrical Releases, a nomination for a BAFTA Award, as well as numerous other accolades.
Russell Carpenter | Career
Guleserian aspired to be a filmmaker from a young age. He worked as an ice cream truck driver before studying cinematography at college, first as an undergraduate at Columbia College Chicago and then graduate school at the AFI Conservatory. While studying, he spent his spare time "shooting short films for any director that would let me" to gain experience.
John Guleserian | Early life
During vacations he worked at the Williamstown Summer Theater in Massachusetts both in production and as an actor. In 1961, he was hired as a third assistant director on "The Comancheros", a film starring John Wayne and Lee Marvin, which was shot in the Monument Valley of Utah, the last film directed by Michael Curtiz. Wayne told Mankiewicz to remove his John F. Kennedy button.
Tom Mankiewicz | Early life and career
Filmography as director: Filmography as producer/creative contributor:
John Grierson | Filmography
Robert was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His directorial debut feature film "Redemption", in 2009. He is also slated to direct the upcoming feature films "Eminence Hill" and "Rhea".
Robert Conway (director) | Life and career
Thomas Lee Wallace (born September 6, 1949) is an American film producer, director, editor, and screenwriter. He is best known for his work in the horror genre, directing films such as "", "Fright Night Part 2" and the 1990 miniseries, "It". He is a long-time friend and collaborator of director John Carpenter, receiving his first credit as art director on Carpenter's directorial debut, "Dark Star". Along with Charles Bornstein, he edited both the original "Halloween" and "The Fog".
Tommy Lee Wallace | Introduction
Local television station WLVI also provided McCarthy with free access to hundreds of B-movies through its weekly science fiction and horror movie program "Creature Double Feature" McCarthy became fascinated with cinematography and by junior high was drawn to the films of John Carpenter, David Cronenberg, George Romero, John Waters and David Lynch. When he entered Brookline High, McCarthy struck up a friendship with future author and humorist John Hodgman. The two shared a love of weird films and co-edited the controversial magazine "Samizdat". Named after dissident underground literature in the Soviet Union, the friends used McCarthy's father's connections to access an industrial photocopier at Brookline's Town Hall and published the magazine for free.
Nicholas McCarthy (director) | Early life
Jim Mickle was born in Pottstown, Pennsylvania in 1979. Mickle was inspired to become a director after he saw "Army of Darkness". He attended New York University and graduated in 2002. He worked as a production assistant and grip on a series of films by first-time directors who had not gone to film school. The experiences were frustrating for him, and he described the films as vanity projects. Mickle prefers directing and editing to writing, and he is attracted to the flexibility and intensity of horror films.
Jim Mickle | Early life
His feature film directorial debut "That Night!" (1957) was nominated for two British Academy Film Awards.
John Newland | Early life and career
John Butler (born 4 July 1972) is an Irish IFTA award-nominated film director, screenwriter and novelist. His work includes television sketch show Your Bad Self, and movies "George", "Spaceman Three", "The Stag" and "Handsome Devil".
John Butler (director) | Introduction
Stephen Carpenter, born in Weatherford, Texas, and raised in Kansas City, Missouri, is an American writer, director, and cinematographer with nine films and two television works to his credit, and more in development. Carpenter has been writing since 7th grade. He graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles School of Theater, Film and Television. He lectures on writing and story structure at the University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts. His screenplays include "The Man", starring Samuel L. Jackson and Eugene Levy, "Blue Streak", starring Martin Lawrence, and others. He has written and directed several thrillers, including "Soul Survivors", starring Eliza Dushku and Casey Affleck.
Stephen Carpenter (writer) | Introduction
Starting in 1969, he did an array of theatrical films starting with "Heaven with a Gun" and other films like "The Break" and the cult classic "What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice?" In 1972, he directed the film "The Salzburg Connection", which starred Barry Newman and Anna Karina. In 1975, he directed the launch episode "", and other early episodes, of the Gerry Anderson live-action series "." He was the creator of the short-lived American science fiction television series "Man from Atlantis" in 1977 and the following year wrote the pilot episode for a comedy, "Zuma Beach "with "Halloween "director John Carpenter, although this was never commissioned as a series.
Lee H. Katzin | Career
He was also a member of the National Honor Society, a reporter for "The Civitan" (the school's newspaper), and an actor in the school's 1940 play, "What A Life". He graduated from St. John's College (Annapolis/Santa Fe) in Annapolis, Maryland, in 1944.
Jack Landau (director) | Early life
"It was going to be a long road from being a PA (production's assistant) to a director."
George Tillman Jr. | Early life
Rosenthal attempts to reproduce the "jump" scenes present in "Halloween", but does not film Myers on the periphery, which is where he appeared in many of the scenes of the original. Under Rosenthal's direction, Myers is the central feature of a majority of the scenes. Rosenthal also stated that he attempted to replicate the visual elements of the previous film "until we [the audience] get to the hospital ... Once we're in there, I got a certain freedom: long corridors, moody dark lighting, all of that." In an interview with Luke Ford, Rosenthal explains: The decision to include more gore and nudity in the sequel was not made by Rosenthal, who contends that it was Carpenter who chose to make the film much bloodier than the original.
Halloween II (1981 film) | Direction
He was classmates with screenwriter and film director Boaz Yakin. To his mother's "great disappointment," Cryer skipped college and went to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, England, for a summer short course in Shakespeare.
Jon Cryer | Early life