Directed by John Carpenter • 1974 • United States
Starring Brian Narelle, Dan O'Bannon, Cal Kuniholm

John Carpenter made his feature debut with this gleefully gonzo science-fiction satire, which began life as a student film and went on to become a cult classic. Onboard the titular spaceship, a t...

Directed by John Carpenter • 1976 • United States
Starring Austin Stoker, Darwin Joston, Laurie Zimmer

John Carpenter’s lean, mean second feature puts a gritty exploitation spin on Howard Hawks’s classic western RIO BRAVO, transposing the story to a soon-to-be-closed LA police station where a gr...

Directed by John Carpenter • 1980 • United States
Starring Jamie Lee Curtis, Adrienne Barbeau, Tom Atkins

Long-buried secrets come back to haunt a small town in this triumph of atmosphere and creeping unease from genre great John Carpenter. Drawing inspiration from the moody masterworks of Val L...

Directed by John Carpenter • 1981 • United States
Starring Kurt Russell, Lee Van Cleef, Isaac Hayes

It’s the year 1997 and the dystopian hellscape of Manhattan has been turned into a maximum security prison. When the U.S. president’s plane is hijacked and crash lands on the island, it’s up to ha...

Directed by John Carpenter • 1983 • United States
Starring Keith Gordon, John Stockwell, Alexandra Paul

A high-school nerd’s (Keith Gordon) possessive and possessed 1958 Plymouth Fury unleashes its jealousy in a diabolical killing rampage in this sleek horror joyride from genre master John Carpe...

Directed by John Carpenter • 1984 • United States
Starring Jeff Bridges, Karen Allen, Charles Martin Smith

Stepping outside the realm of horror-thrillers, director John Carpenter deftly blends science fiction and romance in this celestial odyssey. Jeff Bridges stars as an innocent alien who jour...

Directed by John Carpenter • 1986 • United States
Starring Kurt Russell, Kim Cattrall, Dennis Dun

John Carpenter goes kung fu with this breathlessly imaginative martial-arts spectacular in which truck-driving tough guy Jack Burton (Kurt Russell) must infiltrate the mystical, spirit-filled underw...

Directed by John Carpenter • 1987 • United States
Starring Donald Pleasence, Lisa Blount, Victor Wong

When a Catholic priest (Donald Pleasence) asks a physics professor (Victor Wong) and his research students to come to an old abandoned church, they don’t expect to find a large glass canister of...

Directed by John Carpenter • 1988 • United States
Starring Roddy Piper, Keith David, Meg Foster

The ultimate Reagan-era rebuttal, John Carpenter’s subversive science-fiction satire follows a drifter (pro-wrestling legend Roddy Piper) who discovers that America is being controlled by yuppie alien...

Directed by John Carpenter • 1992 • United States
Starring Chevy Chase, Daryl Hannah, Sam Neill

When a lab accident renders him invisible, stock analyst Nick Halloway (Chevy Chase) must go on the run from menacing CIA agent David Jenkins (Sam Neill), who is intent on using him as an espionage to...

Directed by John Carpenter • 1994 • United States
Starring Sam Neill, Julie Carmen, Jürgen Prochnow

Imagine a novel so overwhelmingly hypnotic, so tremendously horrifying that it paralyzes its audience with fear and turns its most sensible readers insane. When Sutter Cane, the author of this dis...

Directed by John Carpenter • 1996 • United States
Starring Kurt Russell, Stacy Keach, Steve Buscemi

In this wildly anarchic sequel to John Carpenter’s dystopian classic ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK, eye-patch-sporting antihero Snake Plissken (Kurt Russell) returns, this time on a kamikaze mission throug...

Directed by John Carpenter • 1998 • United States
Starring James Woods, Daniel Baldwin, Sheryl Lee

“Forget everything you’ve ever heard about vampires,” warns Jack Crow (James Woods), the leader of a relentless group of mercenary vampire slayers who set out across the New Mexico desert in pursui...