His films come characterized by minimalist lighting & photography, electrostatic cameras, & distinctive synthesized scores (typically self-composed). He describes himself when with been influenced by Alfred Hitchcock, Howard Hawks, and The Twilight Zone.

Biography
Although natural withinside Carthage, Just released York, Carpenter was raised in Bowling Green, Kentucky, he attended Western Kentucky University (where his father was director of a department of music) & afterwards the University of Southern California, where a student film he co-wrote using John Longenecker, A Resurrection of Broncho Billy, won an Academy Award for Live Action Short Film in 1970.

His number one major film inside the guiding role, Dark Star (1974), was a sci-fi comedy written by Dan O'Bannon (who later went on to write Alien, borrowing freely from much of Dark Star). His next film, Assault on Precinct 13 (1976), a pic influenced per films of Howard Hawks, was a super popular sale-budget thriller think of one of a better exploitation films of the Seventies. Halloween (1978) was a megahit in release & is considered to exist as a father of the slasher film genre, while a ghost story The Fog (1980) and sci-fi escapade Escape From New York (1981) quickly picked up the big cult audience besides when mainstream critical eclat.

His next film, The Thing (1982), was unfortunately freed at a equivalent instance as E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial and did not perform well commercially, marking the end of his purple patch at the box-office. A film was considered far as well dark & a results by Rob Bottin were considered too grotesque for the mainstream audience. Nevertheless a film itself has retrospectively gained supplementary & further critical appreciation, & is nowadays typically considered his better.

Below a pack professional failure of his large budget action comedy Big Trouble in Little China (1986) he struggled to get films financed. He returned to making lower berth budget films like Prince of Darkness (1987), a film influenced per BBC series Quatermass, and They Live (1988). Although the select few of the films from either this instance did pick higher a cult audience, Carpenter nevermore realised his mass-market likely. His recent career is characterized by the total of notable misfires: Escape From L.A. (1996) and Ghosts of Mars (2001) being two such examples which were both critically mauled and failures at the box-office.

Carpenter's reputatiin remains hard, his earliest films come considered classics & (when it use at times continued to perform swell on house streaming) many dollarfish to become cases of large budget remakes. Several horror/sci-fi/indie filmmakers use at times expressed admiration for Carpenter's function, from either Robert Rodriguez to Guillermo Del Toro to Quentin Tarantino to even a critically-praised Paul Thomas Anderson of Boogie Nights and Magnolia fame.

He is presently producing a remaking of his film The Fog. He besides recently directed an episode for the tv-series Masters of Horror.

Apocalypse Trilogy
The Thing Prince of Darkness In the Mouth of Madness

These are considered these trine films form section of an unofficial trilogy treating sustaining different "end of the world" scenarios. No connection otherwise between a films.

Trivia
A bit of of the films that John Carpenter was tied to at one point however at length left were Fatal Attraction, The Golden Child, No Way Out, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Deal of the Century, Armed & Dangerous, Firestarter and The Philadelphia Experiment.

Filmography as director
The Resurrection of Broncho Billy (1970) Dark Star (1974) Assault on Precinct 13 (1976) Halloween (1978) Elvis (1979, TV) The Fog (1980) Escape from New York (1981) The Thing (1982), remake of The Thing From Another World Christine (1983) Starman (1984) Big Trouble in Little China (1986) Prince of Darkness (1987) They Live (1988) Memoirs of an Invisible Man (1992) In the Mouth of Madness (1995) Village of the Damned (1995) Escape From L.A. (1996) Vampires (1998) Ghosts of Mars (2001)