Screenplay: John Carpenter
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by John Carpenter. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Assault on Precinct 13
1976 · Movie · 90 min. · United States
Direction John Carpenter
Cast Austin Stoker · Darwin Joston · Laurie Zimmer · Martin West
Plot In Los Angeles, the street gangs unite and declare war to the police. Meanwhile, a father stops his car in a suburb and his daughter goes to an ice-cream truck...
6.9
7K votes
6.9
7K votes
Halloween
1978 · Movie · 93 min. · United States
Direction John Carpenter
Cast Jamie Lee Curtis · Donald Pleasence · Nancy Loomis · P.J. Soles
Plot In the small town of Haddonfield, Illinois, a teenage baby sitter tries to survive a Halloween night of relentless terror, during which a knife-wielding maniac goes after the town's hormonally...
6.7
26K votes
6.7
26K votes
They Live
1988 · Movie · 91 min. · United States
Direction John Carpenter
Cast Roddy Piper · Keith David · Meg Foster · John Lawrence
Plot Nada, a down-on-his-luck construction worker, discovers a pair of special sunglasses. Wearing them, he is able to see the world as it really is: people being bombarded by media and...
6.4
12K votes
6.4
12K votes
The Fog
1980 · Movie · 87 min. · United States
Direction John Carpenter
Cast Adrienne Barbeau · Tom Atkins · Jamie Lee Curtis · Hal Holbrook
Plot A weather beaten old fisherman tells an ancient tale of betrayal and death to fascinated children as they huddle together by their campfire. As a piece of driftwood in a...
6.2
8K votes
6.2
8K votes
Someone's Watching Me! (TV)
1978 · Movie · 97 min. · United States
Direction John Carpenter
Cast Lauren Hutton · David Birney · Adrienne Barbeau · Charles Cyphers
Plot A woman is slowly stalked to the brink of madness by a man watching her from the opposite tower block. Her attempts to get the police to take her seriously...
6.1
577 votes
6.1
577 votes
Escape from New York
1981 · Movie · 99 min. · United States
Direction John Carpenter
Cast Kurt Russell · Lee Van Cleef · Ernest Borgnine · Donald Pleasence
Plot In 1997, the island of Manhattan has been turned into the world's largest maximum security prison, a place where the worst of humanity is sent to rot. The U.S. Government...
6.1
28K votes
6.1
28K votes
Prince of Darkness
1987 · Movie · 110 min. · United States
Direction John Carpenter
Cast Jameson Parker · Donald Pleasence · Lisa Blount · Victor Wong
Plot A sinister secret has been kept in the basement of an abandoned Los Angeles church for many years. With the death of a priest belonging to a mysterious sect, another...
6.0
5K votes
6.0
5K votes
Assault on Precinct 13
2005 · Movie · 109 min. · United States
Direction Jean-François Richet
Cast Laurence Fishburne · Ethan Hawke · Maria Bello · Drea de Matteo
Plot In this retelling of John Carpenter's 70s B-grade classic, Laurence Fishburne plays a mobster being held in the soon-to-be-shut-down Precinct 13 on New Year's Eve. Ethan Hawke plays a captain...
5.7
13K votes
5.7
13K votes
Halloween
2007 · Movie · 109 min. · United States
Direction Rob Zombie
Cast Tyler Mane · Scout Taylor-Compton · Malcolm McDowell · Sheri Moon Zombie
Plot After his fateful Halloween night murder rampage in the quiet town of Haddonfield, Illinois years earlier, Michael Myers was incarcinated at the Smith's Grove Sanitarium maximum-security mental facility where he...
5.7
10K votes
5.7
10K votes
Eyes of Laura Mars
1978 · Movie · 103 min. · United States
Direction Irvin Kershner
Cast Faye Dunaway · Tommy Lee Jones · Brad Dourif · Raul Julia
Plot Suddenly Laura Mars can see through the eyes of a serial killer as he commits his crimes. She contacts the police and with the aid of a police detective, tries...
5.6
689 votes
5.6
689 votes
Halloween
2018 · Movie · 109 min. · United States
Direction David Gordon Green
Cast Jamie Lee Curtis · Nick Castle · Judy Greer · Miles Robbins
Plot Laurie Strode comes to her final confrontation with Michael Myers, the masked figure who has haunted her since she narrowly escaped his killing spree on Halloween night four decades ago.
5.6
9K votes
5.6
9K votes
Halloween II
1981 · Movie · 92 min. · United States
Direction Rick Rosenthal
Cast Jamie Lee Curtis · Donald Pleasence · Charles Cyphers · Jeffrey C. Kramer
Plot Picking up right where the last film ended, this sequel begins as Dr. Loomis (Donald Pleasence) pumps evil Mike Myers full of lead, then watches helplessly as the maniac killer...
5.3
4K votes
5.3
4K votes
Dark Star
1974 · Movie · 83 min. · United States
Direction John Carpenter
Cast Dan O'Bannon · Brian Narelle · Cal Kuniholm · Dre Pahich
Plot Low-budget story of four astronauts in deep space, whose mission is to destroy unstable planets in star systems which are to be colonised. The late Commander Powell is stored in...
5.3
2K votes
5.3
2K votes
Escape from L.A.
1996 · Movie · 102 min. · United States
Direction John Carpenter
Cast Kurt Russell · Stacy Keach · Steve Buscemi · Peter Fonda
5.1
12K votes
5.1
12K votes
Halloween Kills
2021 · Movie · 105 min. · United States
Direction David Gordon Green
Cast Jamie Lee Curtis · Judy Greer · Andi Matichak · Will Patton
Plot Sequel to "Halloween" (2018). The Halloween night when Michael Myers returned isn’t over yet. Minutes after Laurie Strode, her daughter Karen and granddaughter Allyson left masked monster Michael Myers caged...
5.0
4K votes
5.0
4K votes
Captain Voyeur (S)
1969 · Movie · 9 min. · United States
Direction John Carpenter
Cast Jerry Cox · Kathy Maynard · Victor Ponderosa · Jane Whiteridge
Plot A bored computer worker becomes fixated on a co-worker and follows her home.
5.0
100 votes
5.0
100 votes
Black Moon Rising
1986 · Movie · 100 min. · United States
Direction Harley Cokeliss
Cast Tommy Lee Jones · Linda Hamilton · Robert Vaughn · Richard Jaeckel
Plot A professional thief is hired by the FBI to steal a data tape from a company under investigation. The analysis of this tape, will prove the criminal activities of this...
4.6
184 votes
4.6
184 votes
Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers
1988 · Movie · 88 min. · United States
Direction Dwight H. Little
Cast Danielle Harris · Ellie Cornell · Donald Pleasence · Michael Pataki
Plot While being moved from a maximum security prison for the criminally insane, Michael regains consciousness and escapes. A trail of carnage leads Dr. Loomis, a psychiatrist all too familiar with...
4.6
2K votes
4.6
2K votes
Ghosts of Mars
2001 · Movie · 101 min. · United States
Direction John Carpenter
Cast Natasha Henstridge · Ice Cube · Jason Statham · Clea Duvall
Plot In a dusty frontier mining town on Mars, 175 years in the future, a small squad of police have been sent to transfer an extremely dangerous criminal, Desolation Williams, back...
4.5
9K votes
4.5
9K votes