John Carpenter says he had no qualms about dropping ... "I knew what I was doing," the director of horror classics like 1978’s "Halloween" and 1982’s "The Thing" told The Associated Press ...

John Carpenter made it pretty simple for horror neophytes of the future: If you want to watch a Halloween-themed movie, check out the one called Halloween! (In fact, there aren’t that many ...

Halloween has become something greater than John Carpenter and Debra Hill ever imagined when they sat down to write their proto-slasher entry in the late ’70s, but the trouble is no satisfying ...

The season of All Hallows Eve has once again returned the Halloween franchise to theaters ... Although the original is the only John Carpenter-directed installment in the (coincidentally) 13 ...

In opting to jettison all but the original film as canon, director David Gordon Green made an early choice to focus down his Halloween trilogy on the essentials of what made John Carpenter’s ...

We may earn a commission from links on this page. John Carpenter’s horror classic Halloween practically invented the slasher film genre when it was released in 1978. And now the master of ...