Movies directed by John Carpenter

• Assault on Precinct 13

  I have watched this movie once. This was on 21st October 2021.

  5

  An unlikely partnership between a Highway Patrol Officer, two criminals and a station secretary is formed to defend a defunct Los Angeles precinct office against a siege by a bloodthirsty street gang.

• Big Trouble in Little China

  I have watched this movie once. This was on 13th September 2015.

  6

  An All-American trucker gets dragged into a centuries-old mystical battle in Chinatown.

• Christine

  I have watched this movie once. This was on 7th December 2007.

  6

  A nerdish boy buys a strange car with a evil mind of its own and his nature starts to change to reflect it.

• Dark Star

  I have watched this movie once. This was on 2nd June 2007.

  4

  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 deep freeze, where he is still able to offer advice. As their mission nears completion, they must cope with a runaway alien which resembles a beach-ball, faulty computer systems, and a "smart bomb" who thinks it is God.

• Escape from New York

  I have watched this movie once. This was on 11th October 2021.

  5

  In 1997, when the U.S. president crashes into Manhattan, now a giant maximum security prison, a convicted bank robber is sent in to rescue him.

• Halloween

  I have watched this movie once. This was on 1st October 2021.

  8

  Fifteen years after murdering his sister on Halloween night 1963, Michael Myers escapes from a mental hospital and returns to the small town of Haddonfield, Illinois to kill again.

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• The Fog

  I have watched this movie once. This was on 18th November 2007.

  5

  A Northern California fishing town, built 100 years ago over an old leper colony, is the target for revenge by a killer fog containing zombie-like ghosts seeking revenge for their deaths.

• The Thing

  I have watched this movie twice. The first time was 24th December 2007 the last time on 15th September 2009.

  8

  Scientists in the Antarctic are confronted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of the people that it kills.

• The Ward

  I have watched this movie once. This was on 24th January 2011.

  5

  A thriller centered on an institutionalized young woman who becomes terrorized by a ghost.

• They Live!

  I have watched this movie once. This was on 6th December 2009.

  5

  A drifter discovers a pair of sunglasses that allow him to wake up to the fact that aliens have taken over the Earth.