Though it came after his wonderfully loopy Dan O’Bannon collaboration Dark Star, John Carpenter ... When Carpenter made Halloween in 1978, he fully intended to make the kind of movie that ...

Compare that to the heated, loaded discord of the remake, and how DeMonaco indulges in othering cliches: John Leguizamo ... mistakes. Carpenter knew we didn’t need all that. He trusted the ...

While still in school, he co-wrote the short film ... Continuing to create horror and sci-fi films with his personal flair, Carpenter completed Vampires in 1998. The film garnered him his second ...