Assault on Precinct 13 (1976)
Mar 5, 2005Urban Siege
The second film from John Carpenter, a powerful and effective work about a handful of police and prisoners trapped in a police station at siege from an all-out assault by gang members outside
Charles Cyphers
Halloween (1978)
Dec 6, 2002Slasher Film
John Carpenter's all-time classic, the film that created the slasher film and has been much imitated, not to mention multiply sequelised and remade. None of the imitators however come anywhere near recapturing Carpenter's eerie spookiness
Someone’s Watching Me (1978)
Sep 23, 2007Stalker Psycho-Thriller
One of the lesser known John Carpenter films, a tv movie in which Lauren Hutton is stalked by a neighbour spying on her from the apartment building opposite
The Fog (1980)
Aug 25, 2002Vengeful Ghosts
John Carpenter’s immediate successor to Halloween is a suspenseful and scary ghost story about undead sailors descending on a small town in a fog bank, even if the narrative logic holding everything together is thin
Halloween II (1981)
Feb 1, 2002Slasher Film
The first sequel to Halloween, with Michael Myers pursuing Jamie Lee Curtis through a hospital. John Carpenter's suspense is replaced by slasher hackery but in retrospect this looks a lot better than the subsequent sequels
Hunter’s Blood (1986)
Nov 20, 2025Backwoods Brutality
A quite reasonable Backwoods Brutality item with a group who go hunting in backwoods Oklahoma but stir up the inbred poachers and end up being hunted themselves
Halloween Kills (2021)
Oct 23, 2021Slasher Film
Sequel to the 2018 reboot/sequel to Halloween from David Gordon Greene, this is more scrupulous about paying homage to the original and recapturing something of John Carpenter’s original stylism