John Howard Carpenter (born January 16, 1948) is an American film director,… Read Full Bio ↴John Howard Carpenter (born January 16, 1948) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, editor, and composer. Although Carpenter has worked in numerous film genres, he's most commonly associated with horror and science fiction films from the 70s and 80s. He particularly achieved international success with the thriller movies 'Halloween' (1978) and 'Escape from New York' (1981).
Some of the films in Carpenter's career have been critical and commercial failures, with two notable exceptions mentioned above. Yet his soundtrack work has received much praise, bringing comparisons with contemporary dark electronic music. As well, many of his works from the 70s and the 80s that initially had mixed reviews such as 'Dark Star' (1974), 'Assault on Precinct 13' (1976), 'The Thing' (1982), 'Starman' (1984), 'Big Trouble in Little China' (1986), and 'They Live' (1988) have since been seen as cult classics, and Carpenter has been acknowledged as an influential filmmaker by many both in and out of the industry. His latest musical release, an album titled 'Lost Themes', came out in early 2015.
Some of the films in Carpenter's career have been critical and commercial failures, with two notable exceptions mentioned above. Yet his soundtrack work has received much praise, bringing comparisons with contemporary dark electronic music. As well, many of his works from the 70s and the 80s that initially had mixed reviews such as 'Dark Star' (1974), 'Assault on Precinct 13' (1976), 'The Thing' (1982), 'Starman' (1984), 'Big Trouble in Little China' (1986), and 'They Live' (1988) have since been seen as cult classics, and Carpenter has been acknowledged as an influential filmmaker by many both in and out of the industry. His latest musical release, an album titled 'Lost Themes', came out in early 2015.
The Windows!
John Carpenter Lyrics
We have lyrics for these tracks by John Carpenter:
Everyone's Coming to New York To the cop With a gun The Big Apple is plenty of…
It It came upon the midnight clear That glorious song of old Fr…
Main Theme If on every ocean the ship is a throne And…
Night Woa oh, Woa oh How can I show her all of…
The Night is Young Woa oh, Woa oh How can I show her all of…
The Shape Sometimes I'm an idiot Many of you know that by now Sometime…
This is Not a Dream This is not a dream. Not a dream. We are using your…
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RyanaldotheRaver94
john carpenter was really on to something with his movies, he is one of my favorite movie directors for sure.
AaronBank
Never seen and felt before someone to perform such a synthesis of a tense scene followed by colorful music or in other hand perfect music reflection on a tense scene BRAVO!!!!
Commanderf6
Possibly the greatest film of all time.
Commanderf6
I get chills just listening to this...
A Normal Band
This is incredible.
Nicolas F. Costoglou
I love it, it´s pumping, intense and it's awesome to listen to, even if you aren´t in a fight for your life ^^
Mister RON!
This was a pretty intense scene, considering it was made clear ammo was very limited.
syncrow76
Maybe they partly used real ammo and aimed out the broken windows... ;-D
Phoenix RQ
this entire soundtrack could be used for a DOS strategy game
Sean Metro
The hardest movie score ever!!!!