This late '90s John Carpenter movie isn't as great as The Thing or Halloween, but it's a ton of fun, nonetheless.

What is John Carpenter's Vampires? One of the final three films in Carpenter's filmography as a director, Vampires is adapted from a novel by John Steakley, with a story assembled by Carpenter from ...

Thomas Ian Griffith pulls off the impressive feat of being simultaneously elegant, graceful, and menacing as vampire den master Jan Valek. His disposing of mortals, including many of Crow's team, is ...

The typical trajectory of John Carpenter movies goes something like this: mixed to negative box office, mixed to negative ...

Then along came a studio pitch for an action-horror flick inspired by Vampire$, a 1990 novel authored by the late John Steakley. Carpenter cobbled prized elements from a pair of competing screenplays ...

Vampire movies have been reinvented for decades, but the past 50 years have shown some of the best examples of vampire cinema ...

Though John Carpenter is an icon to genre film enthusiasts, the commercial viability of his output has always been ...

Those are the ones that follow. They’re not golden eggs in Carpenter’s oeuvre, but they’re not lumps of coal, either. A flawed but underrated action-horror movie, Ghosts of Mars unsurprisingly bombed ...

John Carpenter got help from some very unlikely sources when writing the theme song to the first 'Halloween' movie.

Freelance writer, living the dream, mostly fuelled by coffee. They Live isn’t Carpenter’s best, but it may be his most important. The 1988 film feels less like fiction and more like prophecy today.

If you’re looking for something different for your Halloween party this year, look no further than the 1985 Tobe Hooper film ...