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Bandcamp / Buy For years, John Carpenter was thought of more like a session musician than a serious artist—a slick and sturdy genre craftsman, more of a cult icon than a name brand. That’s all changed in the last decade as he’s become thoroughly deified as the untouchable and exalted Master of Horror, and without even returning to the director’s chair. Carpenter’s shadow falls over much contemporary American genre cinema and extends internationally too, from the r...

An unrivaled master of the macabre, John Carpenter is best known as the man behind horror classics like “Halloween,” “The Thing,” and “Assault of Precinct 13.” Rightly hailed as masterpieces on the strengths of their sharply unnerving stories and muscular direction, Carpenter’s best films—also including “Escape from New York” and “They Live!”—benefit from his pioneering work as a composer of electronic music.  The adventurous synthscapes of these films heighten their ...

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Reviews / / 05 · 02 · 2021 Sadly it’s been a good while since we’ve seen horror maestro John Carpenter behind the camera, but luckily he’s had something of a renaissance through his score work. Working with Sacred Bones Records, his son Cody and godson Daniel, Carpenter has found new life as a gigging musician, creating sinister soundscapes that wouldn’t feel out of place on his 80s filmography. This third volume fits perfectly in with his previous work, brood...

Rolling Stone John Carpenter’s ‘Lost Themes III’ Scares Up New Thrills The self-proclaimed Horror Master defends his title with 10 new songs in search of corpses to haunt By Sophie Gransard* Assault on Precinct 13 and Halloween, he wrote and recorded the scores himself almost as an afterthought because he had to: there was no budget for a composer. Here he had these hair-raising, suspenseful stories with murderers wending through darkness, but it all happened in silence...

How John Carpenter found a second home in rock music John Carpenter made his name as horror’s most sought-after composer, leaving an indelible mark on the world of rock music. Now, he’s part of the scene… Words: Hannah May Kilroy Few filmmakers have had such an impact on the music world as John Carpenter. With his cult classics of the ​’70s and ​’80s like Halloween and The Fog, the director-composer became a master of big screen horror. But it wasn’t just his movies that ma...

December 15, 2020 4:24 pm Back in the summer, the creative team behind Glastonbury Festival’s Shangri-La launched the “world’s biggest” music and arts festival in virtual reality (VR). Following on from the success of the two-day event, which was called Lost Horizon, the team has since announced a collection of new VR gigs which are taking place in the run up to the end of the year. A series of four-hour VR events have been scheduled in December, with the team working to create bespok...