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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 recent Brazilian political thriller Bacurau to the über-stylish movies of Bertrand Bonello, who c...

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 atmospheres of dread and suspense by practically unquantifiable levels; try to imagine “Halloween�...

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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, brooding synths and grinding basslines propelling each track - but there’s a shift to modernity too. Da...

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. So the budding filmmaker — whose favorite music was the Stones and the Beatles, though he loved ...