John Carpenter

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q95008: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by Wikidata joins them to Starman, which Starman with Katey Rich credits them on.

Counted as writer. The films the hosts said they wrote, which the two lists below run through too: unnamed Carpenter films. Count them as director (9 films), composer (0 films) instead.

Draws on

What the speakers say they, or a film of theirs, drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

No line says they, or a film of theirs, drew on anything.

Drawn on by

What the speakers say drew on them or a film of theirs, marked the same way.

Resident Evil (2026): 1 line

  1. lineage (influence) · them, directly: John Carpenter ⇒ Resident Evil (the host's read). Carpenter looms over the movie; it sits in a lineage with Romero, 28 Days Later, Alien, Cronenberg.
    “It's very obvious the way that Carpenter looms over a movie like this.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:43:16 · Chris Ryan (0.60 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Directing (16) everyone in directing

Writing (1) everyone in writing

Music (1) everyone in music

Other (1) everyone in other

What was said about them, by kind

career (1)

  1. career (career): Kurt Russell → John Carpenter. With Carpenter failing, Russell had no one to prop him up in the late 90s.
    “Carpenter is fucking wiping out, so he can't be there to prop him up anymore.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 0:49:22 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

contrast (2)

  1. contrast (contrast): Starman → John Carpenter. Starman is one of the Carpenter movies he did not score; its synthy score is more emotional than his usual.
    “this is one of the Carpenter movies that he did not score.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Starman with Katey Rich · 1:17:32 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. contrast (contrast): Jordan Peele → John Carpenter. Peele, unlike Carpenter, won't stay in horror and sci-fi forever.
    “They're not the John Carpenter.”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Best Horror Movies of the Decade | The Big Picture · 0:07:34 · unknown (Alexander or Karaszewski) (0.40 sure it was them)

industry (1)

  1. industry (industry): John Carpenter → RoboCop. Carpenter got better at accepting executive-producer money on remakes of his ideas, while Verhoeven gets no checks.
    “I will happily be a nominal, stupid executive producer or whatever if you pay me.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 1:07:21 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

lineage (2)

  1. lineage (influence): Resident Evil → John Carpenter. Carpenter looms over the movie; it sits in a lineage with Romero, 28 Days Later, Alien, Cronenberg.
    “It's very obvious the way that Carpenter looms over a movie like this.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:43:16 · Chris Ryan (0.60 sure it was them)
  2. lineage (lineage): It Follows → John Carpenter. Chris compares It Follows to Carpenter, though he knows Mitchell tired of that comparison.
    “I apologize for comparing this to John Carpenter”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Best Horror Movies of the Decade | The Big Picture · 0:25:48 · Chris Ryan (0.85 sure it was them)

people (1)

  1. people (people): John Carpenter → Halloween. Carpenter told the speaker he did not know what a 'final girl' was, until told it came from a Carol Clover essay.
    “I don't know what that is.”
    The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ With Gillian Anderson, Hannah Einbinder, and Jane Schoenbrun! · 1:01:42 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)

programming (1)

  1. programming (programming): John Carpenter → Danny DeVito. Carpenter win means 18 weeks of scheduling; DeVito means about 6 weeks, leaving room for more miniseries.
    “Some people want someone like Carpenter to win so they can control 18 weeks of our scheduling.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · March Madness 2021 Recap - Round 2 · 0:26:04 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

unmapped (2)

  1. unmapped (falling-out): Dean Cundy → John Carpenter. Carpenter said they had a parting of ways over attitude problems, while praising Cundy's work from Halloween through The Thing.
    “But before we could ever work together again, we would have to clear up some attitude problems.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Starman with Katey Rich · 1:32:06 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. unmapped (output comp): Zach Cregger → John Carpenter. Twelve 87-minute Cregger films would feel like when Carpenter put out a movie every 18 months.
    “What we imagine it was like to be like our age when Carpenter was putting out a movie every 18 months.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 1:16:03 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)

verdict (1)

  1. verdict (verdict): John Carpenter → Danny DeVito. Carpenter, the presumed front-runner, faces DeVito, the toughest opponent he could draw.
    “DeVito is arguably one of the toughest people he could go up against.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · March Madness 2021 Recap - Round 2 · 0:25:32 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about John Carpenter: Drew McWeeny's story: asked his favorite Carpenter movie, McWeeny said Starman and Carpenter said 'ah, a romantic'; Carpenter tests fans for being softies.
    “and Carpenter smiled and said, ah, a romantic.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Starman with Katey Rich · 0:10:32 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about John Carpenter: Carpenter had never heard of the final girl; his main interest outside his own movies was NBA basketball.
    “He was a great basketball fan.”
    The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ With Gillian Anderson, Hannah Einbinder, and Jane Schoenbrun! · 1:02:03 · Adam Nayman (0.50 sure it was them)