John Carpenter
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John Howard Carpenter is an American filmmaker, composer, and actor. Most commonly associated with horror, action, and science fiction films of the 1970s and 1980s, he is generally recognized as a mas
Carpenter in 2025
Carpenter (center) with Adrienne Barbeau, Janet Leigh, and Jamie Lee Curtis during the filming of The Fog. 1979
Carpenter in September 2001
Carpenter in October 2023
The Thing (1982 film)
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The Thing is a 1982 American science fiction horror film directed by John Carpenter from a screenplay by Bill Lancaster. Based on the 1938 John W. Campbell Jr. novella Who Goes There?, it tells the st
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…productions from the 1970s and the 1980s only later came to be considered cult classics; these include Dark Star (1974), Assault on Precinct 13 (1976), The Thing (1982), Christine (1983), Big Trouble in Little China (1986), Prince of Darkness (1987), They Live (1988), In the Mouth of Madness (1994), and Escape…
Writer Bill Lancaster in 1967
Actor Wilford Brimley in 2012. He was cast for his everyman persona which would allow audiences not to notice his absence from the story until the right time.
Principal photography began in August 1981 in Juneau, Alaska.