This category contains both professional and fan pages dedicated to the movie director John Carpenter. Although usually associated with the production of such horror films as "Halloween" (1978), "The Fog" (1980) and "They Live" (1988), Carpenter has directed films in a wide variety of genres, including the action comedy "Big Trouble in Little China" (1986) and the SF romance "Starman" (1984). He was born in New York, USA in January 1948.