John Carpenter

John Carpenter was born in 1948 in Carthage, in the State of New York, and grew up in Bowling Green, Kentucky, where his father headed the music department of the local university and encouraged him to learn the violin. He shot horror short films in eight millimetre before high school, spent two years at the university in his town, then entered the University of Southern California film school, where a student short film he worked on won an Oscar in 1970. He composes the music for most of his films himself and received an honorary award at Cannes in 2019.

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• CinemaThe ThingJohn Carpenter · 1982Cinema