Tracks Include The Staple Singers Skids Sailor Queen Darts The Hollies Robert Palmer Limmie & Family Cookin’ Terry Dactyl and the Dinosaurs Blue Swede Daryl Hall & John Oates John Carpenter John Howard Carpenter an American film director, screenwriter, and composer. Most commonly associated with horror, action, and science fiction films of the 1970s and 1980s, he is generally recognized as one of the greatest masters of the horror genre. At the 2019 Cannes Film Festival, the French Directors' Guild gave him the Golden Coach Award, lauding him as "a creative genius of raw, fantastic, and spectacular emotions".
Carpenter's early films included box office successes like Halloween , The Fog , Escape from New York , and Starman . His other productions came to be considered cult classics, and he has been acknowledged as an influential filmmaker. These include Dark Star , Assault on Precinct 13 (1976), The Thing (1982), Christine (1983) Billy Joel
