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Probably the only Kentucky-born son-of-a-musician to win an Academy Award as a USC film student and redefine an entire film genre at the age of 29, the versatile and unpretentious John Carpenter is one of our favorite auteurs because he's unapologetically embraced the fantasy genre as writer-director-composer of some of modern cinema's most indelible flights of imagination, action, and terror.
While David Cronenberg fancies himself more William Burroughs than William Lustig, and Wes Craven endlessly whines over his desire to make dramas about violin proteges (even as he rakes in big bucks making sequels), Carpenter has never forgotten seeing "It Came From Outer Space" as a boy and becoming enchanted to the possibilities of science fiction and horror filmmaking. "When that meteorite blew up right in my face", Carpenter has confessed, "that got me sold on films of the fantastic. I knew then that this is what I had to do."
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