John Carpenter Interviews & Articles

Interviews

• JC Speaks to the JC Webpage
• DragonCon 98 Q&A
• An interview at the Eon Magazine website.- 1998
• An Interview at the Soundtrack.net website - 1998
• On-Line Interview From Dominion Web Site 1996
• On-Line Interview From America On-Line 1996
• Directors Guild Of America Interview (1996), mostly about Escape From LA.
• Boston Globe Interview (Dec 1984), primarily discussing Starman.
• Short interview from an issue of Sci-Fi Buzz discussing the problems with horror movies and audiences today.
• An article from the September 1996 issue of NME, interviewing Carpenter and Russel.
• The full, excellent and in depth SFX magazine interview, Sept 1996.
• A short interview with Carpenter from Empire, Sept 1996, discussing a few of his films.
• The Show, a Channel 4 chat show, Feb 1997.
• A recent JC interview that appeared in the UK Magazine Total Film in May
• A JC Interview discussing The Thing from the external site - "Outpost Of The Vampire - A Tribute To The Thing".
• An interview with JC that first appeared in Violet Veil magazine, at the time of In The Mouth Of Madness.
• A-Z Of Horror - Halloween Special I have made a Real Audio sample of the Halloween special section of Clive Barker's show on the BBC. This featured JC and Debra Hill discussing the show. You will need the real audio player (www.realaudio.com) to listen to this fantastic interview with the creators of Halloween.
• The Real Audio Intervew
• A text document describing the visuals. As this was a TV program the audio file is accompanied with this text document describing the on-screen visuals.
• A recent Entertainment Weekly ran a special on independent movies, with a section devoted to Halloween. The interview features Carpenter, Debra Hill, Jamie Lee Curtis, Cundey (the cinematographer) and Nick Castle (the shape).
• An interview with actor James Hong, the fantastic Lo-Pan in Big Trouble In Little China.
• French JC Interview - from the 1998 Fantasia Festival in Montreal, Canada.

• They Live, a ten-year anniversary retrospective by JDP Lafrance.
• Film Comment Sept 1996, Carpenter discusses his love of trashy movies.
• The Ghostmaker - A horror story short written by JC.
• Black Christmas - A comparison between Halloween and Black Christmas written by Kirk Hazen.

• Dark Star DVD - Kenneth Souza gives the lowdown on JCs earliest cinematic release.
• JC's Laserdiscs - An article discussing a few of JCs films available on laserdisc.