John Carpenter at Hollywood Palladium

American filmmaker, screenwriter, musician, and composer John Carpenter is known for his cult classic films. Most commonly associated with horror, action and science fiction films of the 1970s and 1980s, Carpenter's most celebrated film and score is Halloween (1978). He is also known for directing Dark Star (1974), Assault on Precinct 13 (1976), The Thing (1982), Christine (1983), Big Trouble in Little China (1986), Prince of Darkness (1987), They Live (1988), and In the Mouth of Madness (1995). Carpenter is noted for composing or co-composing the majority of his films' music, and has released three studio albums: Lost Themes (2015), Lost Themes II (2016), and Anthology: Movie Themes 1974–1998 (2017). He won a Saturn Award for Best Music for the film Vampires (1998).