John Carpenter may have retired from directing, but his influence lives on through a collection of unexpected auteurs ...

Few horror directors are as admired and beloved as John Carpenter ... The Fog, and Escape from New York), and it had tough competition from a more heartwarming film centered on an alien coming ...

Once “the fog” yields the more tangible threat ... his performance comes out just as glib and muggy as always. The first John Carpenter film that really feels like a John Carpenter film ...