John Carpenter Isn’t Full-On Directing These Days, but He's Open to It

Peacock’s upcoming anthology Suburban Screams has an episode centering on the true-crime account of a woman’s experience with a phone stalker, which was interesting enough to draw in 75-year-old legendary horror filmmaker John Carpenter to direct an episode. He also produced the series and composed its theme.

While Carpenter is mostly retired, he looked back on his career in a conversation with the Los Angeles Times to promote Suburban Screams. “I’ve had the greatest life because all I wanted to do when I was a kid is be a movie director. And I got to be, and it was unbelievable. I prepared for it. I went to school for it. I’m lucky. A lot of people aren’t so lucky. So I have nothing to complain about,” he shared about his long career filled with inimitable genre staples like The Thing, They Live, and of course his original Halloween franchise.

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Here’s hoping we’ll get more Carpenter creations in the near future in any of the mediums that interest him, like his Storm King Comics imprint he’ll be promoting at this week’s New York Comic Con—we’ll take it!

John Carpenter’s Suburban Screams streams on Peacock starting this Friday.

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