WHILE HE HASN’T directed a film since 2010’s The Ward — and has made only two in total since 1998 — John Carpenter’s DNA courses through modern movies, from the contemporary horror that mines his psychological insight into slashers and laymen alike or the way Kurt Russell’s befuddlement, as the conscripted protagonist in 1986’s Big Trouble in Little China, has become the default mode for blockbuster idols.
Source: I Don’t Worry About My Oeuvre: A Conversation with John Carpenter