Darkness Surrounds Us
About The festival
Fright of your life
On October 25, 1978, Halloween was released. Michael Myers, to some, is just a man in a mask, while others see him as “Evil Personified.” Some may say Halloween paved the way for other thrillers, such as Nightmare on Elm Street and Friday the 13th. Since the first Halloween, there have been a number or sequels and remakes. The man behind the mask has been a costume for numerous individuals and topic of conversation in other movies.
This film festival is to commemorate the 41st anniversary of Halloween’s initial release date. Enjoy a thrill to all the evil this festival has to offer.
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The man that started the Halloween movie franchise
John Carpenter Movies
Captain Voyeur
Dark Star
Assault on Precinct 13 (1976)
Halloween (1978)
The Fog
Escape from New York
The Thing
Christine
Starman
Big Trouble in Little China
Prince of Darkness
They Live
Memoirs of an Invisible Man
In the Mouth of Madness
Village of the Damned
Escape from L.A.
Vampires
Ghosts of Mars
The Ward
John Howard Carpenter was born in Carthage, New York, to mother Milton Jean (Carter) and father Howard Ralph Carpenter. His family moved to Bowling Green, Kentucky, where his father, a professor, was head of the music department at Western Kentucky University. He attended Western Kentucky University and then USC film school in Los Angeles. He began making short films in 1962, and won an Academy Award for Best Live-Action Short Subject in 1970, for The Resurrection of Broncho Billy (1970), which he made while at USC. Carpenter formed a band in the mid-1970s called The Coupe de Villes, which included future directors Tommy Lee Wallace and Nick Castle. Since the 1970s, he has had numerous roles in the film industry including writer, actor, composer, producer, and director. After directing Dark Star (1974), he has helmed both classic horror films like Halloween (1978), The Fog (1980), and The Thing (1982), and noted sci-fi tales like Escape from New York (1981) and Starman (1984).