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John Carpenter

4 works in the index. Averaged across them, John Carpenter operates in THE ANALOG HAUNT territory — built on slow-burn dread and restraint over gore.

The body-of-work fingerprint

The mean of every scored work, which is a blunter instrument than any single title but says something a filmography cannot.

PACE OF FEAR 046 DREAD
THE THREAT 040 SUPERNATURAL
VISCERA 037 RESTRAINT
ERA BIAS 011 ANALOG
TONE 028 BLEAK
REALITY ANCHOR 033 GROUNDED

Widest range: VISCERA, spanning 70 points across the work. That is where John Carpenter varies most.

The work

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