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

Halloween
John Carpenter · 1978 · Film

Halloween (OST)
John Carpenter · 1978 · Record

The Fog (OST)
John Carpenter · 1980 · Record

The Thing
John Carpenter · 1982 · Film
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