John Carpenters The Thing is now a classic of sci-fi horror, but it has a lot to thank this other classic from 1958 for. The horror genre has a lot to thank John Carpenter for, especially the slasher genre. In 1978, Carpenter brought Halloween, which was key in developing the slasher genre in the 1980s. Carpenter continued his work in the horror genre throughout the 1980s and 1990s, with original stories like The Fog, adaptations of other works like Christine, and mixing other genres with horror as he did in They Live.
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