Originally an idea suggested by producer Irwin Yablans ( titled The Babysitter Murders ), who envisioned a film about babysitters being menaced by a stalker, Carpenter took the idea and another suggestion from Yablans that it take place during Halloween and developed a story.

" The film has often been cited as an allegory on the virtue of sexual purity and the danger of casual sex, although Carpenter has explained that this was not his intent: " It has been suggested that I was making some kind of moral statement.

The name had been suggested by Ezra Carpenter.

During the course of the third season, the new Robin discovers that he is the half-brother of his nemesis Guy of Gisbourne ( an idea suggested to Carpenter by the fact that both actors had blonde hair ).

" Despite her interest in music, Carpenter never considered performing publicly until, shortly after graduating from Taft, her father suggested that she perform at a local open-mike bar, a stressful experience for the shy Carpenter, who recalled, " I thought I was going to barf.

" Rob Gonsalves of eFilmCritic. com suggested that the film was symbolic of ' Carpenter at rock bottom.

On December 24, 1992, the station started stunting by having a character named " Cowboy Hugh Chardon " ( played by Dr. Don Carpenter ) play " Friends In Low Places " by Garth Brooks repeatedly ( for his good buddy Bobby Stalls in Birmingham ) and try to kill " The Fox " using various methods suggested by " listeners ".

Before the Randall endorsement, he used a Marshall JMP-1 preamp with a Marshall power amp, which was also suggested and given to him by Carpenter.

John Carpenter has suggested that the film inspired the idea of a featureless mask for the Michael Myers character in the slasher film series Halloween.

" In addition to shooting on location in St. Louis, Carpenter shot parts of the film in Los Angeles.

When it came to shooting in New York City, Carpenter managed to persuade federal officials to grant access to Liberty Island.

The professor of Germanic linguistics, William Carpenter based the study of Germanic languages on the methods of comparative linguistics that were being developed into a more scientific framework, than the traditional philological approach.

Carpenter refused to cast Bronson on the grounds that he was too old, and because he worried that he could lose directorial control over the picture with an experienced actor.

The film's setting proved to be a potential problem for Carpenter, who needed to create a decaying, semi-destroyed version of New York City on only a shoe-string budget.

Newsweek magazine commented on Carpenter, saying, " has a deeply ingrained B-movie sensibility-which is both his strength and limitation.

His directorial style and the use of natural, conversational dialogue in his films were cited a major influence on many noted filmmakers, including Robert Altman, John Carpenter, and Quentin Tarantino.

John stopped short of trying to actively enforce this charter on the native Irish kingdoms, but historian David Carpenter suspects that he might have done so, had the baronial conflict in England not intervened.

Realising that the company could not meet this level of demand, Brewster requested permission from Carpenter on 17 May 1818 for the device to be made by other manufacturers, to which he agreed.

* Ghosts of Mars ( 2001 ) – Director John Carpenter uses the planet as a science fiction setting for a remake of his earlier Assault on Precinct 13.

* Cinematographer Russell Carpenter would go on to work on such films as The Lawnmower Man, The Indian in the Cupboard, Titanic, Charlie's Angels ( and the sequel Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle ), Shallow Hal and Monster-in-Law.

In the second season when the characters are in 11th grade, Willow becomes more sure of herself, standing up to the conceited Cordelia Chase ( Charisma Carpenter ), and approaching Xander, on whom she has had a crush for years, although it is unrequited as Xander is in love with Buffy.

* Lant Carpenter was born in Kidderminster on 2 September 1780.

Robin Hardy gave input on the project, and original songs and music from the film were supervised by Gary Carpenter, the original music director.

Anthrax also worked on the soundtrack to the John Carpenter film, Ghosts of Mars, working with the director and other musicians rather than writing their own songs.

Later, in RFC 6214 released on 1 April 2011, and 13 years after the introduction of IPv6, Carpenter and Hinden published Adaptation of RFC 1149 for IPv6.

In 1980, she performed a medley of standards in a duet with Karen Carpenter on the Carpenters ' television program Music, Music, Music.

The film reportedly cost only $ 60, 000 and was difficult to make as both Carpenter and O ' Bannon completed the film by multitasking, with Carpenter doing the musical score as well as the writing, producing and directing, while O ' Bannon acted in the film and did the special effects ( which caught the attention of George Lucas who hired him to do work on the special effects for Star Wars ).

Carpenter has said that he considers Assault on Precinct 13 to have been his first real film because it was the first movie that he shot on a schedule.

Humphrey Carpenter in his 1977 biography relates that Tolkien owned a postcard entitled Der Berggeist (), and on the paper cover in which he kept it, he wrote " the origin of Gandalf ".

* They Live ( 1988 ), by John Carpenter — As Roddy Piper is trying on his new " sunglasses " that allow him to see the world as it is, he looks at an advertisement for Control Data Corporation and sees the word OBEY.

* Dark Star ( film ), a 1974 science fiction movie directed by John Carpenter

Carpenter was interested in creating two distinct looks for the movie.

Director John Carpenter decided to add the original scenes into the special edition release as an extra only: " After we screened the rough cut, we realized that the movie didn't really start until Snake got to New York.

Neal Moritz was to produce and Ken Nolan was to write the screenplay which would combine an original story for Plissken with the story from the 1981 movie, although Carpenter has hinted that the film might be a prequel.

The 1951 animated Disney movie Alice in Wonderland also featured several elements from Through the Looking-Glass, including the poems " Jabberwocky " and " The Walrus and the Carpenter ".

* Survive the Savage Sea ( TV movie ) ( 1992 ) – as " Jack Carpenter "

In 1979, John Carpenter began what was to be the first of several collaborations with actor Kurt Russell when he directed the TV movie Elvis.

Carpenter followed up the success of Halloween with The Fog ( 1980 ), a ghostly revenge tale ( co-written by Hill ) inspired by horror comics such as Tales from the Crypt and by The Crawling Eye, a 1958 movie about monsters hiding in clouds.

In order to make the movie more coherent and frightening, Carpenter shot additional footage that included a number of new scenes.

The movie was adapted by Anita Loos from a story by Horace B. Carpenter and was directed by John Emerson.

That same year, he reunited with his former Buffy the Vampire Slayer co-star Charisma Carpenter in the ABC Family TV movie Relative Chaos.

* Payday ( 1972 film ), a movie directed by Daryl Duke and written by Don Carpenter

Despite a lengthy and successful movie career, working with directors like Martin Scorsese and John Carpenter, Carradine is probably best known for portraying fraternity president " Lewis Skolnick " in the Revenge of the Nerds series of comedy films and the father, " Sam McGuire ", on the Disney Channel sitcom Lizzie McGuire.

In 1987, movie director Todd Haynes used songs by Richard and Karen in his movie Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story.

The movie was later pulled from distribution after Richard Carpenter won a court case involving song royalties ; Haynes had not obtained legal permission to use the Carpenters ' recordings.

On January 1, 1989, the similarly titled made-for-TV movie The Karen Carpenter Story aired on CBS with Cynthia Gibb in the title role.

( 2003 ), the situation is close to the style of the John Carpenter movie Escape from L. A .. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, all of United States ' pollution and criminals are sent to California ; the state decides to stop this and declares its independence as a land of freedom.

Director John Carpenter was disappointed that Richter did not get a proper screenwriting credit on the movie because of the ruling.

A single disc movie only DVD version was later released with the only special features being the Carpenter / Russell commentary and the theatrical trailer.

Charisma Carpenter had already worked with Holly Marie Combs in the movie ' See Jane Date.

Around this time Finck and then-bandmate Buckethead contributed to the soundtrack of the John Carpenter movie Ghosts of Mars, playing alongside members of thrash metal group Anthrax and guitar virtuoso Steve Vai.

Parker was portrayed by Pat Hingle in Elvis, the original 1979 made-for-television movie, produced by Dick Clark, directed by John Carpenter, and starring Kurt Russell.