The Hollywood Walk of Fame star will be announced Thursday in honor of John Carpenter, who has received the nickname “The Horror Master,” which directs films such as “The Thing,” “The Fog,” “Christine,” and “In the Mouth of Madness.”
“The Thing” castmates Kurt Russell and Keith David will speak to Carpenter at the 11:30am ceremony in front of the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel.
Anna Martinez, producer of Hollywood Walk of Fame, is the first time Russell and David have met at an event with Carpenter in 40 years.
Russell has also appeared in three films: Escape from New York, Escape from LA, Big Trouble in Little China, and Elvis, the TV movie.
He will also talk about Greg Nicotero, a highly acclaimed special make-up effect creator who worked with Carpenter on several films.
All the rituals of fame are streamed at walkoffame.com and can be viewed later at youtube.com/@@hwdwalkoffame.
This star is the 2,806th since the completion of the first 1,558 stars in 1961.
Born January 16, 1948 in Carthage, New York, he grew up in Bowling Green, Kentucky after his father got a job at Western Kentucky University.
While attending USC film school, Carpenter began working on “Dark Star.” It was a comedy short in science fiction, later expanded into feature films and released in theaters in 1975.
Carpenter described his second feature, “The Attack of School District 13,” in part to his idol, as a homage to the Howard Hawks, rethinking the Hawks’ 1959 western, “Rio Bravo,” in an urban setting.
Carpenter’s groundbreaking film was “Halloween,” which was made for $300,000 in 1978, making it the most profitable independent film of its time.
“Halloween” began Carpenter’s career as a composer. This includes four “Lost Theme” albums of non-soundtrack music, as well as two albums of his film music.
Carpenter will perform at a concert at Velasco in downtown Los Angeles on October 24-25, October 31st and November 1st.
Carpenter went outside the horror genre with films such as the 1984 science fiction love story “Starman” and the 1992 comedy drama “Memoirs of the Invisible Man.”
