A star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame will be unveiled Thursday honoring John Carpenter, who has received the nickname `The Horror Master’ for directing such films as “The Thing,” “The Fog,” “Christine” and “In the Mouth of Madness.”
Kurt Russell and Keith David, castmates in “The Thing,” will join Carpenter in speaking at the 11:30 a.m. ceremony in front of the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel.
This will be the first time Russell and David will be seen together with Carpenter for an event for 40 years, Ana Martinez, producer of the Hollywood Walk of Fame, told City News Service.
Russell also appeared in three other films Carpenter directed — “Escape From New York,” “Escape From L.A.” and “Big Trouble in Little China” and the made-for-television movie, “Elvis,” which brought Russell an outstanding lead actor in a limited series or a special Emmy nomination.
Greg Nicotero, an acclaimed special make-up effects creator who has collaborated with Carpenter on several films, is also set to speak.
All Walk of Fame ceremonies are streamed on walkoffame.com, and can later be seen on youtube.com/@HwdWalkofFame.
The star is the 2,806th since the completion of the Walk of Fame in 1961 with the initial 1,558 stars.
Born Jan. 16, 1948 in Carthage, New York and raised in Bowling Green, Kentucky after his father got a job at Western Kentucky University.
While attending the USC’s School of Cinema, Carpenter began work on “Dark Star,” a science fiction comedy short that was later expanded into a feature length film and released theatrically in 1975.
Carpenter has described his second feature, “Assault on Precinct 13,” as partially an homage to his idol, Howard Hawks and a reimagining of Hawks’ 1959 Western, “Rio Bravo,” in an urban setting.
Carpenter’s breakthrough film was “Halloween,” made in 1978 for $300,000 and grossed more than became the most profitable independent movie of its time.
“Halloween,” began Carpenter’s career as a composer, which has included four “Lost Themes” albums of non-soundtrack music, as well as two albums of his film music.
Carpenter is set to perform in concerts at The Belasco in downtown Los Angeles, Oct. 24-25, Oct. 31 and Nov. 1.
Carpenter has ventured outside the horror genre with such films as the 1984 science fiction love story, “Starman,” and the 1992 comedy-drama, “Memoirs of an Invisible Man.”
