what was John Carpenter the director of? The Thing, Halloween, Big Trouble in Little China, Escape from New York, They Live, Escape from L.A., Christine, The Fog, Ghosts of Mars, Vampires, In the Mouth of Madness, The Ward, Starman, Assault on Precinct 13, Prince of Darkness, Village of the Damned, Memoirs of an Invisible Man, Dark Star, Body Bags, Elvis, Someone's Watching Me!