Such is the legacy of John Carpenter, the patron saint of slasher flicks, who has embraced the title of horror master in recent years. Editor’s picks“No matter what movies he did, you could look at them and tell it’s a John Carpenter film,” Kurt Russell, star of The Thing, Escape From New York, and several other Carpenter films, says. But they didn’t have King’s visual artists to bring it to life (one drew the upper world around the cathedral; another drew the hell beneath it) or a John Carpenter story to tell. Cody Carpenter, Daniel Davies, and John Carpenter (from left) have recorded several albums under the band name John Carpenter. Sophie Gransard*“The fact that John is a musician and comes from a family with a serious music background is really important to who John Carpenter is as a filmmaker,” Russell says.