The following interview is taken from John Carpenter Collection, released now, and is reproduced with permisssion.
JC= JOHN CARPENTER
I= INTERVIEWER
JC:
Dark Star began as a student film when I was at the university of Southern California in 1970 and I was partnered with Dan O Bannon who is the production designer, editor and one of [...]

Just in time for Halloween we see the release of the John Carpenter Collection, a dvd set of the best of John Carpenters films. The set features the movies HALLOWEEN, THE THING, THE FOG, ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13, THEY LIVE, ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK, PRINCE OF DARKNESS. All of which are the John Carpenter versions [...]