Captain Voyeur

1969 American film
  • 1969 (1969)
Running time
7 minutesCountryUnited States

Captain Voyeur (1969) was the first short film by director John Carpenter while a student at USC Cinema. The 7-minute film is about a bored computer worker who becomes fixated on a woman at work and follows her back to her home. The film remained in the USC's Hugh M. Hefner Moving Image Archive until 2011, when it was rediscovered by archivist Dino Everett.[1] The film is notable because it includes several elements that would appear in Carpenter's later horror film, Halloween. Everett says that the similarities include a striking resemblance between the lead actresses.

The film was selected in 2011 for preservation by the National Film Preservation Foundation because of its historical significance in showing Carpenter's development as a filmmaker.[2]

References

  1. ^ Barnes, Mike (October 26, 2011). "'Halloween' Director John Carpenter's First Student Film Unearthed". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on October 28, 2011. Retrieved October 30, 2011.
  2. ^ "National Film Preservation Foundation: 2011-10-26 Summer Grants". Filmpreservation.org. October 26, 2011. Retrieved October 30, 2011.

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John Carpenter
Filmography
Directed
  • Captain Voyeur (1969, short)
  • Dark Star (1974)
  • Assault on Precinct 13 (1976)
  • Halloween (1978)
  • Someone's Watching Me! (1978, TV)
  • Elvis (1979, TV)
  • The Fog (1980)
  • Escape from New York (1981)
  • The Thing (1982)
  • Christine (1983)
  • Starman (1984)
  • Big Trouble in Little China (1986)
  • Prince of Darkness (1987)
  • They Live (1988)
  • Memoirs of an Invisible Man (1992)
  • Body Bags (1993, TV)
  • In the Mouth of Madness (1994)
  • Village of the Damned (1995)
  • Escape from L.A. (1996)
  • Vampires (1998)
  • Ghosts of Mars (2001)
  • "Cigarette Burns" (2005, TV)
  • "Pro-Life" (2006, TV)
  • The Ward (2010)
Written only
Produced only
  • Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982)
  • The Fog (2005)
Discography
Albums
EPs
Scores and
soundtracks
  • Halloween (1979)
  • Dark Star (1980)
  • Escape from New York (1981)
  • Halloween II (1981)
  • Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982)
  • The Fog (1984)
  • Big Trouble in Little China (1986)
  • Prince of Darkness (1987)
  • They Live (1988)
  • Christine (1989)
  • Body Bags (1993)
  • In the Mouth of Madness (1995)
  • Village of the Damned (1995)
  • Escape from L.A. (1996)
  • Vampires (1998)
  • Ghosts of Mars (2001)
  • Assault on Precinct 13 (2003)
  • Halloween (2018)
  • Halloween Kills (2021)
  • Studio 666 (2022)
  • Firestarter (2022)
  • Halloween Ends (2022)
  • Death of a Unicorn (TBA)
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