John Carpenter Asks “What The Hell Is A Letterboxd” After Team Debunks “Fake Account”

Glenn Garner
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Nobody ask John Carpenter to list his Letterboxd top four.

The legendary horror director was only recently introduced to the popular moviegoers’ social media platform after his team debunked a Carpenter impersonator who had some fun in the diary entries of some of his films.

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“What the hell is a Letterboxd!??” wrote Carpenter on his actual X account after his rep told Entertainment Weekly of the Letterboxd profile: “It was a fake account.”

Launching in 2011, Letterboxd has gained massive popularity among moviegoers since the COVID-19 pandemic, allowing users to log, rate and review the films they watch.

While the fake account, which has since been taken down, praised such Carpenter classics as Halloween (1978) and The Thing (1982), it also shared some brutally honest reviews of other films, like one about his 1992 sci-fi comedy Memoirs of an Invisible Man. “I f—ing hate this pile of s— and want every copy burned,” they wrote.

The cinephile also left a colorful review for Halloween II (1981) as Carpenter, who co-wrote but did not return to direct the sequel.

“They paid me more money than I had ever seen to write a sequel to a film that did not need one,” the post recounted. “I took the check and spent it on beers to get me drunk enough to plow through this crap. I looked at the final script, which took a whopping 2 days to write, and said ‘wow, now that’s a piece of s—.’ And it was. I had faith in [director] Rick Rosenthal and he did not deliver. I suppose I expected him to be a miracle worker and nobody could’ve made this work. I don’t regret hiring him.”

Carpenter has mostly stepped back from Hollywood after directing 2010’s The Ward, having since focused on music. He released his debut standalone album Lost Themes in 2015 after also composing the soundtracks for many of his films.

After serving as an EP on Blumhouse‘s Halloween sequel trilogy (2018-’22), Carpenter helmed Peacock‘s six-episode unscripted horror anthology series John Carpenter’s Suburban Screams last October.

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