No, John Carpenter has not been busy panning his own movies online: 'What the hell is a Letterboxd!?'

"It was a fake account," a rep for the legendary horror director confirms to EW.

John Carpenter isn't one to mince words while evaluating his own work — but he's not taking his thoughts to Letterboxd.

An account claiming to be from the legendary horror filmmaker surfaced on the movie-reviewing platform last week and quickly went viral for its candid diary entries on each of Carpenter's films. In addition to heaping praise on and sharing anecdotes about Carpenter's canonical classics like Halloween and The Thing, some of the reviews panned his less-beloved movies like Memoirs of an Invisible Man and Village of the Damned, while others defended later works that were largely dismissed by audiences like Ghosts of Mars and Vampires.

If all that seemed too good to be true, then your instincts are good, as Carpenter's publicist tells Entertainment Weekly that the now-deleted account was in no way connected to the filmmaker. "It was a fake account," the rep says.

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Carpenter also shut down the rumors by writing on his actual social media accounts, "What the hell is a Letterboxd!??"

The filmmaker primarily uses social media to promote his music, praise his favorite video games, and support the Golden State Warriors, so skeptical observers noted a clear disconnect in the tone of the debunked Letterboxd account, which had many more supposedly personal anecdotes and details about his movies.

It's not entirely implausible that a filmmaker of Carpenter's caliber would join Letterboxd, however. In the past two years, Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, Michael Mann, and have all adopted the platform. Younger directors like Sean Baker and Josh Trank also have thousands of followers on the site, and the latter went viral for trashing his maligned 2015 film Fantastic Four in a review.

Other prominent celebrity Letterboxd users include Ayo Edebiri, Sarah Sherman, Rachel Sennott, Christopher McQuarrie, Mike Flanagan, Paul Scheer, Hari Nef, Lee Unkrich, and Timothy Simons.

Carpenter has largely stepped back from directing since 2010's The Ward, spending much of the last decade focusing on music projects — he contributed to the soundtracks for David Gordon Green's Halloween sequel trilogy and the Firestarter remake.

Carpenter did helm an episode of John Carpenter's Suburban Screams last year, and said he didn't have to leave the comfort of his home to do so. "It was filmed in Prague, and I sat on my couch and directed it," he recalled at Texas Frightmare. "It was awesome."

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If you really want Carpenter's off-the-cuff thoughts about his work, his social media use stretches back more than a decade. In past tweets, Carpenter has said he's "been sworn to secrecy as to who is the Thing" at the conclusion of his 1982 film, asserted that that the idea of a "different version of HALLOWEEN where Michael dies" is "total bulls---," and noted that the 2011 Thing prequel makes "one improvement" on his version of the movie: "they have a babe, a very talented actress."

Read the original article on Entertainment Weekly.