One-Night-Only Event Marks Carpenter’s Return to the Stage, Streaming Live Worldwide on Halloween Night
His films helped define modern horror. His music still haunts your dreams. This Halloween, legendary filmmaker and composer John Carpenter will perform live in Los Angeles, broadcast worldwide via livestream beginning at 11 p.m. ET/8 p.m. PT on Friday, October 31, 2025. Details on how to watch can be found at theofficialjohncarpenter.com.
JOHN CARPENTER LIVE: HALLOWEEN FROM LOS ANGELES will be streamed live from Downtown L.A. Fans everywhere will be able to experience Carpenter performing his most iconic themes and fan favorites on Halloween night the way they were meant to be heard. This fall 2025 mini-tour marks Carpenter’s first public performances since 2018.
“I’ve been setting my nightmares, dreams, and visions to music for a very long time,” said Carpenter, who has composed scores for more than 20 films and released four albums of Lost Themes. “Partnering with Bloody Disgusting and Veeps lets us share that experience beyond Los Angeles and New York, so music and horror fans everywhere can feel it live, loud, and in real time this Halloween.”
The Halloween performance will feature Carpenter onstage with longtime collaborators Cody Carpenter and Daniel Davies.
“Fans come first at Bloody Disgusting,” said Michael Roffman, Executive Director of Business Development. “There is no better Halloween treat for our family than seeing John Carpenter live, on a Friday night, on All Hallows Eve.”
Ticket access for the livestream will be available to fans globally on VEEPS.com, and Screambox subscribers in the U.S. can stream the concert live at 8pm PDT. This marks the first live streaming event available on Screambox – powered by Bloody Disgusting, the horror division of Cineverse (Nasdaq: CNVS).
JOHN CARPENTER LIVE: HALLOWEEN FROM LOS ANGELES is produced by Storm King Productions, the production company founded and led by Sandy King in association with Bloody Disgusting and VEEPS.com, a Live Nation company.
For full details and livestream access information, visit http://theofficialjohncarpenter.com
ABOUT JOHN CARPENTER
As director, writer, producer and composer, John Carpenter has shaped the language of genre cinema for nearly five decades, beginning with his 1978 breakthrough, Halloween. His filmography includes The Thing, The Fog, Christine, In the Mouth of Madness, Assault on Precinct 13, Escape from New York, Escape from L.A., the Oscar®-nominated Starman, Big Trouble in Little China, Village of the Damned, Vampires, Memoirs of an Invisible Man, Ghosts of Mars and The Ward.
For television, Carpenter received the Cable ACE Award for writing the HBO film El Diablo, and directed the acclaimed, Emmy®-winning Elvis, starring Kurt Russell. With Tobe Hooper, he co-directed Showtime’s Body Bags, and most recently created, produced and directed the Peacock docu-horror series John Carpenter’s Suburban Screams.
As a composer and recording artist, Carpenter helped define the sound of modern horror with his minimalist, synth-driven scores. In addition to his classic film themes, he has released multiple studio projects, including the Lost Themes albums and the Anthology recordings collecting his most celebrated score work.
Alongside his wife and creative partner Sandy King, Carpenter is also the co-founder of Storm King Comics, an award-winning line of comic books and graphic novels.
Carpenter is the recipient of numerous career honors, including the Le Carrosse d’Or (Golden Coach) from the French Directors’ Guild at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival; lifetime achievement recognition from the Bram Stoker Awards, the Online Film Critics Society, and the Saturn Awards’ George Pal Memorial Award. He is being honored in 2025 with a lifetime achievement award from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, and for the first time in his career will receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Born in Carthage, New York and raised in Bowling Green, Kentucky, Carpenter attended the University of Southern California School of Cinema, where he directed his first theatrically released feature, the 1975 sci-fi film Dark Star.