Top 6 in Top 10 best movies inspired by director John Carpenter's filmmaking.
Trailer 1 of the movie The Hateful Eight
John Carpenter's The Thing (1982) was the direct inspiration for Quentin Tarantino when writing The Hateful Eight. Tarantino even went so far as to show the Carpenter classic to the entire cast, including Kurt Russell. Moreover, 2 films including The Thing and The Hateful Eight were both purposefully given excellent scores by Ennio Morricone.
A veteran, a bounty hunter, and his prisoners all stop at the isolated Minnie Tailor Camp to avoid an impending blizzard. There, they find others, but not everyone is what they think they are.