Carpenter has admitted to being a fan of westerns, having grown up on the films of Howard Hanks and John Ford, as well as ...
from classic literature such as Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde to the beloved Hammer Horror movies of the 1950s and 60s.
Lust for a Vampire', a Hammer horror film from 1971, needed to replace an actor's eyeballs, because he couldn't act with them ...