John Carpenter and Kurt Russell made 4 films together, averaging 7.05, 0.43 above their career marks. The best is The Thing at 8.2.

Films together

1981 to 1996

Average together

7.05

4 rated, weighted 7.10

Lift

+0.43

apart 6.62

Best together

8.2

The Thing

Apart against together+0.43 lift

6.61

6.63

Other pairings

Their other regulars

John Carpenter with

Apart 6.62Together 7.05

Lift is the average of their films together minus the mean of their two career averages.

Both careers by IMDb ratingJohn CarpenterKurt RussellTogether

Dot size shows IMDb votes; lines are rolling five-film averages. Films with fewer than 1,000 votes are left out.

Kurt Russell in the top row

John Carpenter's regulars

	Assault on Precin… '76	Halloween '78	The Fog '80	Escape from New Y… '81	The Thing '82	Big Trouble in Li… '86	Prince of Darkness '87	They Live '88	Memoirs of an Inv… '92	In the Mouth of M… '94	Escape from L.A. '96
Kurt Russell
Donald Pleasence

Each column is a film in release order. Filled squares mark who was in it, colored by the film's rating.

Films with John Carpenter and Kurt Russell

Escape from New York	1981	7.1	176K	Director, Writer, Composer	as Snake Plissken
The Thing	1982	8.2	537K	Director	as MacReady
Big Trouble in Little China	1986	7.2	170K	Director, Composer	as Jack Burton
Escape from L.A.	1996	5.7	87,060	Composer, Director, Writer	as Snake Plissken, Producer, Writer