Watch John Carpenter's Retro Futurist Noir Music Video - "Night"

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John Carpenter, the legendary director of Halloween, They Live, and Escape From New York, stars in a new music video for a song called "Night." It's part of an album he released called Lost Themes. 

Carpenter didn't direct the video, but the visuals pay homage to the director's past work. The music itself is classic Carpenter, and will easily remind you of the musical scares that he wrote for his films.

The video was directed by Gavin Hignight and Ben Verhulst, and this is what they had to say about it:

"Upon hearing NIGHT by John Carpenter my head was instantly filled with these nighttime highway road dreamscapes. Someone or something, haunted, traveling the road alone in the late hours.

"Our goal was to take that feeling and put it into a video that paid tribute to the film work of Carpenter but at the same time gave him a new world to play in... in this case literally through Virtual Reality."

This has a dystopian noir vibe, and I dig it. I think you will too.

John Carpenter's debut album of non-soundtrack material is out now on Sacred Bones.

Thanks to io9.