Nobody ask John Carpenter to list his Letterboxd top four.

The legendary horror director was only recently introduced to the popular moviegoers’ social media platform after his team debunked a Carpenter impersonator who had some fun in the diary entries of some of his films.

“What the hell is a Letterboxd!??” wrote Carpenter on his actual X account after his rep told Entertainment Weekly of the Letterboxd profile: “It was a fake account.”

Launching in 2011, Letterboxd has gained massive popularity among moviegoers since the Covid-19 pandemic, allowing users to log, rate and review the films they watch.

While the fake account, which has since been taken down, praised such Carpenter classics as Halloween (1978) and The Thing (1982), it also shared some brutally honest reviews of other films, like one about his 1992 sci-fi comedy Memoirs of an Invisible Man. “I f—ing hate this pile of s— and want every copy burned,...