John Carpenter is a director best known for his contributions to the horror genre, most notably Halloween (John Carpenter, 1978), which was a huge success in theaters when it was released in the late 1970s. This thesis draws on scholarly works which have identified “class” as a central category in the majority of US-American independent horror films (Roche 2014). Despite its fame, Halloween has not been given as much attention with regards to class issues as other American independent horror films released in the 1970s. For this reason, this thesis sets out to examine whether John Carpenter emphasizes messages about class both in this film and in his most recent contribution to the horror genre, The Ward (John Carpenter, 2010) and also how this hyphotetical messages differ in each of these films. The results show that The Ward contains more subtle class-markers than Halloween.