"John Carpenter's Corpse" was originally made to be released as part of the anthology film "Betamax". It premiered at the Hollywood Underground Film Festival on Feb. 21, 2015 in was announced to the audience to be an earlier cut of "Betamax". However "Betamax" ultimately never came out in a finished form. In 2018 "John Carpenter's Corpse" became available in wide release as a segment in the anthology film "Tales Beyond Madness".