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Escape from New York

Escape from New York

Directed by John Carpenter

In a bleak, alternate future, Manhattan Island has become the nation’s only maximum security prison. When Air Force One crash lands in the prison, the government sends in a disposable hero— Kurt Russell icon, Snake Plissken, an outlaw and former war hero—to get him out.

In John Carpenter's bleak, alternate future, Manhattan Island has become the nation’s only maximum security prison.

Cast: Kurt Russell, Lee Van Cleef, Ernest Borgnine, Donald Pleasence, Isaac Hayes

Member Reviews

Dark, nasty, tense, and bad-ass. Leave it to John Carpenter to make one of the most beloved classics of the 1980's out of Kurt Russell running around dark city streets for an hour and a half.

Cuttlefish
2 years ago

I loved this movie when I watched it as a kid & I love it even more now. Kurt Russel kills it, he can go from Going Overboard livin' the redneck life to a city mercinary badass criminal.

Bannaner
2 years ago

Not horror at all, but who cares, it's one of the tightest action thrillers ever made.

GregoryPaul
2 years ago

Yep a Solid flick loaded with great cast but It is def not Horror

Gdann
2 years ago

a great cult classic here, definite must watch, very fun movie. definitely NOT a horror film, more of a dystopian action movie, but well worth the watch

jsmoore1004
2 years ago