In 1988, the crime rate in the United States rises four hundred percent. The once great city of New York becomes the one maximum security prison for the entire country. A fifty-foot containment wall is erected along the New Jersey shoreline, across the Harlem River, and down along the Brooklyn shoreline. It completely surrounds Manhattan Island. All bridges and waterways are mined. The United States Police Force, like an army, is encamped around the island. There are no guards inside the prison, only prisoners and the worlds they have made. The rules are simple: once you go in, you don’t come out.
Escape From New York is rad– Kurt Russell is rad.. his role as Snake Plissken is definitely up there with Jack Burton. In general, I’m totally hooked on John Carpenter movies, and perhaps more so, his music. He’s scored some of the greatest thematic moments in cinematic history– probably the most memorable is the introduction to Michael Myers in Halloween, but on a funkier note here is “Duke Arrives - Barricade,” from the Escape From New York soundtrack (set to another good fighting scene).
Ps. Isaac Hayes plays the bad guy..
