Fifteen years after murdering his sister on Halloween night 1963, Michael Myers escapes from a mental hospital and returns to the small town of Haddonfield, Illinois to kill again. The workprint containing deleted scenes finally turned up in the On August 3, 2010, MGM Home Entertainment released BOOM! This is, simply put, one of the coolest productions ever with legendary characters, ingenious plot and pitch-black humor.

Cabbie takes Snake to Harold "Brain" Hellman, an adviser to the Duke and a former associate of Snake. A research team finds a mysterious cylinder in a deserted church. Check out some of the IMDb editors' favorites movies and shows to round out your Watchlist.Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. released a crossover comics miniseries between Snake and Jack Burton titled In 2003, Carpenter was planning an anime spin-off of With Kurt Russell, Lee Van Cleef, Ernest Borgnine, Donald Pleasence. An unlikely partnership between a Highway Patrol Officer, two criminals and a station secretary is formed to defend a defunct Los Angeles precinct office against a siege by a bloodthirsty street gang. Was this review helpful to you? "One is the police state, high tech, lots of neon, a United States dominated by underground computers. I'd wake up around 5 or 6 pm, depending on whether or not we had dailies, and by the time I got going, the sun would be setting. Snake Plissken is once again called in by the United States government to recover a potential doomsday device from Los Angeles, now an autonomous island where undesirables are deported. a list of 11 images Carpenter said, "The whole feeling of the nation was one of real cynicism about the president." To his embarrassment, it only plays Cabbie's song, "International Film Investors agreed to provide 50% of the budget, and The film's setting proved to be a potential problem for Carpenter, who needed to create a decaying, semidestroyed version of New York City on a shoe-string budget. The film's storyline, set in the near-future world of 1997, concerns a crime-ridden Carpenter wrote the film in the mid-1970s in reaction to the In 1988, following a 400% increase in crime, the United States has turned Manhattan into a giant maximum-security prison. My only slightly negative remark is that the story should have had a better, more explosive climax. A 50-foot (15 m) wall surrounds the island, bridges have been In 1997, while flying the US President to a peace summit in Hartford, Connecticut, Air Force One is hijacked by terrorists.

If opened, it could mean the end of the world. It was a tough and demanding shoot for the filmmaker as he recalls. The downfall of America's number one city is atmospherically portrayed and Carpenter's own music score creates an excellent mood of despair. In 1997, when the U.S. president crashes into Manhattan, now a giant maximum security prison, a convicted bank robber is sent in to rescue him. The government tries to stop them. Freshen up your watchlist with Prime Video’s latest roster of movies and TV shows, featuring Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? a list of 33 images Even the smaller supportive roles are well distributed, with the underrated Tom Atkins as Van Cleef's sidekick and Adrienne Barbeau in a very sexy part.

He had been inspired by the film Death Wish, which was very popular at the time. California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California, USA (The scene where Snake tries to start the Datsun and one of the Duke of New York's minions comes out of the engine compartment was filmed in the Main Lobby of Cal Arts.) An alien takes the form of a young widow's husband and asks her to drive him from Wisconsin to Arizona. The action sequences are impressively photographed and John Capenter professionally camouflages that his film is, in fact, and independent production. All Snake wants to know is how the president feels about the people who died saving him. "We'd finish shooting at about 6 am and I'd just be going to sleep at 7 when the sun would be coming up. The film's production designer Carpenter and his crew persuaded the city to shut off the electricity to 10 blocks at a time at night. 54 of 73 people found this review helpful.

Romero, the right-hand man of the Duke of New York, the overall Snake meets "Cabbie" who remained in Manhattan after it became a prison and now drives an armored taxi. He did not agree with this film's philoso… An unearthly fog rolls into a small coastal town exactly 100 years after a ship mysteriously sank in its waters. Brain is a brilliant engineer and has established an oil well and a small refinery, fueling the city's remaining cars.

Nearly 25 years and an endless amount of viewings later, John Carpenter's "Escape from NY" still ranks high among the chosen few, quintessential cult films of the 80's. Escape from New York (1981) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. A nerdish boy buys a strange car with an evil mind of its own and his nature starts to change to reflect it. He wrote the screenplay, but no studio wanted to make it because, according to Carpenter, "[i]t was too violent, too scary, [and] too weird". So for about two and a half months I never saw daylight, which was really strange. As they continue on foot, Brain is killed by another mine. Class-A actors play all these utterly cool characters, which makes it even more memorable!

One problem though; ever since crime rose with 400% in 1987, New York has become one giant and demarcated prison where criminals determine their own "civilization".

Recovering from an ambush that killed his entire team, a vengeful vampire slayer must retrieve an ancient Catholic relic that, should it be acquired by vampires, will allow them to walk in sunlight. Maggie refuses to leave him, shooting at Duke's car until she is run down. Particularly because the first hour is so great, the ending seems quite tame.