John Carpenter's Escape from New York

I've recently been purging my DVD collection at moviestop and buying myself the kind of guilty pleasures I would watch over and over. Escape from New York is one of those for me. This is one of the original post-apocalyptic masterpieces. The wacky premise is that in the future (1997!!) New York has become a walled off sort of prison for all the crazies and airforce one (piloted by a terrorist) crash lands in the middle of it. The president does eject before the crash, but is soon taken hostage by the locals.

Kurt Russell is pitch perfect as Snake Plissken, the X special forces turned condemned bad-ass whose only hope of release is to go in and get the President out. The catch is that those sneeky government people implant a small explosive that will kill him in 24 hrs if he does not get the president out and in turn get the device deactivated. Sounds awesome right?

This film is just pure campy fun, from its apocalyptic landscape to the ridiculous punk rock inspired outfits and one liners. All this doesn't diminish Carpenter's ability to still bring in a sort of under your skin creepiness as Snake explores New Yorks hazardous alleyways. I won't spoil all the fun, just go rent it for yourself. Check out this trailer to get you amped!