With Kurt Russell’s remarkable portrayal of former U.S. Army lieutenant turned criminal Snake Plissken, the synth-infused score from Carpenter himself, and all of that low-budget ingenuity from the production team, there’s plenty to remember here.
Nearly 40 years after its release, John Carpenter’s dystopian action thriller Escape From New York remains to be one of the most groundbreaking early ’80s action films, and for plenty of reasons.
But one thing a lot of people may forgot — or not know — is the fact that James Cameron had a hand in a lot of what went down behind the scenes.