4K UHD Review – Escape from New York

It's enough for John Carpenter to make 1978's "Halloween," using his innate sense of style and tension to generate a horror classic. However, the helmer only expanded his creativity as he began his run of Hollywood work, and this amazing career managed to produce another masterpiece in 1981's "Escape from New York." Using influences from westerns and survival thrillers, Carpenter (joined by producer Debra Hill and co-writer Nick Castle) creates a study of endurance and antagonism with the feature, managing a slow-burn adventure that drips with electronic mood and idiosyncratic events. It also creates one of cinema's great antiheroes in Snake Plissken, an eyepatch-wearing nihilist brought vividly to life by Kurt Russell, in one of his best performances. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com