#ESCAPE FROM LA FULL#
Langer) for having helped the theft… all while having only ten hours to get back before the deadly toxin the nefarious military fuckers have injected him with can give him the cure before it kills him (gee, this is all sounds… somehow… familiar)…įor those horror-aficionados privileged (and old) enough to have had the development of their eager and impressionable minds parallel with the exciting rise of those inspired boundary-pushing American genre cinema filmmakers who thrived in the 70’s and beyond – I’m talking the likes of Romero, Craven, Hooper (and Carpenter, of course) – those magnificent presenters of early gore and perversity who Mick Garris would eventually coin as the original Masters of Horror, along with wallowing in those glorious times, most of us also remember the sting and disappointment at wonder’s end - the loss of innocence - when each of these masters, with varying degrees of severity, showed creative chinks in their armor.įor Carpenter, that moment came, full force, with Escape from L.A.
#ESCAPE FROM LA SERIES#
(the new location-appropriate mantra in Escape from L.A.)īad mofo Snake Plissken’s back, as misanthropic and cynical as ever (while Kurt Russell was well into making a Hollywood bundle already, I certainly hope he understands how forever grateful he should be to director John Carpenter for thrusting him up into genre iconic status with their four films together – and that’s without even considering their fifth, the telemovie Elvis, which I’ve heard isn’t bad either) recently arrested yet again, for a slew of terrible new crimes, sent off on another suicide mission, this time via mini-submarine to the sin-filled, decadently lawless prison known as Los Angeles in 2013, rendered an island by a series of earthquakes (thankfully, the New Bev doesn’t draw the young arrogant hyena crowd, that insidiously growing group of literalists and cinema hijackers unable to decipher metaphor, let alone irony so fortunately there was no mindless cackling and pointing when the year was shown on the screen) to retrieve a stolen super weapon… as well as to terminate the evangelical President (Cliff Robertson)’s daughter Utopia (A.J. (says just about everyone to Snake upon seeing him in Escape from New York) Like New York, Los Angeles is now a decaying city, a hot-bed of scum and weirdos and Snake has 9 hours to find the device and Utopia, and get out before the poison kicks in.By Douglas Buck, Abel Alegria October 25, 2019
Snake Plissken, hero of Escape From New York, is forced again to go to the island to get the device by the President (who doesn't care if Utopia returns or not.) and he is poisoned to ensure his co-operation. In 2013, Cuervo Jones, a terrorist invades the dreams of the President's daughter, Utopia, and brainwashes her into stealing a device from a weapons establishment and runs with Cuervo to the island. Like New York, a wall is built, guards posted to stop any escapes and if sent there - you can't return to the US. In that year the new life-term US President, an out-spoken moralist declares that all people not conforming to the high morals he sets for the country will be deported to the Los Angeles island.
In 2000, a huge earthquake hits Los Angeles which causes the whole city to be now situated on an island.
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