Two New Books Dive Deep into John Carpenter’s ‘Escape from New York’ and ‘Escape from L.A.’

From Harker Press, the publisher who brought you Taking Shape and The Soul of Wes Craven, comes the Escape Artists duology, a two-book collection that’s NOW AVAILABLE! Join Escape from New York and Escape from L.A. historian Andreas Johansson for an unprecedented deep dive into the making of these two John Carpenter cult classics. Exhaustively […]

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5 of This Week’s Coolest Horror Collectibles Including a Deluxe ‘They Live’ Figure from Mondo

Killer Collectibles highlights five of the most exciting new horror products announced each and every week, from toys and apparel to artwork, records, and much more. Here are the coolest horror collectibles unveiled this week! Ben Cooper Costume Figures from NECA As previewed at San Diego Comic-Con, NECA is adding four new characters to its Ben […]

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It’s the Little Things: An Appreciation of the Miniatures in ‘Escape from New York’

In a world that’s becoming increasingly more literal by the year, it’s intoxicating to realize that your eyes have betrayed you. For many fans of genre filmmaking, that feeling is what initially pulled our tastes towards the bizarre and dream-like. It’s a realm containing stories that give us permission to discard the rational portions of […]

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Radio Silence No Longer Attached to ‘Escape from New York’ Requel

It was announced two years ago that filmmaking team Radio Silence (Ready or Not, Scream, Scream VI, Abigail) were working on bringing Snake Plissken back to the screen for a brand new movie based on John Carpenter’s Escape from New York for 20th Century Studios, with John Carpenter himself on board as an executive producer of the upcoming […]

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‘Escape from New York’ – Filmmakers Radio Silence Tease Their Vision for the “Requel” Movie

We had learned late last year that filmmaking team Radio Silence (V/H/S, Southbound, Ready or Not, Scream, Scream VI) were working on bringing Snake Plissken back to the screen for a brand new movie based on John Carpenter’s Escape from New York for 20th Century Studios, with John Carpenter himself on board as an executive […]

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‘Escape from New York’ – Radio Silence in Early Talks to Potentially Direct a New Movie

We’ve been hearing about the potential return of Snake Plissken for many years now, the character of course played by Kurt Russell and introduced in John Carpenter’s Escape from New York back in 1981. Carpenter and Russell reunited for sequel Escape from LA in 1996, but we haven’t seen or heard from the one-eyed badass […]

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John Carpenter Says Snake Plissken Deserves “a Third or Maybe Even Fourth Story”

Kurt Russell‘s one-eyed badass Snake Plissken is one of the most iconic characters in film history. He saved the President of the United States in John Carpenter‘s thrilling sci-fi actioneer Escape from New York (1981) and then the POTUS’s daughter in the 1996 sequel Escape from L.A. The dystopian anti-hero is a fan favorite that’s been […]

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