Netflix has a bad habit of dropping awesome genre movies onto its streaming service, but not promoting the releases on the home page or anywhere of note. Instead, we get endless posters featuring stand-up comics shrugging while holding microphones. Anyway, I do these recommends to let you know when cool new genre shite hits. Someone has to.
It is with this in mind I wanted to let you guys know that John Carpenter’s action classic ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK had just hit Netflix streaming.
This is right off the heels of the news that GRINDHOUSE director Robert Rodriguez will be helming the remake. What better way to “celebrate” such cool news than to peep the original flick.
ESCAPER FROM NEW YORK synopsis:
In 1997, when the U.S. president crashes into Manhattan, now a giant maximum security prison, a convicted bank robber is sent in to rescue him.
ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK is directed by John Carpenter, written by John Carpenter and Nick Castle, and stars Kurt Russell, Lee Van Cleef, Ernest Borgnine, Harry Dean Stanton, Tom Atkins, and Adrienne Barbeau…
STREAM ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK HERE