With unforgettable movies like Escape from New York, The Thing, They Live, Halloween and Assault on Precint 13 in his filmography, John Carpenter’s legacy as a supreme writer-director of genre cinema - and being a pretty mean synth score composer as well- is secure. The huge success of last year's Halloween, a direct sequel to his original genre-defining 1978 slasher, and which he executive produced and scored, only confirms how potent his cinematic creations remain. This year sees Deptford Cinema honour the master of cult cinema with a retrospective of his finest films, and included in the line up will be the recent remastered editions of Dark Star, The Fog, The Thing, Escape From New York, Big Trouble in Little China and They Live!
ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK:
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. John Carpenter's dystopian vision of New York combined with Kurt Russel's badass turn as Snake Plissken made this a bona fide cult hit. Playing in a new 4K restoration edition.
dir. John Carpenter
year. 1981
99 min
£6.00 (£4.50 conc.)
Doors 7PM
Film 7.30PM