Escape from New York famously keeps Snake Plissken's backstory a mystery, though director John Carpenter once revealed how he ...

You can't talk about horror or action film genres without getting to John Carpenter. Making movies since the 1960s, he has had blockbuster hits on the silver screen and become a fan-favorite with ...

Tombstone famously recreates the OK Corral shootout, but Kurt Russell's coolest onscreen showdown actually came a few years later in 1996.

Directed by John Carpenter "Call me Snake." In a dystopian future where Manhattan has become a maximum-security prison, Russell slinks onto the screen as Snake Plissken, an eye-patched ex-soldier ...

Escape From New York Sets the Standard for Post-Apocalyptic Movies Escape From New York is a genre mashup of sci-fi, horror, and action. John Carpenter wrote the script alongside Nick Castle (the ...

Clint Eastwood passed on this cult martial arts comedy from 1986, and missed out on the chance to do a playful parody of his Western rival John Wayne.