John Carpenter’s sequel to his cult hit Escape from New York (1981) is set in a future where Los Angeles has become a heavily guarded island containing the scum of society and those unwilling to live by the ultra-conservative president’s morality laws. Kurt Russell collaborated on the screenplay and returns as Snake Plissken, who is offered a pardon for his past crimes if he infiltrates the island and escapes with a weapon of mass destruction stolen by a rebel. Social commentary and camp abound in Carpenter’s post-apocalyptic vision of iconic Los Angeles locations including Sunset Boulevard and Beverly Hills.