![]() More than anything else, the place suggests a giant outdoor tattoo parlor crossed with an automobile junkyard. In its funniest concept, the post-millennial Beverly Hills is peopled entirely by "surgical failures," those who have undergone so much cosmetic surgery that they have all become Michael Jackson-like oddities and worse.Īnyone who ventures into the area is promptly captured and whisked to the former Beverly Hills Hotel, now a filthy hospital run by a fright-masked chief surgeon and his blood-spattered assistants, who tie up the prisoners and extract theirĪs the head of the place examines the body of a fresh female captive and touches her breasts, he exclaims, "My God, they're real!"īut for the most part, the film's horror-movie vision of Los Angeles is surprisingly unimaginative. As amusing as some of its notions may be, none are developed into sustained running jokes. "Escape From L.A.," which the director wrote with Russell and Debra Hill, is much too giddy to make sense as a politically astute pop fable. Is informed he has only a few hours to get back the box or he will succumb to a hideous designer virus that has been implanted in his body through a hand scratch. Langer), on a virtual-reality trip and turning her into a revolutionary. Terrorist and Che Guevara look-alike who drives around in a limousine with a row of baby dolls perched under the windshield and an illuminated disco ball on the back.Ĭuervo has captured the deadly device, a black box that can shut down all the power on the planet, by intercepting the president's rebel daughter, Utopia (A.J. The enemy leader, Cuervo Jones (George Corraface), is a Peruvian In this episode, Snake is forcibly recruited by the president to retrieve a doomsday device that has fallen into the hands of Third World invaders headquartered in Los Angeles. Kurt Russell is back, of course, a few pounds heavier than he was in "Escape From New York" but still in good shape, as Snake Plissken, the stubbly-faced indestructible warrior with an eye patch, a reptilian tattoo and a voice that Los Angeles may be hellish, but at least, explains one exiled character, thereįor good comic measure, the movie also throws in Pam Grier as a transsexual Los Angeles overlord, and Steve Buscemi as the ultimate, fast-talking, double-dealing, sleazy Hollywood agent, a slimeball with the unfortunate name of Map to the Since the millennium, the capital of the country has been relocated to Lynchburg, Va., and the government has outlawed cursing, smoking, drinking and red meat. Given this frame of mind, who else could possibly play the grim,īible-thumping president of a politically correct fascist Christian state but Cliff Robertson, the hero of the real-life Hollywood expose "Indecent Exposure"? When dishing out its Hollywood humor, it succeeds in being frothily diverting. The sequel wants mostly to play it for laughs while serving up a series of silly comic-book stunts. These sardonic moments go a long way toward keeping afloat a hopelesslyĬhoppy adventure spoof that doesn't even to try to match the ghoulish surrealism of its forerunner. "John Carpenter's Escape From L.A.," the long-in-coming sequel to his 1981 movie "Escape From New York," is filled with such Hollywood in-jokes. You might be most likely to meet there, wearing a wet suit, clutching a surfboard and waiting to ride the next tsunami?Īnd what would the star of psychedelic adventure movies like "The Trip" and "Easy Rider" exclaim if there were a sudden downpour? "Acid rain!" Had a movie Faults come out this year.F the government deported all its "immoral" citizens to Los Angeles Island after a millennial earthquake severed the city from the mainland, who would be the person What are you currently doing and what do you enjoy What do you think of the movie personally? What's your favorite memory or memories of working on the One of us would supply the movie, another the When we weren't shooting we would have an Escape From L.A.įilm festival in our trailers. Make-up and hair who dressed me up as Snake Plissken's little brother squirrel Plissken. With the cast and crew and how did you spend time between takes? The most challenging, problematic, memorable and fun to work on? John Carpenter about it?Ĭhose the glasses and wardrobe then just went for it. How did you prepare for the role and what kind of discussions did you have with Swallow for way too long before I could speak. How did you get cast as Test Tube in EscapeĬalled into the room early with a mouth full of red vines. Always was an actor since the third grade.
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