Description
Reissue of the "New Expanded Edition" of the Escape From New York - Original Film Soundtrack - the classic 1981 American independent science fiction action film co-written, co-scored, and directed by John Carpenter. It stars Kurt Russell, Lee Van Cleef, Ernest Borgnine, Donald Pleasence, Isaac Hayes, Harry Dean Stanton, and Adrienne Barbeau.
The film is set in 1997 and concerns a future crime-ridden dystopian United States, which has converted Manhattan Island in New York City into the country's sole maximum security prison. Air Force One is hijacked by anti-government insurgents who deliberately crash it into the walled-off borough. Snake Plissken (Kurt Russell), a special forces operative turned federal prisoner, is given 24 hours by U.S Police Commissioner Bob Hauk (Lee Van Cleef) to rescue the President of the United States (Donald Pleasance). To ensure his cooperation, Hauk has Snake injected with micro-explosives that will sever his carotid arteries in 23 hours. If Snake is successful, Hauk will neutralize the explosive
Starting at 22:59:59, 'Snake' Plissken's countdown timer adds to the tension in this classic '80s thriller. This limited edition "Mission Countdown" release on "Snake" green vinyl has individual numbered stickers - one for each of the minutes allowed for the mission. Starting at 22:59:59 and ending at 00:00:59, there will be only 1,380 copies of this release.
Originally released on the 31st of July 2015, the vinyl edition of John Carpenter's classic 1981 thriller mirrored the expanded CD release from 2000, with over 20 minutes of previously unreleased music plus music from scenes deleted from the final print and original dialogue highlights. The masters for that CD were re-mixed from the original multi-track session tapes by long-time Carpenter associate Alan Howarth.
