If you loved Escape from New York, try They Live
A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.
What they share
Both films are directed by John Carpenter, and they sit in Action / Science Fiction / Thriller territory. If that's the register that drew you to Escape from New York, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
What They Live is
Los Angeles streets, a homeless man's cardboard box. A construction site idle, a pair of sunglasses abandoned, a message scrawled on a billboard. Carpenter shoots this rebellion with a straightforward fury.

