......................to blu-ray.

Firstly this film in my opinion is awesome, right up there at the top of Carpenters hits along with The Thing, The Fog, Halloween etc.
It is also one of Kurt's most memorable perfomrmances as the harrassed anti-hero Snake.
The plot is typical Carpenter magic with an awesome score to match the onscreen antics.

Ok, how does the blu-ray fare?

Well thankfully the transfer is excellent, easily on par with The Things sharpness and clarity.
In fact as mentioned the transfer is so good it shows up some extremely dodgy (now) fx work which at the time held up well, not so much now, but hey it adds to the feel of the movie!...........just forgive the opening sequence when the camera pans up and over the wall to show the manhattan/twin towers view!!!!

There are enough extras to keep you happy, not quite the full amount from the 2 disc version if memory serves right, but a good amount.

Overall at this price this… more »

......................to blu-ray.

Firstly this film in my opinion is awesome, right up there at the top of Carpenters hits along with The Thing, The Fog, Halloween etc.
It is also one of Kurt's most memorable perfomrmances as the harrassed anti-hero Snake.
The plot is typical Carpenter magic with an awesome score to match the onscreen antics.

Ok, how does the blu-ray fare?

Well thankfully the transfer is excellent, easily on par with The Things sharpness and clarity.
In fact as mentioned the transfer is so good it shows up some extremely dodgy (now) fx work which at the time held up well, not so much now, but hey it adds to the feel of the movie!...........just forgive the opening sequence when the camera pans up and over the wall to show the manhattan/twin towers view!!!!

There are enough extras to keep you happy, not quite the full amount from the 2 disc version if memory serves right, but a good amount.

Overall at this price this classic really does deserve a good re-watching.

Great stuff from the legend of the 80's.

I got this off here when it first came out, Play is great because other big stores charge a few pounds more...so I will always buy them off here unless they are out of stock.

Ok first of all, Escape from new york has very few daylight scenes, its mostly filmed in the dark, but VERY GOOD!... I was aware this film was mostly filmed in the dark before I bought it on blu ray, and to be honest I was pleasantly surprised I could see a big diffrence from standard DVD version.

The film itself, what can I say?...its class, a shame there werent 3 of these as kurt russell playing snake, sent into half abandoned/sealed off new york to save the president, if he doesnt make it out before a certain time period the capsules they injected into his bloodstream will kill him, so he has to save the president to save himself, a really good storyline, the original bank opening scene is included here as a special feature, quite interesting if you havent saw it before, it sounds good and looks… more »

I got this off here when it first came out, Play is great because other big stores charge a few pounds more...so I will always buy them off here unless they are out of stock.

Ok first of all, Escape from new york has very few daylight scenes, its mostly filmed in the dark, but VERY GOOD!... I was aware this film was mostly filmed in the dark before I bought it on blu ray, and to be honest I was pleasantly surprised I could see a big diffrence from standard DVD version.

The film itself, what can I say?...its class, a shame there werent 3 of these as kurt russell playing snake, sent into half abandoned/sealed off new york to save the president, if he doesnt make it out before a certain time period the capsules they injected into his bloodstream will kill him, so he has to save the president to save himself, a really good storyline, the original bank opening scene is included here as a special feature, quite interesting if you havent saw it before, it sounds good and looks great if you take into account its filmed mostly in the dark and the time it was made...I would say its definittely a great transfer both sound and visually...I just hope they bring escape from LA out on blu ray as well, as I really liked that one too.

But I reckon people who say it wasnt a good transfer are not takeing into account the film is almost all filmed in the dark, but its a lot better than the standard DVD ...A LOT...which really is the point as far as I am concerned..the people who transfered the DVD to blu ray cant help it if the film was filmed mostly in the dark, and I reckon they did a good job with this one.

VERY highley recomended, if you are familiar with this film and considering buying it, I woul advise you to just buy it as its a great transfer..and well worth it..

On another note, I have taken HD and blu ray discs to other peoples homes and watced them there, and notice they have the brightness and contrast far too low, no offence is intended to anyone but I noticed some friends and family didnt have the brightness and contrast up enough for instance I taken the mummty returns to my sisters and theres part where the man says to the other man "where you find this man you wil find your son"..and it showed a picture and you couldnt even see the people in the picture it was so dark, but its not like that on my TV, its clearly because they had their brightness and contrast down far too low to enjoy high definition properly...and I reckon if people are disapointed with escape from new york that could possibly be the reason for it, but this film is fantastic on blu ray in my opinion...