Escape From New York (1981)

This original U.S. one sheet channels the stark, dystopian imagination of John Carpenter’s Escape from New York. The toppled head of the Statue of Liberty anchors the composition, transforming a familiar symbol into a portent of urban collapse. Around it, Manhattan rises like a concrete fortress, its ruined streets cast in deep blues and harsh shadows that heighten the film’s vision of a future city turned prison.

Below, the fleeing figures and bold red title typography inject urgency and grit, evoking the film’s mix of sci-fi, action, and countercultural edge. It’s a poster that captures early-’80s anxieties about crime, authority, and decay, an era when dystopia felt not just imagined, but uncomfortably close.

• Year: 1981
• Nationality: United States
• Condition: Linen-backed
• Type: Original One Sheet
• Size: 27 X 41 Inches
• Product Code: P2654