If the 1970s saw John Carpenter make his name with a pair of masterpieces in Assault on Precinct 13 (1976) and Halloween (1978), it was in the 1980s that his status as a pop-cultural icon was sealed. Carpenter delivered one of the era’s most enduring cult artifacts with Escape from New York (1981), a cyberpunk classic which envisions the Manhattan Island of 1997...