← Apex Mountain

Escape from New York

1981 · directed by John Carpenter · 99 min
24,583 feet · Prominence
602nd of 15,261 films scored
The Rewatchables‘Escape From New York’ With Bill Simmons, Shea Serrano, and Chris Ryan

How this film scores

Draw60

$50m worldwide in 1981 — $182m in today's money.

As released$50mIn 2026 money$182mRank1,772 of 8,589In 198111 of 76

How Draw works

Inflation-adjusted worldwide box office, on one global curve, and nothing else. It does not know whether a film was good.

Praise73

Critics 73, awards 0. Half each, so Praise lands at 73.

Critics73 → 37Awards0 → 0

No award rows on file. The awards pass reads Wikidata, which is thin for older and non-English films, so an empty ledger is usually missing data rather than an absence of honours.

How Praise works

Half critics, half a tiered award record where Picture and Directing carry most of the weight. Praise is the verdict at the time; Legacy is the verdict since.

Legacy62

Judged directly: Snake Plissken icon, Carpenter cult staple.

Verdict62 of 100IMDb7.1 from 171kWikipedia39k views a monthAge45 years

Scored beside it · 450 of 3,430 films judged

If it does not belong in this company, the number is wrong.

How Legacy works

Legacy is a judgment, not a formula. A film can be adored by critics and culturally quiet, or lightly reviewed and permanently lodged in the culture, and no arithmetic over IMDb numbers tells the difference. Every signal behind it keeps updating.

draw 60 praise 73 legacy 62averages 65, which places it at24,583 ft
How the three become one number

Added, not multiplied, so a film transcendent on one pillar and weak on another is not zeroed out. A compression curve then squeezes the top, because the seven greatest films ever made should not be four thousand feet apart.

In these careers — elevation for this film

Kurt Russell22,134 ft