Escape 2000 (film)

Escape 2000
aka	Escape from the Bronx Bronx Warriors 2 The Riffs II: Flucht Aus der Bronx
Year	1983
Directed by	Enzo G. Castellari
Produced by	Fabrizio De Angelis
Written by	Tito Carpi Enzo G. Castellari
Music by	Francesco De Masi
Studio	Fulvia Film
Cast	Henry Silva Giancarlo Prete Mark Gregory Valeria D'Obici
Run time	89 minutes
Riffed in	Episode #705 RiffTrax

For the episode, see MST3K 705 - Escape 2000.

Escape 2000 is a 1983 action film directed by Enzo G. Castellari. It is a sequel to the 1982 film The Bronx Warriors.

Plot

Escape 2000

The "General Construction Corporation" hires a group of militarized thugs to re-locate or murder everyone living in the Bronx so they can re-purpose the area with upscale apartment buildings. When renegade gang leader "Trash" (Mark Gregory, reprising his role from 1990: The Bronx Warriors) discovers these "Disinfestors" have killed his parents, he decides to seek revenge. Things get blown up, people get killed, and the main villain is named "Floyd Wrangler."

Cast

• Henry Silva as Floyd Wrangler
• Giancarlo Prete as Strike
• Mark Gregory as Trash
• Valeria D'Obici as Moon Grey
• Paolo Malco as Vice President Hoffman
• Ennio Girolami as President Clark
• Antonio Sabato as Dablone / Toblerone
• Andrea Coppola as Jay the Photographer

Notes

"Leave the Bronx. You are ordered to leave the Bronx."

• On the wall in the apartment of Trash's parents is a large black and white poster of Mark Gregory from 1990: The Bronx Warriors.
• Carla Brait appears in a cameo as the Ironman leader from 1990: The Bronx Warriors.
• Director Enzo G. Castellari cameos as the radio operator with a mustache.
• The full death toll in the uncut version is 174. There are 110 killed in shootings, 40 in explosions, nine by flamethrowers, one by stabbing, one off-screen kill, four unknowns, six electrocutions, two bashed in the face with a helmet and one face turned to red mush after being hit with a shotgun butt.
• Giancarlo Prete (Strike) and Andrea Coppola (Jay) also appear in Warriors of the Wasteland, a similarly post-apocalyptic Italian-made movie that would later be featured on RiffTrax.
• Not to be confused with another film entitled Escape 2000, released in 1982, starring Steve Railsback and Olivia Hussey.
• Mark Gregory's character Trash wears his leather jacket constantly throughout the movie, even in fight scenes. It was necessary to disguise the fact that he had lost much of the muscle mass that he had had in 1990: The Bronx Warriors, which greatly disappointed this movie's producers.
• Even though Mike and the bots seem to express skepticism that this movie actually was shot in New York, the exteriors actually were filmed on location in New York, including the Bronx. Interiors were filmed in Italy.

MST3K Connections

• Actor and stuntman Giovanni Cianfriglia (rebel and disinfector) was also a stuntman in Hercules Unchained, Hercules, and The Pumaman.
• Actor and stunt coordinator Riccardo Petrazzi (fighter with knife) also portrayed a Zarth henchman in Starcrash.
• Voice dubber Lewis E. Ciannelli was also ADR director for Cave Dwellers, writer and director of English dialogue for Argoman the Fantastic Superman, and dialogue director for Killer Fish.
• Edward Mannix (English dub voice of President Henry Clark) also provided the English dub voices for Sandur in Cave Dwellers, Bill Stevens in Pod People, and Ralph Valmont in Diabolik, as well as unspecified voice dubbing in Master Ninja I.
• Ted Rusoff (English dub voice of Biddle) also provided the English dub voice of Shiro Tsutsumi in Gamera vs Gaos.

Gallery

A DVD release under the Escape from the Bronx title

Riffed Versions

• Mystery Science Theater 3000 - Episode #706
• RiffTrax, 2022 (as Escape from the Bronx)