Escape from the Bronx
Escape from the Bronx is a 1983 film from Italy, directed by Enzo G. Castellari, running 89 minutes. reelscum files it under post-nuke.
- Year
- 1983 · 1980s films
- Country
- Italy
- Runtime
- 89 min
- Director
- Enzo G. Castellari
- Updated
- 10 Aug 2026
- Obscurity
- cult (35/100)
- Also known as
- Escape from the Bronx - 1990: Bronx Warriors II · Bronx Warriors II · Escape 2000 · Escape from the Bronx
Defined in the glossary: Post-nuke
More of the same, with flamethrowers and property developers as villains.
Castellari's sequel to The Bronx Warriors, bigger and dumber, in which a corporation tries to depopulate the Bronx by force and the gangs fight back with flamethrowers. Mark Gregory returns as the sullen, oddly-moving hero, and the property-developers-as-villains angle gives it a faint political charge under the carnage.
It doubles down on everything: more explosions, more absurd gangs, more terrible dubbing. As Italian Escape from New York knock-offs go, it is one of the more enjoyably excessive.
Loud, cheap and shameless, in the best drive-in tradition.
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Filed alongside
The New Barbarians
Castellari's Mad Max, with perspex cars and George Eastman. Sold in the US as Warriors of the Wasteland.
Yor, the Hunter from the Future
Starts as caveman fantasy, becomes science fiction with no warning.
2019: After the Fall of New York
The last fertile woman on Earth, in a quarry outside Rome.
1990: The Bronx Warriors
Fred Williamson in a cape. Castellari doing Warriors on a Roman budget.
2020 Texas Gladiators
D'Amato and Eastman's Mad Max in a cowboy hat. Assembled entirely from better films.
Exterminators of the Year 3000
The Italian Road Warrior with sand instead of the Bronx, muscle car included.
Dead End Drive-In
A drive-in turned into an internment camp. The satire is not subtle.
Mad Max 2
The template the whole Italian post-nuke cycle copied for a decade.