No Escape (1994)

April 29, 1994 (United States)
June 3, 1994 (United Kingdom)

No Escape, released in some countries as Escape from Absolom and Absolom 2022, is a 1994 science fiction action film directed by Martin Campbell. It stars Ray Liotta, Lance Henriksen, Stuart Wilson, Kevin Dillon, Michael Lerner and Ernie Hudson. It was based on the 1987 novel The Penal Colony by Richard Herley. In a dystopian future, a former Reconnaissance Marine serves life imprisonment on an island inhabited by savage and cannibalistic prisoners.

It was the first film collaboration between the director Martin Campbell and actor Stuart Wilson, who both later worked in The Mask of Zorro and Vertical Limit, both released in 1998 and 2000, and the film was also the third collaboration between the producer Hurd and Henriksen, after The Terminator and Aliens, both directed by James Cameron, and released in 1984 and 1986.

Storyline

A soldier convicted for murdering his commanding officer is dumped and left to die on a prison island inhabited by two camps of convicts.

Sound Effects Used

• CINESOUND - EXPLOSION TYPE 1 (Faintly heard)
• CINESOUND - EXPLOSION TYPE 15
• CINESOUND GUNSHOT 01
• Looney Tunes Explosion Sound 2
• Sound Ideas, EXPLOSION - LARGE EXPLOSION 03 (H-B)