When John Carpenter directed and co-wrote this 1981 movie, he imagined a frightening future in which Manhattan has been repurposed as a maximum-security prison – and in which planes can be shot out of the sky. (In this case, it’s Air Force One, and the President is taken down and held prisoner by rioting convicts, necessitating a government-sanctioned rescue mission by Kurt Russell’s one-eyed Snake.) That’s all plenty weird – but what’s really scary about this film is that it takes place in the year 1997.