10 Actors Who Didn't Want To Be Credited For Horror Movie Roles

Here’s an uncredited voice turn that remains a minor movie mystery to this day. John Carpenter’s fifth film is predominantly a sci-fi action flick, but retains some of the director’s familiar horror tropes in its dystopian setting.

The film created an instant icon in Kurt Russell’s eyepatch-wearing anti-hero Snake Plissken, but Escape From New York also reunited John Carpenter with one of his earlier muses: Jamie Lee Curtis, the star of Halloween. Curtis plays a dual role in the film, first narrating the expository voiceover that opens the movie, later contributing her dulcet tones to the part of a computer.

Only, maybe she doesn’t. The part is officially credited to a “Kathleen Blanchard”, an actor of little note. So little, indeed, that she has no other credits beyond this and its sequel. While Carpenter has stated that it’s not Curtis providing the narration, the actor has been cagier of the years, giving this the feel of another layer of intrigue to an already-cult classic movie.