"The action is so raw it doesn't seem choreographed, so fast it doesn't seem implausible, and so intense you never ask what it's all about - you just hang on." - Entertainment Weekly "Guide to the Greatest Movies Ever Made"

Isolated, cut off. Inside an abandoned police station, a handful of cops and some convicts on their way to Death Row must join forces and defend themselves against the gang called Street Thunder, who have taken a blood oath to destroy.

From the director of Halloween and The Thing, Assault On Precint 13 combines elements of the classic western and modern thriller to create a cult favorite, one of John Carpenter's very best films.