Prison (1988)

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When Charles Forsyth was sent to the electric chair for a crime he didn't commit, he forever haunts the prison where it occured. Flash forward several years the prison is reopened, under the control of it's new Warden Eaton Sharpe. A former security guard who framed Charlie. When prisoners are ordered to break down the wall to the electric chair, they unknowingly release the angry spirit of Charles Forsyth, a powerful being suffering from a murderous rage, all leading up to the Warden himself. Movie Tagline: Horror Has A New Home. Title: Prison Release Date: March 04, 1988 Runtime: 102 mins Genre: Crime All Genres: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller Languages: English Country: USA Colors: Color Sound: Ultra Stereo IMDB Rating: 5.8 Brimstone Pit Rating: 6.8 - (Rate This Horror Movie) Category: Horror Movies Starting With P MPAA Rating: R Director(s): Renny Harlin Cast: Viggo Mortensen ...Burke / Forsythe Electrocution Chelsea Field ...Katherine Walker Lane Smith ...Warden Eaton Sharpe Lincoln Kilpatrick ...Cresus Tom Everett ...Rabbitt Ivan Kane ...Lasagna Andre De Shields ...Sandor Tommy 'Tiny' Lister ...Tiny (as Tom 'Tiny' Lister Jr.) Stephen E. Little ...'Rhino' Reynolds Mickey yablans ...Brian young Larry Flash Jenkins ...Hershey Arlen Dean Snyder ...Captain Horton Hal Landon Jr. ...Wallace Matt Kanen ...Johnson Rod Lockman ...Kramer Jeff L. Deist ...Gate Guard Kane Hodder ...Forsythe / Gas Mask Guard George Wallace ...Joe Reese (as George D. Wallace) Luciano Capozzoli ...Claxton Duke Spencer ...Scully Pat Noonan ...Collins Lyle D. Kelsey ...Guard Remaining Cast: Producer(s): Charles Band Irwin yablans Writer(s): Irwin yablans C. Courtney Joyner Renny Harlin Composer(s): Richard Band Christopher L. Stone Movie Soundtrack(s): "Love will be Hurrying to You" More Movie Taglines: Horror Has A New Home. In 1956, Charles Forsyth was sent to the electric chair. Now he's back... Movie Quote(s): Lasagna: Yo, Adrianna. Lasagna: I hear you can take anything on four wheels, man, and fly it away to heaven. Burke: Well don't believe everything you hear. Lasagna: I thought bustin' cars was your thing. Burke: Well a car ain't nothing but a series of locks. Older the lock, easier it is. And this place... is old. Burke: Let me tell you something. I was making it a real point to mind my own business. Maybe you oughta try that for a while. Start right now. You give me back my ball, I'll give you yours. Movie Trivia: The prison where the movie was shot, the former Wyoming State Prison located in Rawlins, Wyoming, has daily tours and much of the set remains intact from when crews filmed there in 1987. The electric chair (which was never used in Wyoming) was built into the actual gas chamber of the Wyoming Prison and the death scenes were filmed there. The original chair, was carefully removed and an electric chair was built in its place. During the shooting, Viggo Mortensen's convulsions were so violent the arms of the chair were broken and needed to be repaired. The high altitude sun in Wyoming caused shooting issues in the scene where the prisoners are stripped to their underwear and forced to stand outside all day. Due to technical issues, the scene was shot over and over and the prisoners in the background become sunburned on one side of their bodies only as extras were not provided sunblock. The water that Viggo Mortensen runs through in his underwear was real. That part of the prison had been flooded for years, the temperature in the room was below 50F and the water temperature was 46F. Mortensen's shivering is real. He insisted on shooting the scenes without a double, and only at being forced to relented for some close up scenes. The "gate" for the entrance to the prison does not exist. It was built onto a back wall section of the prison. In the process of cutting a hole in the wall for vehicles, the wall, constructed by prison labor, it was discovered, had many odd items in it as filler including a snow plow. IMDB Links: » User Comments at imdb.com » More information at imdb.com Keywords: Prison, Electric Chair, Haunting, Revenge, Supernatural  ...[more] Keywords All: Violence, Blood, One Word Title, Death, Ghost, Independent Film Seen it? Rate it Currently 6.81/10 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Rating: 6.8 out of 10.0 - 52 votes cast total buy movie on dvd del.icio.us  |  digg  |  reddit Enter your zipcode for movie listings: » BACK TO HORROR MOVIES LIST