Prison (1988 film)

Infobox Film
name = Prison


caption = VHS cover for Prison
director = Renny Harlin
producer = Charles Band
Irwin Yablans
writer = Irwin Yablans
C. Courtney Joyner
starring = Viggo Mortensen
Chelsea Field
Lane Smith
Lincoln Kilpatrick
music = Richard Band
Christopher L. Stone
cinematography = Mac Ahlberg
editing = Andy Horvitch
distributor = Empire Pictures
released = 1988
runtime = 102 min
country = flagicon|USA USA
language = English
budget = $4,000,000 (estimated)
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website =
amg_id = 1:39248
imdb_id = 0095904

"Prison" is a 1988 horror film starring Viggo Mortensen. It was filmed at the Old State Prison in Rawlins, Wyoming with many of its residents on the cast and crew.

Plot

In 1956, inmate Charlie Forsythe swallowed 60,000 volts of electricity for a murder he didn't commit.

When Creedmore Prison is reopened after thirty years, it has not been standing empty. Charlie Forsythe is back - still charged with electric heat. Waiting for Eaton Sharpe (Lane Smith) - the man who stood by as Forsythe rode the electric chair.

Forsythe quickly makes up for lost time as his vengeance rises to a fever pitch of violent fury. Burke (Viggo Mortensen) and the other inmates soon realize that they will all be slaughtered unless Forsythe is allowed to repay his long-standing debt. With the lives of Creedmore in the balance, Sharpe and Forsythe are finally brought face-to-rotting-face in a duel that will pit Forsythe's supernatural rage against Sharpe's blood-thirsty instinct for survival.

Cast

Release

The film was released in 1988 on VHS by New World Pictures. This film has yet to be officially released on DVD, even though bootlegs are available.

External links

*imdb title|id=0095904|title=Prison
*amg movie|id=1:39248|title=Prison