Lockup: 5 Horror Movies Set In Prisons
The prospect of prison is scary enough for most people. Being locked up 24/7 in a tiny cell with one's every move being dictated and watched is not most people's idea of a good time. Then there's the constant threat of violence from other inmates seen in every television show and movie, which never depict prisons as a pleasant place to be.
There's no way prison could be any worse than it appears to be. Or is there? What if inmates not only had to deal with the standard horrors of prison life, but supernatural horrors as well? These horror movies set in prisons and jails will make anyone who sees them glad of their freedom.
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The little-known 1987 movie Prison actually features some pretty big-name stars. Viggo Mortensen, Tom Everett, and horror icon Kane Hodder all appear in this supernatural tale of a wrongly executed inmate returning from the grave for revenge. Creedmore Prison has been reopened after 30 years, and it quickly becomes clear that there are more than echoes of the past haunting the cells of the building. In 1964, Charlie Forsythe was given the electric chair for a murder he didn't commit, and now he has returned to get revenge on the officer who did nothing while he died.
The film was shot in an actual decommissioned prison in Rawlins, Wyoming that had been abandoned in the early 80s. Because of this, the crew could do whatever they wanted, including destroying areas because the facility was due to be demolished. Another fun fact about the film is that a majority of the extras seen in the film were actual inmates of Wyoming State Penitentiary.
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