Prison is a pretty decent cult horror from the 80's, starring a young Viggo Mortensen as the protagonist- Burke. It basically takes the haunted house concept and re-orients it into a prison setting.
Moving into a disused prison facility, the inmates quickly find themselves becoming involved in a series of freak accidents around the facility and realize that a former electrocuted inmate is haunting the prison and forcing them to find a way of stopping him.For the most part this here was quite the fun and enjoyable offering.
I was enjoying this film, but then all of a sudden it just seemed to tail off and I lost interest.Can't pinpoint what was wrong, but it was a disappointment for me.
Prison aside some minor flaws has an average pattern on those horror flick shot on late eighties it had a cogent special effects that improves too much the presentation, bonded on a thriving premise, the picture astonish us by his odd novelty, the whole casting is absolutely faultless, mainly by Lane Smith as a spiteful warden and the newcomer Viggo Mortensen as the smooth car's thief, who enforce some respect there, due his bold background, also the beauty Chelsea Field as female attraction, the plot is enough artsy when exposes the execution of a convict at electric chair in 1964 and why he goes back when the deactivated and decayed prenitentiary is choose to receives news inmates to a makeover, to lead the dared undertaking they call back the same warden and their former staff to take ahead the project, however the ghost of the innocent man executed at electric chair is release from a sealed chamber of execution, whom was stolen a crucifix, that was the reason of his return for a pressing and bloody vengeance, a gory oriented scenes, the most impressive certainly was when Wallace (Hall Landon Jr.) was wrapped and squashed by a living barbed wire, also a awesome outcome, glad to see the promising actor young Viggo Mortensen as top billing casting with Lane Smith, underrated at IMDB's members, albeit has a cult status by many thousand !!!
I first saw this in the late 80s on a vhs. Revisited it recently.
Before Renny Harlin did Die Hard 2 (or The Adventures of Ford Fairlane). Before Viggo Mortensen was in the Tolkien films.
Charles Bands' company produced a number of fine genre films from this period, including "Re-Animator", "From Beyond", and this solid and under-rated supernatural shocker.It gets a lot of power from its main location, the real life Wyoming State Prison in Rawlins, Wyoming.
I pulled down a VHS box from my vast collection - many unseen - and picked out a movie, based on the box art, I thought would be fun, and yes, bad. Prison had that 80s cheesy look all over that box.
