Before I start, I have to point out that any movie set in a prison is halfway towards winning me over. Any movie set in a carnival or a prison has to be pretty bad for me not to enjoy it. Luckily, Prison is a decent enough movie, even if there's a reason you've probably never heard of it.
The plot centers around the ghost of an inmate put to death in a now abandoned prison. The prison is re-opened, and the ghost is freed when an inmate played by Viggo Mortensen and another guy are ordered to bust through the sealed off room to the electric chair. From there it starts to feel like an A Nightmare On Elm Street clone without Freddy, and the pissed off ghost starts killing people. No big surprise that director Renny Harlin (Cliffhanger, Die Hard 2) went on to direct a NOES sequel the same year.
The deaths are nice and gory and I love the prison setting, but otherwise it's pretty standard fare. You know everything about the movie in the first ten minutes, so it ends up being way too conventional to be remembered as anything special. You've probably seen it all before, but seeing more of it isn't always that bad.
Review By Marshall
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