Prison
VHS cover for Prison
Directed by	Renny Harlin
Produced by	Charles Band Irwin Yablans
Written by	Irwin Yablans C. Courtney Joyner
Starring	Viggo Mortensen Chelsea Field Lane Smith Lincoln Kilpatrick
Music by	Richard Band Christopher L. Stone
Cinematography	Mac Ahlberg
Editing by	Andy Horvitch
Distributed by	Empire Pictures
Release date(s)	1988
Running time	102 min
Country	USA
Language	English
Budget	$4,000,000 (estimated)
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Taglines:

• In 1956, Charles Forsyth was sent to the electric chair. Now he's back...
• Horror Has A New Home.

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. Lane Smith, full name Walter Lane Smith (April 29, 1936 – June 13, 2005) was a U.S. character actor. ...

Forsythe quickly makes up for lost time as his vengeance rises to a fever pitch of violent fury. Burke (Viggo Mortensen) and the others 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 deul that will pit Forsythe's supernatural rage against Sharpe's blood-thirsty instinct for survial. Viggo Peter Mortensen, Jr. ...

Cast

Burke and Cresus

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Deaths

Forsythe death

• Forsythe - Electrocution
• Hershey - Burned alive
• Rabbit - Stabbed in the head
• Wallace - Mummified with bard wire
• Sandor - Hole blaster through his chest
• Kramer - Fell to his death
• Johnson - Slammed down on the floor
• Tiny - Shot in the chest with a shotgun
• Lasagna - Shot with a machine gun
• Rhino - Stab in the back with a pick axe
• Captain Horton - Shot with a handgun
• Cresus - Bleed to death for gun wound in foot and shoulder
• Eaton Sharpe - Car Explosion
• Along with other Unnamed/Unknown guards and prisoners

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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. Bottom view of VHS cassette with magnetic tape exposed Top view of VHS cassette with front casing removed The Video Home System, better known by its abbreviation VHS is a recording and playing standard for analog video cassette recorders (VCRs), developed by Victor Company of Japan, Limited (JVC) and launched... // New World Communications Company Info •This company no longer exists. ... DVD (also known as Digital Versatile Disc or Digital Video Disc) is an optical disc storage media format that can be used for data storage, including movies with high video and sound quality. ...

External links

• Prison at the Internet Movie Database
• Prison at All Movie Guide