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Prison

1987 · 102 min

Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller

After Charles Forsyth was sent to the electric chair for a crime he didn't commit, he forever haunts the prison where he was executed. Flash forward several years when the prison is reopened, under the control of its new warden Eaton Sharpe, a former security guard who framed Charlie. When prisoners are ordered to break down the wall to the execution room, they unknowingly release the angry spirit of Charles Forsyth, a powerful being distributing his murderous rage to all, leading up to the Warden himself.

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Appeals to viewers who enjoy grim supernatural revenge stories where oppressive institutions become haunted battlegrounds.

Tone
bleak, eerie, tense
Payoff
scares, catharsis
Pacing
steady
Intensity
intense
Structure
linear
Themes
wrongful punishment, institutional abuse, revenge, haunting
Setting
late twentieth century, decaying maximum-security prison

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