Prison (film)

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Prison is a special effects extragavanza horror film by Renny Harlin, released in the year 1988.

Horror has a new home. —Tagline

The film opens with the title Prison, Wyoming State Penitentiary, being opened again after 20 years. When rebuilding starts, a wrathful spirit is released which starts to cause mayhem around the premises, seeking those who had wronged him in the past.

Tropes used in Prison (film) include:

• Agony of the Feet: Cresus shoots his foot to get in the infirmary.
• Blind Without'Em: Cresus.
• Burn, Baby, Burn: Warden Sharpe burns all the inmates mattresses at one point to weed out Rabbitt's supposed killer.
• Captivity Harmonica: And with it a whole band of other instruments.
• Catapult Nightmare: Sharpe waking up from the opening dream.
• Closed Circle
• The Danza: Tim "Tiny" Lister plays a guy called Tiny.
• Dramatic Thunder
• Explosive Instrumentation: After Charlie relays the message "The prison dies tonight" to Katherine's computer, it explodes.
• Ghostly Goals
• Great Escape: Attempted by Rabbitt couple times. All the inmates try it towards the ending.
• Groin Attack: After Rhino tells Burke to join his in-prison dealings or else, Burke grabs his balls to kindly suggest that they both would mind their own businesses.
• Heartbeat Soundtrack: Heard in the opening.
• Hellhole Prison: Wyoming State Penitentiary turn into one by the end.
• Institutional Apparel: Inmates wear jeans and light-blue shirts.
• Ironic Nickname: Riddle, whose nickname is Tiny.
• It Won't Turn Off: Katherine notices this when Charlie's spirit enters her room to giver her his first message.
• Large Ham: Lane Smith as Warden Sharpe.
• Lightning Can Do Anything: It can possess barbed wire, pipes, machineguns...
• Lockdown: Ordered by Sharpe when things are getting out of control.
• Nightmare Dreams: Warden Sharpe is plagued by his past crimes.
• The Old Convict: Cresus.
• One Word Title
• Peek-a-Boo Corpse: Rabbitt's mutilated corpse drops through the roof of cafeteria.
• Psycho Electro: Charlie Forsythe.
• Railing Kill: Kramer flies over the railing when he gets electrocuted.
• Rain of Blood: How Katherine notices one of the dead gurads.
• Shirtless Scene
• Shoot Out the Lock
• Token Girl: Katherine.
• Vertigo Effect: Shown when Sharpe handling the bullets for his revolver.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: We don't find out if the other prisoners survived Charlie's rampage.