Death RowBy Ross Forbes, Blockbuster.co.uk
Sometimes you just want to tell someone about a new horror film…..
Barry: So what’s this horror movie about?
Keith: A prison
Barry: With mad prisoners and stuff?
Keith: No, better than that, it’s an old abandoned prison
Barry: So what happened to the place?
Keith: The guards and prisoners went crazy and killed each other
Barry: Well that sounds like the end of the film then
Keith: Nope, that’s just the beginning
Barry: So, does it ghosts and stuff like that?
Keith: Yes
Barry: What about teenagers, all horror films have teenagers?
Keith: Yep, there is a teenage film crew making a documentary in the place
Barry: Cool
Keith: That’s not all, there is a gang from a robbery gone wrong trapped in there with them
Barry: Teenagers, ghosts, robbers and all in an old prison?
Keith: What more can a horror movie want?
Barry: So is there anyone famous in it then?
Keith: Stacy Keach
Barry: Who’s she?
Keith: She’s a he, he was in
Escape from LA, and it also stars
Jake Busey
Barry: From
Under Siege?
Keith: No, that was his Dad. Jake was in
The Frighteners and
Identity
Barry: Ah, I know the guy, white hair and mad smile
Keith: That’s him. It also has a cast of people that you have seen in loads of things, no one famous, but loads of character actors.
Barry: What about gore? I mean it’s a horror film it has to have gore
Keith: By the bucket load, they don’t skimp on that. Lets recap: Teenagers
Barry: Check
Keith: Haunted old prison?
Barry: Check
Keith: Expendable criminals on the run?
Barry: Check
Keith: Cheesy fun horror movie dialogue?
Barry: Check
Keith: Double Check that one. Burnt up and mangled prisoner ghosts?
Barry: Check. You are right what more can a horror movie want?
Keith: Then it’s time to be sent to Death Row