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The Prison of the Dead

The Prison of the Dead

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Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Not a bad little film to pass the time
Review: First of all, this movie is not scary at all. The characters walk around the prison until they are frozen in place at random and then killed. You do not feel for any of the characters, and you can't even cheer them on since they just get stuck where they are before you even know they are in danger and then it is over for them. This film is a great example of horror writers who have no education on the basic elements of horror.

Why should you even check this film out? This film is quite progressive on the issue of sexual minorities. There are three bisexual guys in the film. One who hits on another character, while the other two reflect upon their sexual history with each other. It comes as quite a surprise in this film because it seemed to come out of nowhere. It inadvertently normalizes the experience of sexual minorities and is worth viewing for that reason alone.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Prison of the Bi-guys
Review: First of all, this movie is not scary at all. The characters walk around the prison until they are frozen in place at random and then killed. You do not feel for any of the characters, and you can't even cheer them on since they just get stuck where they are before you even know they are in danger and then it is over for them. This film is a great example of horror writers who have no education on the basic elements of horror.

Why should you even check this film out? This film is quite progressive on the issue of sexual minorities. There are three bisexual guys in the film. One who hits on another character, while the other two reflect upon their sexual history with each other. It comes as quite a surprise in this film because it seemed to come out of nowhere. It inadvertently normalizes the experience of sexual minorities and is worth viewing for that reason alone.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Just Saw this on TV
Review: I just saw this movie on the SciFi Channel. The name and description my dish network gave to describe the movie mislead me into believing it would be something I'd like. This movie is lacking in many areas.

The story has no flow to it. Things just seem to happen at random. The initial awakening of the zombies, for example, made no sense to me. Maybe I missed something, or possibly a part was cut to make the movie fit into the television timeslot, but it seemed really random. Some blood drops from a statue of a dog or a gargoyle or something like that onto the ground. The dirt then begins to move and three zombies come out from under it, with no reason given for the blood to have been there in the first place. There's plenty of other things that are odd and don't quite fit in well, but I won't mention them because I don't want to give away the story.

The special effects in this movie are also a bit short of amazing. The zombies look terrible and the scenes in which humans are possessed by the souls of witches are quite bad as well. Various other small things, like the glowing red eyes of the undead look horribly fake.

This movie is not completely terrible, considering the fact I actually watched the whole thing. The initial idea for the story seems to be pretty good, but the final script is definitely flawed. I thought the sets used in the film were really cool, and the death scenes were pretty neat as well. I've seen plenty of horror movies that are much better than this, but I've also seen a ton of them that are much, much worse. As a movie in general, The Prison of the Dead is sub-par at best. But when compared to other horror movies, especially recent ones, this movie isn't too bad.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: escape while you can!
Review: I was going to give this movie a harsh review, then I noticed the single review that already existed for this movie. The person loved it! So I thought that perhaps I had selected the wrong movie. There is no picture for it listed.
But just in case there is only ONE Prison Of The Dead let me just say this. No action, no killing, no prisoners! If this is the movie I remember,then the only good part about it was that at the end they interviewed eact actor. It was sooooooo funny, because these actors were taking the interview so seriously, like they were on Johnny Carson's tonight show (the movie seems that old). Anyway, do not waste your time on this one. I'm off to find a good movie to review now.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: this movies blows!
Review: if you can get this movie for under $3.00 do it, otherwise leave it be. youd be better off to sit in front of your tv with it off for 80-something minutes.

not even really a zombie movie. there are i guess what you would call zombies, but they dont eat any one. everyone knows that zombies are hungry for flesh. it looks like the movie was made in about a week on one set. theres a tease of seeing some erotica, but then your let down hard.

unless your a stoner and can sit and watch bad movies, just for watching bad movies, steer clear of this one.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: DEATH ROW
Review: Poorly done zombie flick that never scares up any scares, and has some preposterous gaps in credibility and editing. Where in the world did the blood come from that brought the executioners back? Why was the most despicable character in the movie the only one who survived? What was this thing about Bill being hired to beat up Christoph? Huh?....no one in the cast can be accused of acting; you may recognize Samuel Page from "The Brotherhood", but the rest of the cast is pretty unknown and will probably stay that way.
Directors should also realize by now that watching zombies move slow mo in their death walks is about as exciting as (one of the characters in this movie says: An episode of Baywatch Nights).
Ho hum.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: DEATH ROW
Review: Poorly done zombie flick that never scares up any scares, and has some preposterous gaps in credibility and editing. Where in the world did the blood come from that brought the executioners back? Why was the most despicable character in the movie the only one who survived? What was this thing about Bill being hired to beat up Christoph? Huh?....no one in the cast can be accused of acting; you may recognize Samuel Page from "The Brotherhood", but the rest of the cast is pretty unknown and will probably stay that way.
Directors should also realize by now that watching zombies move slow mo in their death walks is about as exciting as (one of the characters in this movie says: An episode of Baywatch Nights).
Ho hum.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: negative infinity stars }:(
Review: The movie starts when these annoying yuppies go to a prison. One of the yuppies performs a ritual that's suppose to scare the other yuppies. But it was a joke. OH but the ritual actually DID did raise a whopping 3 zombies from the ground and they hunt down and kill those fools (YES! THEY ALL MUST DIE!!!!!! I ACTUALLY WISH THEY KILLED THEM IN REAL LIFE!!!!!) and turns them into zombies as well. :) So one final yuppie survives the whole thing and that's all! THE END!

OK! I HATE THIS FILM WITH SUCH BURNING HATRED!!!! The acting is so annoying, I actually punched the T.V. to try and shut them up!Especially that one yuppie who kept licking his lips (that should tell you something). Everything about this movie is stupid!!!!!!
(not many zombies)

most entertaining part: when all those yuppies DIE!!!!!!!

PEACE, and RESPECT :)

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: great movie
Review: this movie was excellent, great special effects, a great movie to buy, so go pick up a copy

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Incredible!
Review: This was the most incredible Zombie movie I have ever seen. State of the art special effects and wonderful acting. Superb storyline and incredible directing. A++


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