Death Row (2006)

I noticed one person who commented here gave this flick a rating of 10-out-of-10, while others said 1/10. As a public service, I'll assume that EVERY movie starts out as a "10," and then in most cases loses points as it goes along. Here is where DEATH ROW lost out on more than half of its potential, plunging to a 4-of-10 (my rating and the IMDb user average):The original Science Fiction TV Channel title--HAUNTED PRISON--is not only better but more apt than the DVD retitled "DEATH ROW." Minus 2.The climactic prison fireworks special effects were even lamer than those in the ending of INDIANA JONES AND THE RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK. If your CGI & special effects budgets are used up by the last scene of your movie, REWRITE--do not fill the departing viewer's memory with a final taste of crap! Minus 2.Two electrocutions-in-the-electric-chair scenes are redundant. Ditto the strangulation-style killings of both Jasmine and Lisa. Minus 1.A father-son angle is passable. The grandpa-father-son closing of DEATH ROW is a plain mishmash as presented here, with the grandpa's ghost younger than his two descendants, and apparently played by the same actor as the grandson in the scene. Minus 1.

I'm sorry,but this movie was not good at all.the gore was not realistic,and the death scenes elicited big yawns from me.i saw no point to this movie.it is like hundreds of others and adds nothing to the horror genre.i found the acting bad even by horror movie standards.i could not finish the whole movie,because it made my jaw too sore from yawning.i don't think too many people would consider this movie a good use of their time.most people would probably stop watching long before the end.i don't know how many ways i can say this,but this movie is just not good. just in case i haven't been clear,i didn't like it.I'll give "Death Row" 1/5

I see the IMDb rating is a 3, and I think it's about right. The best part of this movie are some decent gore scenes, but the rest is pretty poor. I do like the premise, an old haunted prison, but not much is done with it. Not scary or suspenseful, and the actors don't impress. I don't know what the previous reviewers who all gave it a good review saw in this but it wasn't a good horror movie, even for a B-movie. I will say the special effects on some of the gore were well done. Stacey Keach was the only star you would know, and he seemed to sleepwalk through his role. The rest of the cast are all unknowns. It's too bad because the story could have been a good one, if a big Hollywood budget was available I could see this storyline having some potential. As it is I wouldn't waste a rental on this like I did on Netflix.

I love horror films. The more gore the better. Sometimes I watch Sci Fi to see there lineup of horror films. They usually suck and are damn corny. Not so for "Haunted Prison". It was more than I expected Sci Fi to be capable of, and I hope it continues to put out good films."Haunted Prison" is about a gang of jewel thieves who hide out in an abandoned prison. Little do they know, the prison is haunted and it's ghost occupants are angry. As luck would have it, a group of college kids arrives, at practically the same time, to shoot a documentary about the prison. What takes place next is lots of screams, surprises, blood, gore, death, and all mixed in with some laughs and half naked women.Jake Busey stars as the leader of the bad guys. What the rest of his crew is unaware of is that Jake can see the ghosts and that his grand dad was a former prison inmate. Jake made me laugh a few times with his takes. Sometimes I wish he was meaner than funny. Stacy Keach and Danny Trejo round up the star names. They were not the film enough, but what they did was very good. Seeing Stacy hatch away his two legs with an ax was great. I'm glad Sci Fi allowed it in the movie.The rest of the cast was mostly unknown actors, but they all did a very good job. I can remember times where I cringed watching other films and the acting was so horrible. Not so for "Haunted Prison". Looking up the actors names on IMDb, I understand why they were good.Some memorable scenes for me... Ron getting smashed up against the metal bars and turning into human spaghetti. Awesome!!! Anibal getting run through a license plate machine. Jake and Brian's reaction to it was great. I could have slapped Missy when her ring hit the metal bar and alerted Jake to their presence. An embarrassed Angel asking Jasmine if she was gonna take a dump. Hilarious! Hector getting pulled into the electric chair was well done. Lisa and especially Jasmine were hot. The shower scene was nice. Great body. Too bad nudity wasn't allowed. Maybe the DVD.I look forward to more Sci Fi films like this.