Brandon Gregory Well, I personally have been a fan of the movie for quite some time now. I see a lot of negativity towards this film, it's just a tad bit depressing but hey, everyone is entitled to their own opinion. I first saw Death Row on Sci-Fi(SyFy)a few years ago, On the guide it was listed as ''HAUNTED PRISON'' (Therefor making it extremely hard to find to purchase on DVD because the DVD title is ''DEATH ROW'', haha.) Surely enough, I came to my senses and looked the film up on here(IMDb) and ordered it right away.In a nutshell, Death Row (AKA Haunted Prison) is about two groups of people, one group just robbed a bank but came to the prison due to things not going as planned, so they went to hide out. While the second group was only trying to get some film on the prison for the documentary about the place they are filming. Both soon see that there is a lot wrong with the place... The rest is for you to see.The movie ,in my opinion, was a very solid horror film ( especially for a STARZ production for Sci-Fi.) Jake Busey did a really good job with his roll, he made the whole movie and set the tone of the film. All of the other actors and actresses weren't really special to the film, but I give them all credit for making the film believable and working in 2 actual abandoned prisons for most of the film. One of the prisons had no electricity, so i could imagine the difficulties with that.The gore in the film is actually pretty good and hard to believe it turned out so well with the budget that it was made with. I must say, when Anibal gets chopped up in the license plate machine, the effex and camera angles are very impressive. The scene where John chops off his legs in the gas chamber was pretty intense too. The scene where Ron gets pushed through the fence was definitely an idea I've never seen that before in a movie, I liked it. The make-up effex are over the top. Favorably, with the nun that can be seen several times throughout the movie.Overall, I love this movie and i would recommend it to anyone who likes horror. It's very good to watch this movie with friends, especially with some drinks or pop-corn. Just have a good time and i hope you enjoy the movie as much as I do.

quinnox-1 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.

deuce2828 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.

Jack I've watched almost every Sci-Fi Original for the past several years, and I have to say this is probably the best one yet. It doesn't do any of the things that usually makes these movies suck: It doesn't have MTV-style editing, it has likable, sympathetic characters speaking believable, witty dialogue, it has effective theme music, the special effects are actually cool looking, and because of all those factors, I actually found it quite interesting - usually I'm groaning and rolling my eyes after about 15 minutes of one of these things.We start with Stacy Keach, and old prison guard who is now in a convalescent home, being interviewed by some kids who want to do a documentary on the prison he used to work at. He relates the story of how some guards went nuts and caused a prison riot, resulting in a whole lot of bloodshed. It's quite interesting because as he tells the tale, he was just about the only innocent prison guard, but as we see the flashbacks, he was actually the ring leader. Not only does Stacy do a great job, but the flashback scenes are fairly brutal and the whole thing just has a nasty feel to it. As the opening credits start to roll, we get one hell of a spooky version of "Itsy Bitsy Spider" as the theme music. It's interestingly effective.Now, on to the prison. A group of people have just robbed a jewelry store, and they're using the place as a hideout. These people are great, especially the ring leader. He starts out as somewhat of a normal guy, certainly not very nice but strangely charming in his total lack of empathy for his business partners. We've also got a hot babe (really, really hot), a wounded guy, and several other characters. All have believable, entertaining personalities. Shortly afterwards, our documentary kids show up, and then all the prison doors mysteriously close and lock. Hey, it's the "Haunted Prison". The kids are also pretty good characters, we don't get the annoyingly blatant clichés so common in these Sci-Fi Channel movies, nor do we get the cringe-inducing "what adults think kids act like" embarrassments; these folks could actually be real people. Okay, a couple of them are rather over-the-top in how horny they are, but it's kept short and fairly low-key.As the movie goes on, the jewel thieves start looking for a way to get out, coming tantalizingly close several times, while the kids eventually join up with them. This is all handled in a rather complex and credible manner as well. The characters are just so believable and entertaining, and the situation handled in such a plausible way (for a haunted prison movie), that I was kept interested throughout. There's some great and original gore in this thing, as one guy is run through a license plate stamping machine, and one of the girls gets chopped up by a ceiling fan. The ghosts inhabiting the prison are done quite well, appearing as if there's some extreme heat shimmer coming off of them. And then there's the scene where the hot babe gets drenched in some sort of icky fluid from some broken pipes, and strips down to her undies to take a shower. I don't know about you, but that was one of the sexiest scenes I've seen in a long, long time.The ending, well, it was a bit cheesy, but I'm happy to accept that considering how fun the rest of the movie was.Overall, it's just astonishing what a gigantic difference a little bit of TALENT can make when it comes to film making. Congratulations to the film makers - you did what most of us though impossible - you made a good Sci-Fi Channel original movie! Unfortunately it's almost a certainty that next week it will be back to the usual loads of bargain basement CGI, characters you're wishing would die in the most horrible ways, and enough MTV-style fast-editing to make you feel like you're watching a strobe light instead of a movie. Oh well, at least now we know there IS hope.