Death Row

Death Row

An abandoned prison. A dark past. And an evil... that will not die.

NR 2006 · 90 min · ★ 3.7 · Horror, Crime

Haunted Prison - AKA Death Row - a horrifying live action film based on the short story by Kevin VanHook-takes place at Isla de la Roca Penitentiary. Rumor has it the Devil himself spat up the place out of the depths of hell, and man turned it into a prison for the most dangerous prisoners in the South. The monstrous building is steeped in the evil created by centuries of murder and injustice and is haunted by vengeful ghosts. Isla de la Roca was abandoned after being soaked in blood by a horrific massacre of inmates and guards. A gang of fugitives from a cop-killing robbery seek refuge within the razor wire of the prison walls at the same time as a documentary film crew arrives to tell the story of the penitentiary. When these groups cross paths within the cruel walls of Isla de la Roca, will anyone get out alive?

Directed by Kevin VanHook · Written by Kevin VanHook

Your Rating

Where to Watch

Rent or Buy

Cast

Jake Busey Marco
Kyle Schmid Keith
Stacy Keach John Elias
Claire Coffee Missy
Scott Whyte Brian
Shanna Collins Lisa
Jamie Elle Mann Jasmine (as Jamie Mann)
Danny Arroyo Angel
Reynaldo Gallegos Hector
James Leo Ryan Vincent
Marco Rodríguez Ron
Danny Trejo Priest

Make it a double feature

2h 29m together

Death Row

Fantastic Flesh: The Art of Make-Up EFX

Both from Kevin VanHook.

More from Kevin VanHookSee all →

Heavy Vinyl

Heavy Vinyl · 2023

Denny and Jeremy love Heavy Metal and old school vinyl records, especially those rumored to have Subliminal Backwards Messages. When they find a copy of Sealed Fayte's infamous, banned and out-of-print debut album, they can't get it on the turntable fast enough - and that's when the s--t hits the fan leaving only them and Denny's sister, Hallie, to figure out how to save the world from the terror unleashed on 180gram heavy vinyl.

Bloodshot

Bloodshot · 2020

MovieActionScience Fiction

After he and his wife are murdered, marine Ray Garrison is resurrected by a team of scientists. Enhanced with nanotechnology, he becomes a superhuman, biotech killing machine—'Bloodshot'. As Ray first trains with fellow super-soldiers, he cannot recall anything from his former life. But when his memories flood back and he remembers the man that killed both him and his wife, he breaks out of the facility to get revenge, only to discover that there's more to the conspiracy than he thought.

Fantastic Flesh: The Art of Make-Up EFX

Fantastic Flesh: The Art of Make-Up EFX · 2008

Fantastic Flesh: The Art of Make-Up EFX

MovieDocumentaryTV Movie

This documentary delves into the art of make-up effects with industry legends Dick Smith, Rob Bottin, Tom Savini, John Landis, Frank Darabont, Joe Dante and many others with a strong focus on Greg Nicotero and Howard Berger of KNB Make-Up EFX. Written by Kevin VanHook

The Marine 5: Battleground

The Marine 5: Battleground · 2017

The Marine 5: Battleground

While working as an EMT back stateside Jake Carter after responding to a distress call, finds himself caught up protecting a person of interest from a biker gang ruthlessly hunting them down.

Hell Hath No Fury

Hell Hath No Fury · 2021

Hell Hath No Fury

Branded a traitor by her countrymen, French national Marie DuJardin is rescued by American soldiers on one condition: to survive, she must lead them to a cache of gold - before the Nazis return to claim it for themselves.

A Sunday Horse

A Sunday Horse · 2016

MovieDramaFamily

After a near-fatal accident, on a horse the experts thought was nothing special, a determined rider from the wrong side of the tracks defies all the odds to pursue her dreams of winning a national jumping championship.

Locked

MovieHorrorThriller

When Eddie breaks into a luxury SUV, he steps into a deadly trap set by William, a self-proclaimed vigilante delivering his own brand of twisted justice. With no means of escape, Eddie must fight to survive in a ride where escape is an illusion, survival is a nightmare, and justice shifts into high gear.

Boudica

Boudica · 2023

Inspired by events in A.D. 60, Boudica follows the eponymous Celtic warrior who rules the Iceni people alongside her husband Prasutagus. When he dies at the hands of Roman soldiers, Boudica’s kingdom is left without a male heir and the Romans seize her land and property. Driven to the edge of madness and determined to avenge her husband’s death, Boudica rallies the various tribes from the region and wages an epic war against the mighty Roman empire.

Dracula II: Ascension

Dracula II: Ascension · 2003

Dracula II: Ascension

A group of medical students discover the body of the infamous count. Soon, they find themselves in the middle of a bizarre and dangerous conflict when a shadowy figure offers them $30 million for the body so that he may harvest his blood.

Alpha Wolf

Alpha Wolf · 2018

MovieHorrorThriller

When Virginia and her husband Jack spend a long weekend in the idyllic countryside, they encounter a creature that tears their lives apart. While the attack has an effect on each of them, it brings out the worst in Jack.

Daredevil

Daredevil · 2003

MovieFantasyAction

A man blinded in a childhood accident fights crime using his superhumanly-elevated remaining senses.

Swim

MovieHorrorAction

After a storm floods a family's vacation rental home, they must get past a vicious shark that has found its way inside the house.

Hell Mountain

Hell Mountain · 2017

A young reporter falls prey to a mysterious ailment after investigating an abandoned house; a place known for tales of missing children and possible cannibalism where local teens dare each other to sneak in and poke around. As the reporter digs deeper and her friends venture out to search the house on their own, she discovers a connection to the legend of Hell Mountain and her own cloudy past.

Slayer

MovieActionHorror

An elite commando squad led by longtime soldier buddies Hawk and Grives run afoul of lethal and powerful vampires in a South American rain forest. Grieves gets turned into a vampire and becomes leader of a savage roving herd. Moreover, Hawk has to rescue his scientist ex-wife Dr. Laurie Williams from the bloodsuckers' evil clutches.

Sands of Oblivion

Sands of Oblivion · 2007

Sands of Oblivion

MovieActionAdventure

The film tells the story of a prop from the 1923 movie The Ten Commandments that was actually an authentic artifact from antiquity with cursed powers. In the modern day these resurface leading to murder and mayhem.

Voodoo Moon

Voodoo Moon · 2006

MovieDramaFantasy

Voodoo Moon takes place in the mid-west United States, where a demonic figure murders the entire population of a small town, save for one young boy and his sister. Twenty years later, the boy has been consumed with trying to track the devil down and now he thinks he's found him. His sister is now an artist who has developed psychic abilities which enable her to sense disaster, visions she expresses in her art. The two siblings work together in fighting the devil, and also get the assistance of several people they have helped over the years

More Like This

Down by Law

Down by Law · 1986

MovieCrimeDrama

A disc jockey, a pimp and an Italian tourist escape from jail in New Orleans.

Chicago

Chicago · 2002

MovieComedyCrime

Murderesses Velma Kelly and Roxie Hart find themselves on death row together and fight for the fame that will keep them from the gallows in 1920s Chicago.

3-Iron

MovieDramaRomance

A drifter lives in people's houses while they are away and repays them by doing chores for them. His life changes when he meets a beautiful woman who wants to escape her unhappy marriage.

Cool Hand Luke

Cool Hand Luke · 1967

MovieDramaCrime

When petty criminal Luke Jackson is sentenced to two years in a Florida prison farm, he doesn't play by the rules of either the sadistic warden or the yard's resident heavy, Dragline, who ends up admiring the new guy's unbreakable will. Luke's bravado, even in the face of repeated stints in the prison's dreaded solitary confinement cell, "the box," make him a rebel hero to his fellow convicts and a thorn in the side of the prison officers.

Cape Fear

Cape Fear · 1991

MovieDramaCrime

Sam Bowden is a small-town corporate attorney. Max Cady is a tattooed, cigar-smoking, Bible-quoting, psychotic rapist. What do they have in common? 14 years ago, Sam was a public defender assigned to Max Cady's rape trial, and he made a serious error: he hid a document from his illiterate client that could have gotten him acquitted. Now, the cagey Cady has been released, and he intends to teach Sam Bowden and his family a thing or two about loss.

Brubaker

Brubaker · 1980

MovieCrimeDrama

The new warden of a small prison farm in Arkansas tries to clean it up of corruption after initially posing as an inmate.

Final Destination 3

Final Destination 3 · 2006

Final Destination 3

MovieHorrorMystery

High school senior Wendy's premonition of a deadly rollercoaster ride saves her life and a lucky few, but not from death itself — which seeks out those who escaped their fate.

Rivals

MovieActionCrime

The story of two rival brothers, one a pimp and the other a cop, and how the former manages to be the family favourite.

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World · 1963

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

MovieAdventureComedy

A group of strangers come across a man dying after a car crash who proceeds to tell them about the $350,000 he buried in California. What follows is the madcap adventures of those strangers as each attempts to claim the prize for himself.

Another 48 Hrs.

Another 48 Hrs. · 1990

Another 48 Hrs.

MovieActionComedy

For the past four years, San Francisco cop Jack Cates has been after an unidentified drug kingpin who calls himself the Ice Man. Jack finds a picture that proves that the Ice Man has put a price on the head of Reggie Hammond, who is scheduled to be released from prison on the next day.

The Life of David Gale

The Life of David Gale · 2003

The Life of David Gale

MovieDramaThriller

A man against capital punishment is accused of murdering a fellow activist and is sent to death row.

Le Cercle Rouge

Le Cercle Rouge · 1970

Le Cercle Rouge

MovieCrimeDrama

When French criminal Corey gets released from prison, he resolves to never return. He is quickly pulled back into the underworld, however, after a chance encounter with escaped murderer Vogel. Along with former policeman and current alcoholic Jansen, they plot an intricate jewel heist. All the while, quirky Police Commissioner Mattei, who was the one to lose custody of Vogel, is determined to find him.

The Olsen Gang Sees Red

The Olsen Gang Sees Red · 1976

The Olsen Gang Sees Red

MovieFamilyComedy

Egon and the gang are hired to stage a robbery of an antique Chinese vase for an economically challenged baron. Naturally they fooled, which infuriates Egon. The gang tries to get back at the baron by switching the vase with a cheap Hong Kong copy. One attempt is made during the barons hunting party, where Egon ends up being bricked up in the catacombs. In another attempt, the gang has to coordinate breaking through several walls at The Royal Theater in Copenhagen with the "Elverhøj" overture.

A Better Tomorrow

A Better Tomorrow · 1986

A Better Tomorrow

MovieActionCrime

A reforming ex-gangster tries to reconcile with his estranged policeman brother, but the ties to his former gang are difficult to break.

Take the Money and Run

Take the Money and Run · 1969

Take the Money and Run

MovieComedyCrime

Virgil Starkwell is intent on becoming a notorious bank robber. Unfortunately for Virgil and his not-so-budding career, he is completely incompetent.

Wilderness

Wilderness · 2006

MovieHorrorAction

Juvenile delinquents are sent to a small British island after a fellow prisoner's death, where they must fight for survival.

Blues Brothers 2000

Blues Brothers 2000 · 1998

Blues Brothers 2000

MovieActionComedy

Finally released from prison, Elwood Blues is once again enlisted by Sister Mary Stigmata in her latest crusade to raise funds for a children's hospital. Hitting the road to re-unite the band and win the big prize at the New Orleans Battle of the Bands, Elwood is pursued cross-country by the cops.

Rate this film

Your ratings make Midnight smarter