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1.0 out of 5 stars
movie sucked, December 29, 2007
This review is from: Prison Of the Psychotic Damned (DVD)
the other reveiws must've been done by people in the film.
laugh out loud funny efx. a script that wouldve been rejected by ed wood.
this movie and i use that term loosely,is horrendous on so so many levels.
i cant waste any more time on this. i need a shower.
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1.0 out of 5 stars
Prison of the pathetically bored., April 15, 2010
This review is from: Prison Of the Psychotic Damned (DVD)
Prison of the Psychotic Damned (D. W. Kann, 2006)
Lesson of the day: when you go seeking out a movie called Prison of the Psychotic Damned, you get what you deserve.
I first encountered Melantha Blackthorne in her first movie, 2004's The Night They Returned. While it's not a good movie by any means, it's enthusiastic and it's got some fun ideas, and the entire cast looked to be having a ball with it. The three leads, I thought, all had potential to become decent actresses. Six years later, Elizabeth Faure is MIA, Suzi Lorraine has a small recurring role on a TV soap (as well as starring in direct-to-video horror cheapies), and Melantha Blackthorne landed herself a small uncredited role in 2008's Death Race. It's not a good time to be a scream queen, I guess. And I know it's useless to try and pull nostalgia out as a factor; the bad horror movies of the seventies were just as bad as, if not worse than, brainless crap like Prison of the Psychotic Damned. But unlike The Night They Returned, this is a movie that looks as if no one involved had any fun making it whatsoever.
The somewhat useless plot involves five supposed ghost hunters (I have yet to see a ghost hunter movie that looks as if anyone who worked on it actually met a real ghost hunter) bunking down for the night in an abandoned trains station that was at one point converted to a temporary asylum where, of course, all manner of horrors were perpetrated on the inmates. Yes, you've heard this before, in many better movies. In any case, they're headed up by Rayna Bloom (Steampipe Alley's Susan Adriensen), a local professor, and her toady/cameraman Jason (Jim Vaughn in his only screen appearance). Tagging along with them for various reasons are three odd women. There's Kansas (Blackthorne), who we know is the final girl, because we have an extended opening scene with her before she flashes back to the events in question. There's Aurora (Demona Bast in her only screen appearance), a medium/psychic/something we can never quite figure out, but who has the inevitably dark past; and there's Nessie (Ancient Evil 2's Noel Francomano), a sqee-ing fangirl who loves the professor and just wants to be a part of one of her documentaries. Never mind that everyone pretty much hates everyone else; family dynamics obviously didn't enter into the minds of the scriptwriters.
No, actually, they did. There is what should be a key scene about halfway through where, if I followed the dialogue correctly, we find out two of the characters are almost related (stepsiblings, I think, but nothing is made explicit except that they are not blood relations). I say this should be a key scene because that's the kind of information that just begs to be explored farther on in the script, maybe even made important to the actions of the characters later. But no, it's simply left where it is. (There's a scene quite like it at the beginning of the similarly execrable movie Flu Bird Horror that's almost as frustrating.) I could go on about the problems with the script and the plot, but let's face it, we'd be here all day.
In the end, there's only one reason to watch this movie: Blackthorne, Bast, and Francomano all have topless scenes of varying length. (Actually, the one truly effective scene in this movie is Francomano's nude scene, and even more surprisingly, it's not effective because she's unclothed. It goes for the gross-out, and thanks to better effects work than there is anywhere else in the movie, it works.) If lovely breasts are your thing, you'll get about three minutes' worth scattered throughout the movie. If you're looking for some thrills, or even a few laughs, this is not the movie for you. No, not at all. *
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Worth Checking Out this Independent Film from Buffalo, April 23, 2007
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"Prison of the Psychotic Damned: is a fun filled scary little independent film that will remind you of "The Haunting", but done with a clearly modern feel. As in "The Haunting" the location is the real star, this time being the Buffalo Central Terminal which is an effect that Hollywood can't build. The 17 story Art Deco train building was build in 1929 and abandoned in 1979 and has been left in a broken shell of it's former self. Even if the film did not have it's share of scares, the shadows in the building would have made the site seem haunted. The mood is set by the opening credits (by Mike Bohatch) which flash images of horror with views of the terminal before it fell into ruins (music by Buffalo band the Voodoo Dollies).
The film is directed by D.W. Kahn and written by producer David Williams who team up to give the movie a slow build with a history lesson of the evil that has grown in the building. Five ghost hunters let by Professor Bloom (Susie Adriansen), comic Jim Vaughan and Scream Queen Melantha Blackthorne spend a terror filled night at the terminal, and will any of them survive? Buy this gem and find out.
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