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Released
1987 · FILM

Prison

“Horror has a new home.”

Directed by
Renny Harlin
Written by
Irwin Yablans, C Courtney Joyner
Runtime
102 min
CrimeDramaHorror

Synopsis

After Charles Forsyth is executed in the electric chair for a crime he did not commit, his spirit remains bound to the prison where he died. Years later the facility reopens under Warden Eaton Sharpe, a former security guard who had framed Forsyth. When inmates are instructed to demolish the wall leading to the execution chamber, they inadvertently release Forsyth’s angry spirit, which spreads murderous rage that eventually reaches the warden himself.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 19

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Andy HorvitchShot by Mac AhlbergScored by Richard BandDesigned by Philip Duffin

Box Office

1987 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.1× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$355K

Budget$4.0M
Worldwide gross$355K
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Prison - Rückkehr aus der Höllede

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