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That Time They Made A Horror Movie In The Old Penitentiary

That Time They Made A Horror Movie In The Old Penitentiary

Update: 2024-07-08

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In 1987, a town known more for refinery workers and antelope herds saw a Hollywood production company arrive to make a horror movie in it old penitentiary. After finding out that the 300 real inmates the filmmakers were planning on using were not going to be available, railroad workers, accountants, and roughnecks showed up to be in Renny Harlin's film Prison about the ghost of a wrongfully executed prisoner seeking revenge.

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That Time They Made A Horror Movie In The Old Penitentiary

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