18 Insane Movie Prisons

Just try busting out of them

By Josh WinningJan 10th 2011
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Fortress (1992)

The Prison: Maximum security prison privately owned by the MenTel Corporation. It’s way underground, a bit like hell.

The Inmates: Ex-US Army officer John Henry Brennick and his wife Karen, who’ve violated population laws by illegally getting pregnant for a second time.

The Insane: Not only is it a futuristic underground prison that you’d be lucky to get out of alive, the mind-altering processes enacted by Director Poe are something else entirely. Interfering with dreams, strapping prisoners into giant spinning things, he's a madder, seriously corrupt Frankenstein.

How To Escape: You’ll need lots of firepower, one friend who’s a demolitions expert and another who’s tough as nails. Plus balls of steel.
 

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    • oui3d

      Jan 10th 2011, 8:46

      No Absolom? You do an insanes movie prisons and forgot "No Escape", top bats**t prison flick and you've got... Carbonite? You've probably never seen Roadhouse have you? I despair. Go to movie hell where all movies are Rifftrax featuring Justin Bieber, Zac Efron and Paris Hilton and probably 3D. And where's the LA cryogenic prison from Demolition Man?

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    • edwardlionheart

      Jan 10th 2011, 9:58

      Nice write ups but come on, missing lots of classics (and plenty other not so classic... ;-) In addition to the Demolition Man's Cocteau Cryoprison and No Escape's Absolom Island... where's Camp Holliday and its exploding neck collars from the film Wedlock?? Stephen "Ned Ryerson!" Tobolowsky is the g*****ned Warden!! Exploding neck collars stolen from Running Man's opening prison scene by the way! check out my list at http://moviemiscellany.com/some-fictional-prisons-from-films/

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    • Hadouken76

      Jan 10th 2011, 10:07

      Hey what about Cube? Or The Matrix? " A prison for the mind"

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    • daz8778

      Jan 10th 2011, 17:19

      SHAWSHANK jesus people!!!

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    • matty2392

      Jan 10th 2011, 18:18

      Shutter Island??

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    • Destrachan

      Jan 10th 2011, 20:36

      Escape from New York? Hello....

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    • veers

      Jan 10th 2011, 23:09

      So, a *lot* of omissions. To summarise: - Demolition Man - Escape From Absolom - Escape From New York - The Matrix (high concept prison) Cube isn't technically a prison, more like an experiment. And Shawshank doesn't fullfill the "insane" requirement. And Total Film, for frak's sake, learn to type Alien³ correctly. It's this easy, see?

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    • Devilangeldude

      Jan 11th 2011, 11:04

      Oh in Superman 2, that wasn't Red Kryptonite!! Red Kryptonite makes you lose your morals more or less, it wouldn't have made them lose their powers. Blue would have done that.

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    • Hadouken76

      Jan 12th 2011, 1:22

      Crematoria...

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