Kristof‘s father recently bought the Hawthorne and set up a contest—based on his own skepticism for paranormal investigators—to prove the existence of a local legendary supernatural item, the Talon Key.
they use a ouija board and Allie is temporarily possessed by a witch’s spirit but claims she’s fine afterwards while Bill, Jeff, and Kat try to set up their scare outside.
Calvin catches a glimpse of Jeff as he walks past a window so he and Kristof search the grounds, leaving Michele and Rory to watch Allie.
[3] In 2011, director David DeCoteau detailed his work for Full Moon Features in Romania during the 1990s extensively in an episode[4] of Cinema Conversations with Stephen P. Jarchow.
After the success of Puppet Master III: Toulon's Revenge DeCoteau was put in charge of developing an erotic label for Full Moon, Torchlight Entertainment resulting in a position he described as "essentially the only staff director for Charles Band", where the expectation was that "every time [he] finished a movie, a new script would come out and [he] would start over".
[7] Prison of the Dead was released on DVD and VHS,[8] initially by Full Moon Home Entertainment on August 22, 2000 as a video premier.
[2] The film was screened as part of the 13 episode series William Shatner's 'Full Moon Fright Night' that originally premiered on SyFy (then spelled Sci Fi) in 2002.
The review criticizes the script for being full of uninspired dialogue and characters, “a nominal quest” and a lack of “any sort of plausible story”.
[7] A review in The Zombie Movie Encyclopedia, Volume 2: 2000-2010 by Peter Dendle says, "The dreary dungeon drama was filmed in Romania, and probably the only interesting thing about it is that the producer was named Vlad.
[12] A DVD and Video Guide 2005 review states, "Director David DeCoteau's ode to the old Spanish Blind Dead movies is a fun-filled frightfest as a Dim crew unleashes the guards that he buried in the grounds of the old prison in which they are filming".