Roger Mason is a prisoner locked away in a futuristic fortress of a jail. Desperate to escape and see his daughter, he keeps making attempt after attempt to break free, but each one is foiled just as he's about to gain his freedom. As his punishments include being frozen in suspended animation for years at a time, he stays the same age while his daughter grows older. As more time keeps being added to his sentence, he despairs of ever getting out.
Practical Effects
Gross cryo-chamber effects that aged like milk in a good way.
Acting
Gary Daniels sells impossible anguish with his fists and his face.
Director
Jeff Burr
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Gary Daniels did his own stunts and reportedly hated the cryo suit so much he nearly quit. The suit is now lost media legend.
This bombed in '98 but found second life on late-night cable—part of that weird wave of direct-to-video sci-fi that predicted modern prison-industrial complex anxieties.
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