Cocky young attorney Michael Gray finds himself framed for murder when an inmate he is defending violently kills himself during their interview at South River State Penitentiary. Now locked in the same nightmarish Cell 213 where his client died, he soon realizes that unnatural forces are behind a string of inmate suicides, making matters of guilt and innocence not as cut and dry as they seem.
Acting
Michael Rooker chews scenery as a grizzled guard with secrets.
Production
Cell 213 itself — claustrophobic set design that works overtime.
Director
Stephen Kay
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot in an actual decommissioned prison in Ontario, Canada — some cast members refused to enter certain wings alone.
The film's 5.1 rating is deceptively harsh; it found cult life in the 'so bad it's good' prison horror niche, especially among Rooker completists.
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