Frank Grillo and Harvey Keitel in a prison-corporate-dystopia? The budget screams B-movie, the cast screams 'how did they afford this?'
North America has been divided into four main quadrants. A power-hungry corporation has taken over the conventional prison system and made criminals the new law enforcers. The owner of that corporation, nanoscientist Eion Prescott, created a nano-virus called Onyx. Which is distributed through deadly watches to criminals. First, infecting them. Then, forcing them into eliminating each other for freedom. Who can topple the corporation's entire system from within?
Acting
Keitel and Grillo carrying entire scenes through sheer commitment
Practical Effects
Gritty prison fights that feel accidentally vintage
Production
Dystopian world-building on what looks like $47
Director
Justin Price
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Justin Price has made over a dozen low-budget genre films since 2011, often casting himself in small roles. This is his biggest name cast to date.
The 'criminals as cops' premise echoes 1980s exploitation films like 'Dead Heat' and the real 1992 film 'Freejack,' but filtered through modern anxieties about private prisons and gig-economy labor.
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