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Reyes</B></div> <div> <B>Producer...........Anthony Jones</B></div> <div> <B>Executive Producers.....Angelika & Joseph Saleh</B></div> <div> <B>Story Suggested by Montieth M. Illingworth & Graham Yost</B></div> <div> <B>Special Make-up Effects by Tom Lauten</B></div> <div> <B>The Eye and Callahan's Face by Michael Tabacco & Joseph Laudati</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Dramatis Personae</U></B></div> <div> <B>Dr. H. Woodhouse Langer..James Coco (</B><I><B>The Cheap Detective, Murder by Death</B></I><B>)</B></div> <div> <B>Lisa Titus...........................Trini Alvarado (</B><I><B>The Babe, Satisfaction, Stella</B></I><B>)</B></div> <div> <B>Warden Edward Dwyer......Paul Benedict (</B><I><B>Arthur II, Man With Two Brains</B></I><B>)</B></div> <div> <B>Rick Donner......................Gary McCleery (</B><I><B>Hard Choices</B></I><B>)</B></div> <div> <B>Warden Callahan..............John Bentley (</B><I><B>Flight from Vienna</B></I><B>)</B></div> <div> <B>Tiny...................................Ron Taylor </B></div> <div> <B>Mazzini.............................Mark Von Holstein</B></div> <div> <B>Wilma...............................Calvin Levels (</B><I><B>Johnny Suede</B></I><B>)</B></div> <div> <B>Mushmouth.......................Brad Greenquest (</B><I><B>Mutants in Paradise</B></I><B>)</B></div> <div> <B>Pizza.................................Paul Alfonso Calderon (</B><I><B>Bad Lieutenant</B></I><B>)</B></div> <div> <B>Romeo..............................Antonio Aponte</B></div> <div> <B>Walkman..........................Jihmi Kennedy</B></div> <div> <B>Wilson..............................Mike Starr (</B><I><B>Mardi Gras for the Devil</B></I><B>)</B></div> <div> <B>Luis..................................Jaime Tirelli</B></div> <div> <B>Riot Leader......................Richard Edson (</B><I><B>Do the Right Thing, Platoon</B></I><B>)</B></div> <div> <B>Roach..............................Stephen Geoffreys (</B><I><B>Fright Night, 976-EVIL</B></I><B>)</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Critique</U></B><B>: Although the pace is somewhat plodding, there are some fairly amusing spoofs of seventies style therapeutic measures. We spend a good deal of time with character actor James Coco as Dr. Langer, but he is entertaining enough that just watching him is enjoyable. In general, the film has a light comic touch that doesn't generally become oppressive. Some pretty good acting among the inmates and a very moody prison building sets a scary backdrop for the proceedings. That the authority figures, the once mad psychiatrist, and the guilty warden, don't believe their own eyes, much less their programs, is a frightening image, as is that of the prisoners, who are incapable of any loyalty to Doc, after they had appeared to bond with him. Some fine chills along the way, the chair may not keep you strapped to your seat, but it's worth a look.    </B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Plot Summary</U></B><B>: A newspaper lies discarded, the front page reading "Prison Riot ends in Mystery." Warden Callahan is missing and is presumed dead. As Lisa Titus comes to see Dr. Langer, prison psychiatrist, about a job, Warden Dwyer meets eight new inmates who have been moved out of high security. Dr. Langer introduces himself to the inmates as Doc, invoking Steinbeck's "Cannery Row", with a lighter, therapeutic style to which the inmates seem to respond well. Through rolfing and other techniques it looks like he and Lisa are making progress with them. There is a low level draw on the power at the prison and the electrician must go into the abandoned death row area to look into the problem. Strict Warden Dwyer suspects something is up and follows the electrician. As Warden Dwyer watches, a strange shock goes through the prison touching anyone who was in contact with an electrical device. Dr. Langer hands out notebooks for the inmates to write their dreams into. The warden has noticed something peculiar about one of the light bulbs. It sometimes has an eye in it and it mutters at him. Dwyer goes to the doctor to ask about it. Langer leads his wards in a chant of "I'm okay, you're okay". Dwyer wants Donner, who's been reading Kafka, to inform on his fellow inmates. Dwyer has become obsessed with the electrical works. When he turns up the power, something mutters to him and he becomes more nervous. Lisa is making therapeutic progress with Donner as his hand strokes hers during the psychiatric testing. The prisoners get Chinese food. The fan needs to be fixed, but Doc insists strangely that they not call valley power and rather that he can fix it himself. A strange shock goes through the fans and into the cells. The grouchy guard is fried and then pulled into the fan. In the therapy session the next day, the inmates process the event. The inmates who all were laughing during the guard's dismemberment agree that it was a sad thing and that they would like to send a card to the family. The cheap light bulb has been talking to Dwyer again. Investigators have come looking about the valley power man who has been missing since he went to investigate the problem. Doc covers up his going missing. Later he apparently has hidden the man's helmet, and Lisa asks him about the hardhat and Doc gives a lame excuse. The next day at a birthday party, the lights go out. Dwyer gets a call and has phantom memories of the inmates manhandling former Warden Callahan who is now haunting the prison. Dwyer goes to the electric chair room and sees someone being electrocuted there and a vision of cheering inmates. Shocks begin coursing through the prison as the eye watches from a light bulb. The prisoners are shocked again and again. The next day in therapy, the men are agitated. Doc says it was all a shared nightmare experience. Roach hypothesizes that Doc is a mad scientist who is experimenting on them as though they were rats. When he tells his theory to Doc, he begins to feel his methods aren't working. When Doc sees Callahan frying on the chair, he is shocked. Dwyer has been changing the fuses three times a day. Dr. Langer decides to show Lisa the frying warden Callahan apparition. Lisa is horrified, but all she sees is an electric chair covered with cobwebs. The pill popping Langer calls his therapist and it comes out he had had a breakdown in the past and is "seeing the monsters" again. Dwyer goes to Langer and recounts the riot. Dwyer says he freed himself and left Callahan to go for help. Warden Callahan was dragged past him as he hid, placed in the chair, and electrocuted. As Doc goes to apologize to the inmates about not believing their electricity story, he gets an especially rude response from the inmates who are then making their escape. Ed seems to know something is up and sets himself up with a rifle. Lisa, who was told to wait by doctor Langer, is caught by the prisoners. Dwyer seems to be fighting phantasms and is pulled along to the execution room as the electrifying conclusion begins. </B></div> </td> </tr></table></body>