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"Death Row" tells the story of a formerly bullied prisoner who seeks revenge and goes on a killing spree, desperate to take the lives of as many prisoners and guards as possible during a program in an abandoned prison.

The movie tells its story more or less in the first ten minutes, everything that follows are just numberous repetitions of the same thing without much tension or any lessons to be learned. While there is some thought behind the killer getting away with it, some of the characters behave amazingly dumb and make you question how serious you can take the plot. The film is clearly low budget, which excuses some of the weaknesses, but nontheless a bit more twists and creativity would haver helped to prevent one and a half hours of the same thing over and over again. You do grow some dislike towards the killer, but who wouldn't under the given circumstances.

All in all this is only something for fans of low budget killing sprees, everyone else will find better movies to invest time in. As always, though, this is just my opinion and if you're eager to watch, go give it a try.

DEATH ROW is an indie horror/slasher flick about a bunch of convicts who visit an abandoned prison as part of a work programme. While there they begin to be murdered by persons unknown. I found this mildly amusing for an independent production and the real-life prison setting helps a lot. The film does suffer from having a slow pace and some overworked acting, as well as death scenes which are anything but realistic, but you could do worse.

This is the worst film I have ever seen. My friend and I enjoy watching horrible films and making fun of them, so in that respect, we had a good time. The writing, acting, directing, location and editing were unspeakably horrible. The entire film could have been shot on a tripod or security camera and it could not have been any worse for it. The concept of passing time did not apply as it seemed that every second of the time-line was covered. If you need to learn how to put chloroform on a rag in a bag, we watch the killer do this on three to four occasions in real-time for no apparent reason other than to fill time.

The creators obviously did no research on police procedure or what is said or not said over a police radio. I was begging for the fast forward button as the killer is talking over the walkie pretending to be injured to lure his victims for a chloroforming and either stabbing in the gut, throat slashing, or shooting to the head. Killing 12 guys at your disposal in an abandoned prison should afford more interesting murder methods. High School adolescents could have written a better screenplay.

Guards usually don't fire sidearms indoors to break up minor scuffles between inmates, or randomly point their weapon at inactive, obedient convicts. What could have been interesting with a character based approach was horribly dependent on a plot twist that was more like the sound of air being let out of a balloon. A rating of 1 is a compliment.