with Kristof. His parents resent the rest of them for “leading him” into the paranormal lifestyle, which they disapprove of Michael Guerin as Rory - Calvin and Kristof’s best friend, he is sarcastic and cynical but the others only take him half seriously Debra Mayer as Michele - Carries a reputation of a party girl, has a cocaine habit and doesn’t consider the group the friends they once were Kim Ryan as Allie - mild tempered, she tries to keep the peace though succumbs to possession when they use the ouija board Jeff Peterson as Bill Alicia Arden as Cat Mac Fyfe as Jeff (uncredited) Claudiu Trandafir as Limo Driver (uncredited) Constantin Barbulescu as Chauffeur (uncredited) Production By the time production on Prison of the Dead began, producer Charles Band had been making films at Castel Film Romania for nearly a decade. He moved the production of his films to the country following 1989’s Puppet Master. In 2011, director David DeCoteau detailed his work for Full Moon Features in Romania during the 1990s extensively in an episode of Cinema Conversations with Stephen P. Jarchow. After the success of Puppet Master III: Toulon's Revenge DeCoteau was put in charge of developing an erotic label for Full Moon, Torchlight Entertainment resulting in a position he described as "essentially the only staff director for Charles Band", where the expectation was that "every time [he] finished a movie, a new script would come out and [he] would start over". When asked if foreign films had any influence on his own style, the director had this to say in a 1999 interview prior to release of Prison of the Dead: "...In terms of foreign exploitation films, like the Tombs of the Blind Dead films and stuff like that which have kind of this Eurotrash quality. I try to incorporate that sometimes in the films that I make, especially the films I make in Romania..." This film was conceived from and idea developed by director David DeCoteau and screenwriter Matthew Jason Walsh originally under the working title ‘Creepies’ and was filmed on jail sets leftover from Highlander: Endgame. Release Prison of the Dead was released on DVD and VHS, initially by Full Moon Home Entertainment on August 22, 2000 as a video premier. It was re-released on DVD in 2003 and has been included in at least 2 different DVD collections, with the most recent being