Furnace (2007)

Detective Michael Turner investigates mysterious deaths that occur in and around a maximum-security prison. What begins as just another suicide and murder case unfolds into a furious ... See full summary »

Director:

William Butler

Writers:

Scott Aronson, William Butler,

Stars:

Michael Paré, Ja Rule, Jenny McShane

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Michael Paré	...	Detective Michael Turner
Ja Rule	...	Terrence Dufresne (as Jeffrey 'Ja Rule' Atkins)
Jenny McShane	...	Dr. Ashley Carter
Danny Trejo	...	Fury
Tom Sizemore	...	Frank Miller
Kelly Stables	...	Karen Bolding
Paul Wall	...	Joey Robbins
Cowboy Troy	...	Officer Troy (as 'Cowboy' Troy Coleman)
Clay Steakley	...	Scags
Taylor Kinney	...	Bill Jamison
Richard Cowl	...	Simon Furst (as Richard S. Cowl)
Andy Stahl	...	Warden Patt (as Andrew Stahl)
Frank Knapp Jr.	...	Warden Ephrem White (as Frank Knapp)
Todd Truley	...	Officer Murphy
Victoria Hester	...	Lucille White

Storyline

Detective Michael Turner investigates mysterious deaths that occur in and around a maximum-security prison. What begins as just another suicide and murder case unfolds into a furious struggle to uncover the unexplainable while escaping death at the hands of a vengeful spirit unleashed within the prison walls.

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Taglines:

Somewhere between prison and hell lies the furnace.

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Genres:

Crime | Horror | Mystery | Thriller

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Details

Official Sites:

Official site

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

12 February 2008 (USA)

Also Known As:

A Fornalha

Filming Locations:

Nashville, Tennessee, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$3,000,000 (estimated)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Melee Entertainment, Swirl Films

Technical Specs

Runtime:

90 min

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Trivia

The 'Morgue Set' was actually filmed in what used to be the penitentiary metal shop.

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Connections

References Boyz n the Hood (1991)

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Soundtracks

"You Should Be Here"
Written by Haavard Christopher Hana and Anfinn Skulevold
Performed by Laura Drew
Under license from Greentime Publishing

User Reviews

All seen before, but still watchable...

If you like horror movies, here's a good warm-up flick Furnace. It is a mish mash of different ideas and takes on the same things that we have seen in so many other movies. Lets start with the setting, an old prison (wow how imaginative, at least it's not an old hospital, and then continue with the haunting story, a troubled detective and all we need know are some twists in the story that I will leave for you. That being said the movie itself is watchable, that old abandoned section of the prison really looks spooky and the furnace itself is scary as hell. There is that eerie vibe that anything can jump out at any given time, and this is the thing that made the movie good. Actors were mostly C list, with a few exceptions (Tom Sizemore, Michael Paré and Danny Trejo are B's) and they've done their job accordingly.

After a series of strange and mysterious deaths in a maximum security penitentiary Blackgate(what an appropriate name) Detective Michael Turner is called to investigate the case. Although they were attributed to drugs by a Blackgate psychiatrist Dr. Ashley Carter, he senses that something is very wrong. And that feeling increases as he finds out that a recently opened prison block was closed for fifty years because the previous warden was murdered there. It seems that that prison block has a secret that just wants to be discovered and it does not care who is in its path… Check out my review site Rabbit-Reviews for movies that are worth watching, Rabbit out...