1. Wedlock (1991)
What's the best way to keep people from escaping from a prison? Laser sharks? Walls with Marmite on? How about if you try to escape you'll probably get your head blown off? Yep, sounds good to me. OK, it's not the most original idea, Arnie's prison in The Running Man had a similar idea, but the beauty of Camp Holliday (you have to love that name) is that your exploding collar is paired with another convict. Stray 100 yards from each other and both collars will activate and before you know it you won't be attending any hat conventions in the near future. And, as you don't know who you are 'wedded' to, everyone is looking out for each other, making sure they don't try to escape. Brilliantly simple, and brutally effective -
as this magnificent clip shows (warning, contains, well, you can probably guess - but just in case you need to know -
punch, kick, punch, punch, grumble, swift counter, fiddle with collar, smart one liner, panic, noggin splodge x2). Anyway, those are the sort of institutions that keep me on the straight and narrow. I know there are loads more (I just had space for 10) so pop your nightmare prisons in the comments below if you fancy. Go on, I won't tell the warden.