10 Most Ominous Cinematic Prisons

When the name of a place is an anagram of “nowhere”, it is safe to say that escape might not be an option. This prison is a barbaric, technologically advanced fortress that holds the worst of the worst.

While searching for a bomb that terrorist Castor Troy (Nicolas Cage) had planted somewhere in Los Angeles, FBI agent Sean Archer (John Travolta) assumes his identity through experimental surgery, conducted with Troy in a coma. He then infiltrates Erewhon, a prison where Troy’s brother is incarcerated, in order to glean information on the bomb.

This bizarre institution is located away from everything sacred and civilized. As one of the guards explains it in an unfriendly manner, the Geneva Convention is void at Erewhon and Amnesty International is unaware of its existence.

Prisoners are forced to wear magnetic metal boots, walk into oblivion and presumably regret their life choices. As for the guards, they are not much better than the inmates.

Things go from bad to worse when Troy impersonates Archer and visits him at the hellish prison, letting him know that all evidence of the procedure has literally been torched.

One elaborate and deadly escape later, we and Archer are out of there and sighing a sigh of relief as the ultimate game of cat and mouse begins, leaving us without a doubt that we are watching one of the finest action films ever made.