The Jailhouse (2009)

The Jailhouse: Directed by Billy Lewis. With Ken Aguilar, Siri Baruc, Darren Dalton, Brody Docar. Small town, the American dream. A blue-collar family living the idyllic rural lifestyle. Nothing is out of place save for the lacking white picket fence – and the old JAIL that occupies the 2nd floor of their century-old home. Seth Delray knew the possibilities before he moved his wife and two kids into the old jailhouse, but the Sheriff assured him that it would take an act of God to put that place back into service. Times were tight, and it was just too good of a deal to refuse. That is, until the county jail caught fire. The Sheriff’s hands were tied and he had to put displaced inmates anywhere he could find iron bars with a locking door. The Delray house was his only option. For Seth the worst wasn’t the criminals locked like animals in the soiled cages above his living room. It was the mortal fear in his children’s eyes, it was the piercing cold looks from his wife. It was that deep, dark creeping recognition that something had happened there, something terrible, something that would grip his soul with hundred year old hands squeezing hate from unknown depths. No longer did the birds sing upon the morning lit branches beyond the barred windows of the old jailhouse. No one could know the confinement of such a place and the horror it brings… the bleak hopelessness of one without freedom… …the inescapable iron bars of guilt and regret into which revenge imprisons a man’s mind.

“While his new house is repaired after a storm, a cop is forced to live below a haunted jail with inmates of the overcrowded nearby prison but slowly becomes possessed by the former guards and begins to torment and brutalize the inmates, forcing them to rise up against him.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eNot really as great as the plot sounds since the possession is really only hinted at and then figured out through the actions taken, despite the fact that itu0026#39;s never directly stated but rather implied, meaning that this one has just a long amount of time with nothing all that interesting going on. The attacks are brutal and bloody, but because we spend a lot of time with the inmates rather than the cop, lowering the film even more so and making it harder to get into. That, as well as a last-act twist that just makes the entire film a pointless endeavor and is utterly infuriating all the more-so lower it even more and makes it almost worthless.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eRated R: Graphic Violence and Graphic Language”