That Doesn't Happen Every Day
Stories from everyday people about things that don't happen everyday.
That Doesn't Happen Every Day
That Time They Made A Horror Movie In The Old Penitentiary
•
Larry Moore, Doug Hecox, Whitney Gore, Damon Haynes
•
Season 3
•
Episode 12
In 1987, a town known more for refinery workers and antelope herds saw a Hollywood production company arrive to make a horror movie in it old penitentiary. After finding out that the 300 real inmates the filmmakers were planning on using were not going to be available, railroad workers, accountants, and roughnecks showed up to be in Renny Harlin's film Prison about the ghost of a wrongfully executed prisoner seeking revenge.
To learn how you can go on a tour of Wyoming's Frontier Prison click here.
Photo Courtsey of John Bramley