Characters & Themes
The Chair (1988) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1988 · 100 mins · English
- Directed by
- Waldemar Korzeniowsky
- Starring
- Willie C. Carpenter, Richard Edson, Trini Alvarado, Mike Starr, John Eric Bentley, Daryl Edwards
A psychologist, a psychiatrist, and a prison warden collaborate to reopen a decades‑old, sealed penitentiary. Unaware that the spirit of an inmate who was electrocuted while confined still roams its corridors, they soon encounter terrifying, inexplicable events that turn their mission into a nightmarish confrontation with the supernatural.
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