Driftwood (2006)

Driftwood (2006)
Director: Tim Sullivan
Writers: Chris Kobin, Tim Sullivan
After the death of his older brother, David Forrester becomes obsessed with death to the point that his parents send him to Driftwood, a prison-like readjustment camp for juveniles. Run by the brutal Captain Doug Kennedy (played by wrestler Diamond Dallas Page) and his sadistic underling, the camp is a living hell that turns stranger when David is visited by Jonathan, the ghost of a former inmate...
'While taking time away, after doing the 2001 Maniacs remake and before making its sequel 2001 Maniacs: Beverly Hellbillys director Tim Sullivan delivered up this quickie supernatural prison movie. It's about Driftwood a youth offenders prison with a dark past of abuse and murder against its young inmates. New boy David whom himself as a morbid fascination with death is first to notice supernatural goings on when he stumbles on the ghost of a prisoner Jonathan, who got under the feet of warden captain Kennedy so much he was murdered. The films of pretty much a television standard so much so that if it was cut down by 25 or so minutes wouldn't of looked out of place on Masters Of Horror. The entire feature is played pretty much for crude laughs never really hitting a scary feel until the final 5 or so minutes. Wrestler Diamond Dallas Page does a good enough job as the sleazy prison chief whom as a strange insestious relationship with his pretty daughter Myra. The trouble is none of the other cast are given much to do and it wasn't long before I started to pay more attention to the clock and how much time I was wasting than with the film.'

(4 out of 10)