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The actual building used for filming was the Ohio State Reformatory in Mansfield, Ohio. [1] Shawshank State Prison also appears in several episodes of the Hulu original series Castle Rock. For the series, the showrunners used the West Virginia Penitentiary as the prison. “Part of the reason we chose the prison that we chose to shoot at was we ...
The Shawshank Redemption is a 1994 American prison drama film written and directed by Frank Darabont, based on the 1982 Stephen King novella Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption. The film tells the story of banker Andy Dufresne ( Tim Robbins ), who is sentenced to life in Shawshank State Penitentiary for the murders of his wife and her lover ...
Bill Skarsgård as "The Kid" / "The Angel" (guest star for season 2), an enigmatic inmate at Shawshank State Penitentiary secretly held prisoner by Warden Dale Lacy for 27 years. He specifically asks for Henry after being released from an empty septic tank located beneath an abandoned cell block in the prison.
Shawshank itself is crucial to the film. The prison is set in Maine, though they filmed at the Ohio State Reformatory in Mansfield. The prison began construction in 1886 and was in use until 1990.
The Ohio State Reformatory, made famous worldwide by the 1994 film "The Shawshank Redemption," sits under a springtime sun on May 16, 2024. Federal court orders closed the reformatory in 1990.
Thirty years after The Shawshank Redemption opened in U.S. theaters on Sept. 23, 1994, director Frank Darabont revealed the lengths Tim Robbins went to in portraying the film’s hero.. In a ...
The Ohio State Reformatory (OSR), also known as the Mansfield Reformatory, is a historic prison located in Mansfield, Ohio in the United States. It was built between 1886 and 1910 and remained in operation until 1990, when a United States Federal Court ruling (the 'Boyd Consent Decree') ordered the facility to be closed.
Prison scenes in the 2013 film Out of the Furnace were filmed on site at the penitentiary. [19] The prison was the site for MTV's paranormal reality television series Fear in Season 1 Episode 1. [20] The Hulu original series, Castle Rock, based on Stephen King's work, was filmed here. In the series, the penitentiary stands in as Shawshank State ...