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A snobbish lawyer without many scruples wins cases (also) by defending questionable characters, using (also) not quite orthodox means to ensure that witnesses do not testify…
But this is only “subtly” hinted at in the beginning.
The snob-lawyer goes to visit his latest client who is about to be released from prison thanks to him, where the poor guy has meanwhile come to terms with a "satanic" revelation, his full guilt.
In the midst of the meeting between the snob-lawyer and the soon-to-be exonerated, the latter casually tells him, but I'm guilty, I killed them!! (wife and daughter).
The snob-lawyer is a bit bewildered and doesn't have time to express his snob-lawyer astonishment when the almost-ex prisoner grabs his hand and with the pen the lawyer is holding, stabs himself in the throat with the lawyer’s own hand, murmuring, “…and you will be next.”
From here, we suddenly find the snob-lawyer imprisoned, obviously, in the same prison and, equally obviously, in the very same cell as his former client whom he (unintentionally) killed.
The cell in question (no way!) is inhabited by presences that are not quite pleasant, which first frighten him, then drive him to the brink of madness, after a while make him understand why they find him an interesting subject (the witness from the initial trial was not “gently” invited to go to the beach as he naively imagined, but was even murdered along with his entire family by the “deterrent” hired by the snob-lawyer), and finally what they want from him.
Corollary to this is the inevitable bad guard who reveals himself to be obviously as crazy as a drunken snake at a certain point, the young and pretty female prison inspector who inevitably falls for the ex-lawyer but still suave, the prison director who, ambiguously, shifts from politically correct to snotty to then become a dangerous jerk but in the finale (surprise?!) will unexpectedly become the bulwark of justice (even divine? Who knows…)
There's practically no gore, the tension is overall quite consistent without gratuitously “scary” plot twists, the actors are believable, the story, considering the genre, is certainly not very original but at least tries to follow a narrative thread that has its own “sense” at the limit, why not, even believable (!)
If you like the genre, give it a look.
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