<![CDATA[Theme-Park Prisons Of Tomorrow - io9 Comments]]> <![CDATA[Theme-Park Prisons Of Tomorrow - io9 Comments]]> <![CDATA[Theme-Park Prisons Of Tomorrow]]> Pohl and Williamson had explodey heads first, with The Reefs of Space, no? Are there any earlier instances of remote-triggered explosive neck collars that can only be removed by surgery?

perlmonger

]]> <![CDATA[Theme-Park Prisons Of Tomorrow]]> @missyprimrose36: I hate being the one to say this, but Battle Royale the Novel version was much better. You weren't lost in the story like the movie. The movie left you to figure out a lot of stuff on your own that was crucial to the story.

Even worse, if you got a crappy subtitle then it makes it more confusing.

RagingTowers

]]> <![CDATA[Theme-Park Prisons Of Tomorrow]]> This was also a Sliders story, except it was the entire city of San Francisco.

Chiper

]]> <![CDATA[Theme-Park Prisons Of Tomorrow]]> It was also a device used with such glee in Battle Royale. [from IMDB: In the beginning of the Twentieth-First Century, the economy of Japan is near a total collapse, with high rates of unemployment and students boycotting their classes. The government approves the Battle Royale Act, where one class is randomly selected and the students are sent to an island wearing necklaces with few supplies and one weapon. After three days, they have to kill each other and the survival wins his or her own life as a prize. The forty-two students of a ninth grade class are selected to participate in the survival game and abducted in their bus. Under the command of their former teacher Kitano, they have to eliminate each other following the rules of the sadistic game where only one wins.]

missyprimrose36

]]> <![CDATA[Theme-Park Prisons Of Tomorrow]]> speaking of Rutger Hauer...when is "A Breed Apart" going to hit DVD?...

goldfarb

]]> <![CDATA[Theme-Park Prisons Of Tomorrow]]> I always liked that movie back when it was called The Running Man starring Schwarzenegger

Gann

]]> <![CDATA[Theme-Park Prisons Of Tomorrow]]> If by "unique solution", you mean ripped off whole cloth from The Running Man. They kept their prisoners from running off with a system called Sonic Deadlock that featured explodey-head collars, too.

You'd think the reviewer would have heard about this obscure little indy flick from the late eighties.

gybryant

]]> <![CDATA[Theme-Park Prisons Of Tomorrow]]> What? No exploding heads?

Annalee Newitz

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