Movies and Television
The facility gained fame when it served as Shawshank State Prison in the 1994 film The Shawshank Redemption starring Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman.
The facility has also been used in many other productions (even while it still held inmates), such as:
- Harry and Walter Go to New York (1975) - Harry and Walter spend some time behind bars at the penitentiary, when the prison was still in operation.
- Tango & Cash (1989) - The facility was used for various prison scenes.
- The Shawshank Redemption (1994) - The prison was used in the large panning scene, the warden's office, and an officers quarters was used to shoot Brooks apartment.
- Air Force One (1997) - The prison was used for scenes of a Russian prison for General Ivan Radek.
- Godsmack "Awake" music video 2000.
- Marilyn Manson promotional photography, 1996 - Frontman, Brian Hugh Warner, grew up in Canton, Ohio.
- Ohio State Reformatory has been the subject of numerous paranormal investigation shows, including the Fox Family Channel's Scariest Stories on Earth, and Scariest Places On Earth.
- The Travel Channel did a tourism documentary on the OSR.
- In 2005, The Atlantic Paranormal Society (TAPS) investigated the facility for the SciFi Channel's TV series Ghost Hunters.
- In 2004 Lil Wayne featured this prison in his video for the song "Go DJ".
- In April 2006 the horror/thriller motion picture Fallen Angels (2007) was filmed almost entirely at OSR. The film featured many genre favorites.
- WWE shot a promotional poster featuring Triple H for their 2008 Judgment Day event in the facility.
- In 2009 the facility was featured on "Ghost Adventures", where the crew received multiple equipment problems, such as charged batteries inexplicably draining.
- In 2010, the facility was used for an episode of Ghost Hunters Academy.
- It is the filming place for the music video of the song "Relentless Chaos" by Miss May I.
- The Purple Smoke Project (Hip hop group) filmed a video for the song "Calm Down" in 2011
- Attack Attack shot a portion of their video "Smokahontas" in in 2011
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