Mahler (1975), Shock Corridor (1963), Love Crazy (1941), Quills (2000), The Enforcer (1951), Child's Play (1988), Mystery Men (1999), Frankenstein and the Monster From Hell (1974) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Insane Asylum movies.
Storyline: Composer Gustav Mahler (Robert Powell) flashes back on his tortured life during his final train trip to Vienna.
Plot Keywords: composer, wife, schizophrenic, father, student, brooding, creative ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Johnny Barrett, an ambitious journalist, is determined to win a Pulitzer Prize by solving a murder committed in a lunatic asylum and witnessed only by three inmates, from whom the police have been unable to extract the information. With the connivance of a psychiatrist, and the reluctant help of his girlfriend, he succeeds in having himself declared insane and sent to the asylum. There he slowly tracks down and interviews the witnesses - but things are stranger than they seem ...—David Levene <D.S.Levene@durham.ac.uk>
Plot Keywords: reporter, inmate, psychiatrist, girlfriend, witness, thrilling, tense ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Steve and Susan Ireland are about to celebrate their 4th wedding anniversary by re-enacting their first date. When Susan's meddling mother interrupts and injures herself. Steve is left to take care of her and when he meets an old flame in the elevator--Susan's mother takes the opportunity to break-up their marriage. She convinces Susan that Steve is cheating on her-Susan files for divorce. Steve has one solution to save his marriage...Pretend he is insane.—Kelly
Plot Keywords: architect, wife, mother-in-law, artist, lawyer, wild, playful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The infamous writer, the Marquis de Sade of eighteenth century France, is imprisoned at Charenton Insane Asylum for unmentionable activities. He manages to befriend the young Abbé de Coulmier, who runs the asylum, along with a beautiful laundress named Madeline. Things go terribly wrong when the Abbe finds out that the Marquis' books are being secretly published. Emperor Napoleon contemplates sending Dr. Royer-Collard to oversee the asylum, a man famed for his torturous punishments. It could mean the end of Charenton and possibly the Marquis.
Plot Keywords: love interest, doctor, worker, government official, priest, marquis de sade, dark ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: After years of pursuit, Assistant D.A. Martin Ferguson has a good case against Murder, Inc. boss Albert Mendoza. Mendoza is in jail and his lieutenant Joseph Rico is going to testify. But Rico falls to his death and Ferguson must work through the night going over everything to build the case anew.—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
Plot Keywords: district attorney, crime boss, henchman, witness, detective, hit man, brooding ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: When Charles Lee Ray needs to get a quick escape from cop Mike Norris, he takes his soul and buries it into playful, seemingly good guy doll Chucky. Little does he know a little boy by the name of Andy Barclay will be the new owner of him soon-to-come. Charles confides in Andy while he commits numerous murders and once the adults accept Andy's story as truth, it's too late.
Plot Keywords: doll, police detective, young boy, mother, killer, babysitter, dark ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In order to generate more endorsement revenue, Champion City's resident superhero Captain Amazing arranges for the release of supervillain Casanova Frankenstein, only to be captured by him. The city's fate rests in the hands of seven loser superhero wannabes: the spoon-flinging Blue Rajah, the shovel-wielding Shoveler, the possessed bowling ball-hurling Bowler, the flatulent Spleen, the only-when-nobody's-looking Invisible Boy, the mysterious Sphinx, and the perpetually-angry Mr. Furious.
Plot Keywords: superhero, teammate, vigilante, villain, guardian, amusing, quirky ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The baron (Peter Cushing) and his asylum sidekick (Shane Briant) put the brain of a genius in the body of a brute.
Plot Keywords: doctor, baron, assistant, gory, hell, insane asylum, experiments ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Detective Matt Gibson chases the psychotic Detective Mark Hoffman while Jigsaw's widow Jill Tuck tries to kill him as assigned by her husband. However he escapes and Jill meets Gibson and offers to sign an affidavit listing the murders committed by Hoffman. In return, she requests protection. Meanwhile, the prominent Jigsaw survivor and leader of a support group Bobby Dagen is abducted with his wife and friends and forced to play a mortal game to save not only his wife, but three of his colleagues as well.
Plot Keywords: author, widower, gunslinger, psychologist, chilling, creepy, frightening ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Work, family, relationships, deadlines, terrorism, information overload... When modern life is getting crazier and crazier, day by day, who wouldn't think about getting out? Leaving it all behind? Wouldn't that be the only sane response to this mad world? "Asylum Seekers" is about escapism, about feeling the pressure and deciding on a radical solution. Our six characters can't take their various stresses any more and are heading for the door marked EXIT. It leads to a deluxe, exclusive, luxuriously-appointed mental asylum, an adult funfair where they can let it all go and be waited on hand and foot for the rest of their carefree lives. Or so it seems... The first twist is that there are limited places. Only one free bed remains. The competition is on. And there are many other surprises lying in wait for the unwary, would-be-insane patient... The ride out of the world they know has only just begun!—Rania Ajami
Plot Keywords: patient, family, radical, dark, insane asylum, sanatorium, treatment ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Set in a defunct insane asylum known as 'Eloise,' four friends break into the abandoned institution in hopes of finding a death certificate, which will grant one of them the rights to a sizable inheritance. While inside the asylum, the group not only finds that Eloise houses a horrifying history but also the truth about their own tragic pasts.
Plot Keywords: friend, young man, young woman, inmate, family member, warden, creepy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Two disorientated women (Brigitte Lahaie, Dominique Journet) escape from a mysterious asylum where workers resort to torture and sexual abuse.
Plot Keywords: stranger, rapist, adult, hospital worker, victim, suspenseful, eerie ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Aiden travels to a Haitian insane asylum to find his brother and discovers all the inmates and staff are possessed by a bloodthirsty voodoo spirit.
Plot Keywords: brother, administrator, haitian, thrilling, hospital, insane asylum, voodoo ...
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