Shutter Island (2010), Wide Awake (2006), Diary of a Lost Girl (1929), King of Hearts (1966), Vincent -- The Life and Death of Vincent van Gogh (1987), Possessed (1947), Van Gogh (1991), Tere Naam (2003) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Mental Asylum movies.
Storyline: Jerry (Ryan Reynolds) is that chipper guy clocking the nine-to-five at a bathtub factory, with the offbeat charm of anyone who could use a few friends. With the help of his court-appointed psychiatrist, he pursues his office crush (Gemma Arterton). However, the relationship takes a sudden, murderous turn after she stands him up for a date. Guided by his evil talking cat and benevolent talking dog, Jerry must decide whether to keep striving for normalcy, or indulge in a much more sinister path.
Plot Keywords: black comedy, psychological thriller, crime, horror, mental illness, serial killer, surreal ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: An asbestos abatement crew wins the bid for an abandoned insane asylum. What should be a straightforward, if rather rushed, job, is complicated by the personal histories of the crew. In particular, Hank is dating Phil's old girlfriend, and Gordon's new baby seems to be unnerving him more than should be expected. Things get more complicated as would-be lawyer Mike plays the tapes from a former patient with multiple personalities, including the mysterious Simon who does not appear until Session 9, and as Hank disappears after finding some old coins.
Plot Keywords: horror, psychological thriller, supernatural, mental asylum, mystery, dark, atmospheric horror ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A law student takes a job as the night-watchman in a morgue, thinking that he will have much time to study, with his biggest problem being his paranoia in this scary setting. Meanwhile, a serial killer is on the loose and the student ends up getting mixed up with one of the murders, becoming a suspect.
Plot Keywords: horror, thriller, mystery, supernatural, vampire, serial killer, psychological horror ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Just when the streets seemed safe, a serial killer with a fetish for scalps is back and on the hunt. Frank is the withdrawn owner of a mannequin store, but his life changes when young artist Anna appears asking for his help with her new exhibition. As their friendship develops and Frank's obsession escalates, it becomes clear that she has unleashed a long-repressed compulsion to stalk and kill.
Plot Keywords: psychological thriller, horror, remake, serial killer, mental asylum, violence, gore ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The residents of Haddonfield don't know it yet... but death is coming to their small sleepy town. Sixteen years ago, a ten year old boy called Michael Myers brutally kills his step father, his elder sister and her boyfriend. Sixteen years later, he escapes from the mental institution and makes his way back to his hometown intent on a murderous rampage pursued by Dr Sam Loomis who is Michael's doctor and the only one who knows Michael's true evil. Elsewhere a shy teenager by the name of Laurie Strode is babysitting on the night Michael comes home... is it pure coincidence that she and her friends are being stalked by him?
Plot Keywords: horror, thriller, slasher, halloween, masked killer, psychopath, serial killer ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: When the annual fair comes to town, murder, madness and mayhem creep in its shadows. Dr. Caligari, a mysterious hypnotist, appears to control every move of his bizarre, clairvoyant sleepwalker, but does he?
Plot Keywords: horror, mystery, psychological thriller, german film, classic remake, black and white, expressionism ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In London's seedy Soho district in 1963, Larry Winters (Iain Glen) murders a bartender with shocking violence. Sentenced to life behind bars, Winters has towering fits of rage that continue until prison doctors assign him to an experimental unit that gives him a route to self-expression. Flashbacks to his deprived Glasgow childhood with a delinquent older brother (Alexander Morton), his harrowing military experience and his history of drug abuse show how this troubled man became a murderer.—Dominic Murphy
Plot Keywords: horror, thriller, mystery, crime, psychological, murder, insanity ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: When an eccentric millionaire offer a group of opposites $1,000,000 to spend the night in a so called "Haunted House" with a murderous past, they figure it is a quick way to get quick money and leave. All of them are sure it is some made up story just to mess with their heads a little and test their courage. But, once they stay in the house they start to think about the mistake they made in coming there when mysterious things start to happen.
Plot Keywords: horror, thriller, mystery, supernatural, haunted house, revenge, mental asylum ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Mark and Jessie Bannister have a problem. Actually, they have SEVERAL problems. Namely his cousins, her sister and nephew, and the next-door neighbors. Plus problems at work, a temperamental toilet, and a cat that keeps returning from the dead.—Brad H. Yasuda <b_yasuda@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: horror, thriller, mystery, psychological thriller, serial killer, mental asylum, crime ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Two decades ago, Edmund (Rupert Davies) and Dorothy Yates (Sheila Keith) were placed in an insane asylum after it was proven they were cannibals who'd killed and eaten six people. Now they've been set free, and their put-upon daughter, Jackie (Deborah Fairfax), is beginning to suspect that they may not have been entirely reformed. As various young people start to disappear from the area around her parents' cabin, she and her boyfriend (Paul Greenwood) begin looking for evidence.
Plot Keywords: horror, exploitation, cannibalism, insanity, psychological thriller, violence, gore ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: After accused of murdering her family, Nica is taken to an asylum and thinks that she's the cause of the deaths of her family. However, when grisly deaths start to occur, she then realizes that Chucky, her illusion might not be make believe. She also finds out that the doll is slowly starting to possess anyone or anything to join a huge cult to kill off Chucky's victims, but things don't go to well in the asylum, including for Chucky's long lost friend, Andy, who tries to stop the cult from getting bigger while also trying to get past Chucky's wife, "Tiffany."
Plot Keywords: horror, thriller, cult film, supernatural, killer doll, gory, mystery ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A young woman with a long-term phobia of the boogeyman voluntarily checks herself into a mental health facility with the hope of conquering her overwhelming fear. However, much to her horror, she discovers that some things are terrifying on purpose, and confronting her demons was not the best course of action.—anonymous
Plot Keywords: horror, thriller, supernatural, monster, sequel, dark, psychological fear ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: As Susan Hamilton sleeps, she dreams that she is another person in an alternative reality. As her greatest fears come to life, she is pursued by the notorious serial killer known as the Night Stalker.
Plot Keywords: thriller, horror, psychological thriller, mystery, crime, dark, twisted ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The film centers on Dr. Marcus, a renowned psychiatrist who has selected 6 severe mentally ill and dangerous patients from the Spring Valley Mental Hospital to interview as part of research for his new book. As Dr. Marcus interviews each patient, one by one the horrors theyve committed begin to unfold. However, Dr. Marcus soon learns that there is one patient who ties them all together
Plot Keywords: horror, thriller, anthology, psychological horror, dark, mystery, mental illness ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A group of friends pays a late-night visit to the city morgue to surprise Amy (Harris) on her birthday. But the surprise is on them when the one-eyed corpse of brutal psychopath Jacob Goodnight (Jacobs) unexpectedly rises from a cold sub-basement slab. Their wild party quickly turns into a terrifying slay-fest as the sadistic mass-murderer resumes his savage rampage complete with hooks, surgical knives and power saws.—Lionsgate
Plot Keywords: horror, thriller, slaughter, serial killer, mental asylum, gore, violence ...
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