The Asylum
by Roy Ward Baker
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Actor: Barry Morse, Britt Ekland, Herbert Lom, Patrick Magee, Peter CushingDirector: Roy Ward Baker
Brand: MPI
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: Portuguese (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 89 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-07-25
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Dark Sky Films
Movie Reviews of The Asylum
Movie Review: Don't Look in the Deep Freeze!
Summary: 5 Stars
FLASHBACK- High School and we are asked by teacher if we'd like to attend a movie in the auditorium. I think we had to cough up $2 to go see this movie- which was never explained what we were going to see- not even the title. Imagine our...MY surprise when the credits roll and the title "Asylum" comes up. Confusion spreads across our face and shortly after that....terror! Oh my word- when the woman's body is chopped up and neatly wrapped in butcher's brown paper and then stacked in the deep freezer...WTF?! And then the pieces come alive!! Come on! What does this have to do with reading, writing, and arithmatic?!! This movie is a cut above the rest. Good stuff!
Summary of The Asylum
When Dr. Martin (Robert Powell) arrives at the Dunsmoor Asylum for the incurably insane, he expects to be interviewed by asylum director Dr. Starr. Instead he is met by Dr. Rutherford (Patrick Magee), who explains that Dr. Starr had suffered a mental breakdown and now is one of the patients. Dr. Rutherford decides that if Martin can deduce which one is really Dr. Starr, then he will be given the position. Is it Bonnie (Barbara Parkins), whose affair with a married man turns murderous? Is it Bruno (Barry Morse), a hardluck tailor visited by a mysterious stranger (Peter Cushing) with a blueprint and very special fabric for an unusual suit? Is it Barbara (Charlotte Rampling), accused of murdering her brother and her nurse but insisting that her friend Lucy (Britt Ekland) was responsible; Or is it Dr. Byron (Herbert Lom) who claims the ability to transfer collecting.One of the patients in an institution for the incurably insane was once its director, and a young psychiatrist (Robert Powell) has to figure out which one as they all tell him their stories. What better setting for a horror anthology? It's an inspired framing device, making this one of the better examples of the genre, even if screenwriter Robert Bloch at times resorts to gimmicks rather than invention. The first two stories are less than brilliant (the first is highlighted by dismembered body parts neatly wrapped in butcher paper wriggling back to life for revenge), but Charlotte Rampling and Britt Eklund are marvelous in the third tale, about a mentally unbalanced young woman and her dangerous best friend. Herbert Lom is also excellent in the final story as a scientist who carves an army of dolls he claims he can bring to life by sheer will power.
Director Roy Ward Baker (Quatermas and the Pit) builds momentum with each story until the dark and deliciously bloody climax. This Amicus Studios production looks visually dull compared to Hammer's gothic gloss, but it features a great British cast (including Patrick Magee and Hammer stalwart Peter Cushing), and ultimately Baker makes that gloomy look work for his increasingly creepy production. Amicus produced a series of horror anthologies, including the original 1972 Tales from the Crypt and The Torture Garden (also scripted by Bloch). --Sean Axmaker
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