Any good Asylum movies?

[Toddums]

I have always been fascinated with Asylums (hell I was even in one for awhile). I have only seen what horror movie about an asylum but is was aweful. I don't remember the name but it was about this killer loose in an empty aslyum or something.

I was hoping for something that had drama and good characters (like one who flew over the cuckoos nest), or one that just creepy and scary.

Any movies like that out there?

[Roderick Usher]

Session 9 - it's great, but not "Classic" as defined by the forum

The Snake Pit is a classic drama, but a scary one set in a mental institution

[Toddums]

Thank you sir. Are these avaliable via dvd at my local bestbuy? Lol.

[Roderick Usher]

Originally Posted by Toddums

Thank you sir. Are these avaliable via dvd at my local bestbuy? Lol.

yup Session 9 is about an asbestos clean-up crew charged with the job of cleaning out a decrepit asylum... and things go downhill. I recommend it highly, but it's a slow, moody piece, not exactly full of slam-bang action or gore.

[_____V_____]

Amicus made a great movie IMO. Definitely worth a peek.

[Robert_Dunbar]

I always think one should start with the classics first. Check out Karloff in Val Lewton's BEDLAM.




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[nocturne]

Session 9
Madhouse
I enjoyed Asylum of the Damned, it's a super low budget b-movie though

[alkytrio666]

Originally Posted by Robert_Dunbar

I always think one should start with the classics first. Check out Karloff in Val Lewton's BEDLAM.




http://www.deliriumbooks.com/insider/?p=344

Hell yeah. Here's where it's at.

[paws the great]

Slaughter Hotel

Madhouse (2004)

Dark Asylum

[neverending]

I'm surprised some of these films have not been named:

Shock Corridor (1963)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057495/
This is a MASTERPIECE directed by Sam Fuller, about a reporter who gets himself committed so he can write a Pulitzer prize article. There are some really creepy scenes in this movie.

Cabinet des Dr. Caligari., Das (1920)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0010323/
One of the great silent horror movies. An insane asylum director performs hipnotic experiments on a subject, making him committ murders.

Marat/Sade (1967)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060668/
The full title of this film is "The Persecution & Assasination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis DeSade." This movie is not for everyone. It's the filmed version of a play in VERSE- but it does all take place in an insane asylum and is about a group of inmates puttingf on a play about the assination of Jean Paul Marat, one of the leaders of the French Revolution. This is an AMAZING movie- one of my all time top 5. Has Patrick McGee, Ian Richardson & Glenda Jackson.

These two films I have not seen, but from their description on IMDB they sound promising:

Asylum of Satan (1975)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068231/

Shock Treatment (1964)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058585/