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- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) Trailer for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) The number one spot for best insane asylum movie has to go to the landmark adaptation of Ken Kesey's 1962 novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
- Shutter Island (2010) Trailer for Shutter Island (2010) Perhaps the most obvious movie for this list, Shutter Island is not Martin Scorsese's most critically acclaimed work, but it may well be his most popular.
- The Ninth Configuration (1980) Trailer for The Ninth Configuration (1980) A cultish indie flick that touches on pretty much every genre, The Ninth Configuration was the directorial debut of William Peter Blatty (who wrote The Exorcist in 1971 and adapted it to film in 1973).
- Girl, Interrupted (1999) Trailer for Girl, Interrupted (1999) Girl, Interrupted is a compelling examination into the world of mental illness. It takes place in a 1960s mental hospital where attitudes over mental illness were just beginning to change.
Oct 7, 2024 · A Nightmare On Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987) Dream Warriors is a fan favorite sequel in one of the best horror franchises to ever exist. Much of this beloved Nightmare sequel takes place at Westin Hills Psychiatric Hospital where Nancy Thompson (Heather Langenkamp) is a new intern therapist.
- Chrissy Stockton
4 days ago · Arguably the scariest film on this entire list, The Exorcist III is the blueprint for making an insane asylum movie the absolute scariest it can possibly be. With an eerie and haunting playground, the film relishes its ability to make audiences uncomfortable by showcasing some bizarre and haunting imagery.
The Dead Pit. 1989 1h 35m R. 5.3 (3K) Rate. The arrival of an amnesiac patient in a psychiatric hospital somehow frees a mad doctor, who was shot and entombed with his fiendish experiments in an abandoned wing of the asylum 20 years before. Director Brett Leonard Stars Jeremy Slate Cheryl Lawson Stephen Gregory Foster.
- Bedlam (1946) | Mark Robson
- Don Juan Demarco (1994) | Jeremy Leven
- Even Dwarfs Started Small (1970) | Werner Herzog
- House of Fools (2002) | Andrei Konchalovsky
- Girl, Interrupted (1999) | James Mangold & Jonathan Kahn
- Unsane (2018) | Steven Soderbergh
- Dogra Magra (1988) | Toshio Matsumoto
- Brainstorm (2001) | Laís Bodanzky
- Session 9 (2001) | Brad Anderson
- I’m A Cyborg, But That’S OK (2006) | Park Chan-Wook
One of 18thcentury England’s greatest shame was the insane asylum, commonly referred to by Londoners as ‘Bedlam.’ Mark Robson’s horror thriller tracks the experiences of a spirited young girl, Nell’s (Anna Lee) efforts to expose the cruelty & reform ‘bedlam’. But, the sadistic Sims (Boris Karloff), running the asylum, commits the girl into the inst...
In Jeremy Leven’s oddball fantasy, Johnny Depp plays a delusional young man who is convinced that he is the world’s greatest lover, Don Juan. His magnetic eyes and steamy words make some women believe that, including the nurses at the psychiatric institution, he has been committed to (“Have you ever loved a woman until milk leaked from her?”asks Do...
Werner Herzog’s controversial picture is largely set inside the confines of an institution that’s situated in a small island town with a barren landscape. It doesn’t mention what kind of institution its inmates are rebelling against. Some interpret it as a penal institution, and some consider it a mental asylum. But that’s just one of the metaphori...
An anti-war allegory employing the inmates of an abandoned asylum is, of course, not a fresh cinematic subject. Philippe de Broca’s famous quirky comedy King of Richards (1966) is set in a deserted small town where the neglected inmates of a psychiatric institution take over the town. The scenario gets playful when a lone Scottish soldier is sent t...
American author Susanna Kaysen’s memoir relates her brief stay (during the 1960s) in a psychiatric hospital after being diagnosed with borderline personality disorder. In James Mangold’s movie adaptation, Winona Rydergives the powerful angst-ridden portrayal of Susanna, while Angelina Jolie plays the charming sociopath Lisa.
Steven Soderbergh’s taut iPhone-shot thriller, embellished with a yellowish color palette, perfectly brings out the dread of the central character stuck in a psychiatric institution. Claire Foy plays Sawyer Valentini, who moves and gets a new job to escape her stalker. But an unexpected turn of events leads Sawyer to be involuntarily committed to a...
Based on Yumeno Kyusaku’s famous novel, the movie version, directed by Toshio Matsumoto, deals with the experiences of a young insane man, Kure Ichiro, confined to an Eastern philosophy talking psychiatric doctors of a mental asylum. Like the young protagonist who killed his fiance on the day of marriage, we are also haunted by many unanswered ques...
Brazilian film-maker Lais Bodanzky’s painful docu-drama, similar to “Girl, Interrupted”, chronicles author Mr. Carrano’s stay in a hellish mental asylum for a detox program. Middle-class teenager Neto (Rodrigo Santaro—played as Xerxes in “300”) is a normal boy, but feels alienated from his family and hangs out with friends for music & drugs. The fa...
Brad Anderson’s horror/mystery is like his future work “The Machinist,” which is a peek into the dark side of human psychology. But, the majestic & rotting Danvers State Hospital plays a vital role in its protagonist’s sinistral downfall. It is almost inconceivable to think of the film’s effectiveness without the terrifying atmosphere of the asylum...
Acclaimed Korean filmmaker Park Chan-wook’s offbeat romantic drama, set in a mental asylum, tells the story of Young-goon, who, driven crazy by her assembly line work, thinks of herself as a cyborg and tries to charge herself by plugging into the mains. In the mental hospital, she stubbornly refuses food in favor of a battery charge. In comes anoth...
Shutter Island is a 2009 American neo-noir psychological horror film [4] directed by Martin Scorsese.It is adapted by Laeta Kalogridis from the 2003 novel of the same name by Dennis Lehane, about a Deputy U.S. Marshal who comes to Shutter Island to investigate a psychiatric facility, after one of the patients goes missing.
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Feb 3, 2023 · 9 Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum (2018) This creative found-footage horror movie from South Korea is named after the real-life psychiatric hospital of the same name. An enormous commercial success, this ...
