Asylum (1972)
Country: GB
Technical: col 88m
Director: Roy Ward Baker
Cast: Patrick Magee, Robert Powell, Peter Cushing, Britt Ekland, Herbert Lom, Barbara Parkins
Synopsis:
A young psychiatrist seeking employment at a mental institution must first interview four patients, and their stories constitute the episodes of this portmanteau film.
Review:
More Amicus tales of horror and the uncanny, and in some ways the best of the bunch (cf. Tales from the Crypt and From Beyond the Grave). The framing material is of quite high quality, with some judiciously applied chunks of Mussorgsky's Pictures for the drawings on the staircase, and Lom's homunculi delightful representatives of the archetypal inmate. The individual stories are more standard fodder; only the tailor's magic suit has a certain fairytale aura about it that seduces.
Country: GB
Technical: col 88m
Director: Roy Ward Baker
Cast: Patrick Magee, Robert Powell, Peter Cushing, Britt Ekland, Herbert Lom, Barbara Parkins
Synopsis:
A young psychiatrist seeking employment at a mental institution must first interview four patients, and their stories constitute the episodes of this portmanteau film.
Review:
More Amicus tales of horror and the uncanny, and in some ways the best of the bunch (cf. Tales from the Crypt and From Beyond the Grave). The framing material is of quite high quality, with some judiciously applied chunks of Mussorgsky's Pictures for the drawings on the staircase, and Lom's homunculi delightful representatives of the archetypal inmate. The individual stories are more standard fodder; only the tailor's magic suit has a certain fairytale aura about it that seduces.
Country: GB
Technical: col 88m
Director: Roy Ward Baker
Cast: Patrick Magee, Robert Powell, Peter Cushing, Britt Ekland, Herbert Lom, Barbara Parkins
Synopsis:
A young psychiatrist seeking employment at a mental institution must first interview four patients, and their stories constitute the episodes of this portmanteau film.
Review:
More Amicus tales of horror and the uncanny, and in some ways the best of the bunch (cf. Tales from the Crypt and From Beyond the Grave). The framing material is of quite high quality, with some judiciously applied chunks of Mussorgsky's Pictures for the drawings on the staircase, and Lom's homunculi delightful representatives of the archetypal inmate. The individual stories are more standard fodder; only the tailor's magic suit has a certain fairytale aura about it that seduces.