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An independent horror movie set in a sanitarium where the head doctor believes the cure for insanity is to allow his patients to act as out as much as they want. When a new nurse (Rosie Holotik) starts at the hospital, the rest of the staff is reluctant to work with her. Her chilly welcome may have to do with a secret the sanitarium is hiding in the basement.
A British psychological horror thriller about a young man (Željko Ivane) who wakes on the side of the road and then tries to drown himself in a nearby lake. The man is taken to a mental hospital where he is named John Doe #83 and diagnosed with retrograde amnesia. Psychiatrist Dr. Gail Farmer (Kathryn Harrold) cares for him and comes to believe that John Doe is sending her telepathic messages.
This comedy slasher is gonzo, terribly cheesy and amusing if you love bad films. The movie follows a group of teenagers who trespass into an abandoned insane asylum. Inside they find a lesbian punk band with communist insignia on their instruments and a creepy coroner on the property. There is no dissociative identity disorder in this movie or any mental illness really, just nonsense.
Much of this beloved Nightmare sequel takes place at Westin Hills Psychiatric Hospital where Nancy Thompson (Heather Langenkamp) is a new intern therapist. Teenager Kristen Parker (Patricia Arquette) begins having nightmares about Freddy Krueger and is committed to Westin Hills. As Freddy attacks Kristen, Nancy and the other kids at the psychiatric hospital, they work together to defeat him.
After the events of Hellraiser (1987), Kristy Cotton (Ashley Laurence) is a patient in a psychiatric hospital. While she tells the truth about what happened to her family, Kristy is judged as insane by the doctors (and everyone else) at the hospital. However, one of her doctors, Dr. Channard (Kenneth Cranham), resurrects Julia Cotton (Clare Higgins) and unleashes the Cenobites again.
A supernatural horror movie starring Sam Neill as John Trent, a patient in a psychiatric hospital. Before being committed, Trent was an insurance investigator who was looking for a missing author whose final book drives readers insane. During the increasingly bizarre investigation, Trent comes to believe that the manuscript is indeed monstrous.
A supernatural psychological horror movie by master of horror John Carpenter. Amber Heard stars as Kristen, a beautiful but troubled young woman trapped in a mental institution where the other patients are being physically brutalized by unseen forces. She believes the culprit is the ghost of a formerly institutionalized woman named Alice.
Leonardo DiCaprio stars in this 2000s neo-noir psychological thriller directed by Martin Scorsese. Shutter Island is a trippy film about a man (DiCaprio) who goes to investigate the disappearance of a patient at the Ashecliffe Hospital for the criminally insane. Without giving away too much, it is a smart noir that engages with interesting philosophical questions about psychiatric care amidst stunning visuals.
A found footage supernatural horror movie showing the crew of a ghost hunting reality show who supposedly disappeared during their final investigation. The team travels to the abandoned Collingwood Psychiatric Hospital and locks themselves in for the night to do a paranormal investigation. Throughout the night, paranormal events inside the abandoned hospital become increasingly terrifying.
A creepy Steven Soderbergh psychological thriller following a woman named Sawyer Valentini (Claire Foy) who has been dealing with a stalker. Sawyer is tricked into committing herself to Creek Behavioral Center, a for-profit psychiatric hospital that routinely scams healthy patients for money. While most patients are eventually released when their insurance runs out, Sawyer is in greater danger when she realizes her stalker has gotten a job at the hospital under an assumed name.
A psychological supernatural horror movie following therapist Dr. Rose Cotter (Sosie Bacon), who works in a psychiatric ward. Rose meets with a grad student, Laura (Caitlin Stasey), who says she is being terrorized by smiling people before smiling and taking her own life in front of the doctor. The next day, Rose meets another smiling patient and realizes that the curse has been passed to her from Laura.
Cinematic asylums are never just mental hospitals. They are almost always something more. They are metaphors, symbolic stand-ins for things that worry us. Movie and TV show asylums are designed to teach us lessons about social problems or to probe the mysteries of life. A new Netflix offering continues this tradition.
But "1899" is not about mental illness or hospitals. Nor is it about psychiatry. It mainly takes place on an ocean liner, where strange things are happening to the passengers and crew. They do not know it, but they are all in a simulation. Vivid episodes of past trauma seem to catch them unawares, though they confidently believe that they are heading across the Atlantic to New York in the year 1899.
"1899" is an effective, mind-bending show. It culls generously from our shared celluloid history. It draws on everything from movies like "The Matrix" and "Titanic" to TV shows such as "Lost" and "The Twilight Zone."
Cinematic asylums have a long history. They have been featured in so many feature films (at least 300, by my count), that their hallways, shock treatments, doctors, and constraint devices have become standardized and familiar.
Films and TV shows like "1899" do not create their scenes from whole cloth. They tap into genres and conventions. This allows them to connect with audiences. They then play with these genres and conventions to surprise, delight, and terrify us. The first season of Disney's "The Mandalorian," for example, is essentially a Western. But it is also an exciting and original new spin on the genre, and audiences lapped it up.
One of the cornerstones of this genre is the legendary Shutter Island with its mind-bending plot twist, set in a seemingly ordinary asylum that holds sinister secrets. Equally notable is Session 9, with its depiction of an eerie, abandoned psychiatric hospital. Other worthy contenders include Stonehearst Asylum, which masks its darkness under the Victorian era charm, and The Ward, a John Carpenter classic locking us in with a group of disturbed patients. Gothika presents an intriguing mix of reality and supernatural happenings in a women's mental institution, while Grave Encounters uses a found footage style to show an overnight lockdown in a haunted psychiatric hospital.
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Widely regarded as the best entry in the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise, A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors continues the story of Nancy Thompson and introduces young Kristen Parker as they struggle to survive against the never-ending wrath of Freddy Kruger. Centering the film in a mental hospital was utterly brilliant as it gave every character in the film reason to doubt what our protagonists were saying. A man is coming to attack them in their dreams? Doesn't sound like something any rational person would say, so why believe them? This perfect back-and-forth helps turn this stereotypical slasher into a classic paranoid thriller that still manages to have all the bloody charm of its predecessors.
The sequel to John Carpenters' revolutionary horror blockbuster Halloween, Halloween II continues the journey of Laurie Strode and The Shape mere moments after the finale of its predecessor, with Laurie hiding from her haunted killer in a hospital. The decision to set Halloween II in a hospital, while at first seeming a bit odd, was an absolutely genius move by Carpenter. A logical and rational location, Laurie was battled and bruised so the hospital marked the ultimate battleground for the two legends of horror to duke it out. The film takes full advantage of its location, giving some of the franchise's most beloved and adored kills thanks to the tools of the trade.
When an asbestos cleaning crew picks up a job in an abandoned mental hospital, they soon find out that this haunted hospital has shocking and vile secrets that are coming back to life in the most terrifying and masochistic ways. Session 9 is a masterclass on how to properly make an insane asylum feel real and utterly terrifying in film thanks to a superb sense of realism. Filmed through a gritty, almost cheap lens, audiences nearly forget that they are watching a movie, as Session 9 begins to feel more like forbidden-found footage rather than a big-budget blockbuster. Utterly nerve-wracking from start to finish, Session 9 is undoubtedly one of the realist and scariest haunted asylum movies in history.
Desperate to find any semblance of the paranormal in the real world, a group of foolish reality television hosts locks themselves in a haunted psychiatric hospital, and soon find terrors they wouldn't have in their worst nightmares. Rapidly gaining cult status and being regarded as one of the most chilling and haunting films of the 2010s, Grave Encounters feels so eerie thanks to a profound sense of realism. Shot in an actual mental institute, the Riverview Hospital in British Colombia, the film feels almost too real for its own good, giving audiences an utterly horrifying experience.
Following in the footsteps of many beloved horror franchises before it, Hellbound: Hellraiser II drastically changes the location of the franchise to a mental hospital where a new patient claims terrible, vile, and masochist creatures killed her family. Of course, the audience knows she is telling the truth, but attempting to convince a hospital full of doctors who would do anything but believe you is a thrilling and wonderful way to keep the threat of Pinhead and the Cenobites alive. The insane asylum isn't just set dressing either, as it gives way to some of the most interesting and horrifying imagery in the series, with blood-written messages and manic patients adding to the dread of what is going to unfold.
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