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25. Apr. 2024 · Dive into the eerie world of healthcare horror with this carefully compiled list of the best horror movies about hospitals and asylums. These cinematic delves into the dark and often menacing depiction of such settings have long intrigued viewers with their potential for bone-chilling frights, psychological twists, and gruesome imagery.
1989 1h 35m R. 5.3 (2.9K) 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. Seen. 3. Grave Encounters.
18. Sept. 2023 · The Snake Pit (1948) This is one of the first films to explore mental health care on the silver screen, it was partially shot at the real Camarillo State Mental Hospital in California. Olivia DeHavilland stars as a schizophrenic girl whose condition takes a turn for the worse once she is institutionalized.
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7. Mai 2023 · And apart from the horror potential, insane asylums can also spawn colorful characters whom we'd never meet in normal, everyday settings. From cult classic films to coming-of-age movies, here are the best insane asylum movies set in mental hospitals that make the best use of their settings and characters. 11. Unsane (2018)
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- 10 The Ward
- 9 Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum
- 8 Session 9
- 7 Unsane
- 6 A Cure For Wellness
- 5 Asylum
- 4 A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
- 3 Stonehearst Asylum
- 2 The Ninth Configuration
- 1 Shock Corridor
"Master of Horror" John Carpenter (Halloween, The Thing) returns to the genre for his most recent film to date. Set in Oregon in 1966, The Wardstars Amber Heard as Kristen, who, after setting fire to an abandoned farmhouse, is institutionalized, only to find herself being haunted by the ghost of a former psychiatric patient. Marrying both the horro...
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 film became the third most-watched horror movie in South Korea, making almost 10 times its budget at the box office in the US alone. Fans of The Blair Witch Project will likely love this ...
Westworld and Ozark's Peter Mullan stars as a man tasked with asbestos abatement at Danvers State Hospital. His team consists of CSI: Miami's David Caruso as a heartbroken Romeo, Stephen Gevedon as a law-school dropout aware of the building's history, Josh Lucas as a gambling addict, and Don't Breathe 2's Brendan Sexton III who has a pathological f...
While escaping a stalker, Claire Foy's Sawyer unwittingly signs an agreement to spend 24-hours in the custody of a psychiatric hospital. After she begs for police assistance, and has altercations with staff and inmates alike, she is retained for seven more days. This stressful Steven Soderbergh movie quickly unfolds, and secrets about the facility ...
The Ring's Gore Verbinski directs this neo-gothic psychological horror movie starring Dane DeHaan. When a financial executive visits a wellness center to retrieve his boss, he is turned away, only to be involved in a car crash that places him in the wellness center himself. There he meets another patient, Hannah, played by modern horror icon Mia Go...
This British film (dubbed House of Crazies in subsequent U.S. releases) was written by Robert Bloch, author of the novel Psycho, which became the Alfred Hitchcock classic. Based on Bloch's short stories, this anthology movie sees Dr Martin (Robert Powell) interviewing the inmates of a mental institute, taking us into the world of each of their four...
Robert Englund and Heather Langenkamp return as Freddy Krueger and Nancy respectively, this time joined by eventual household names Patricia Arquette and Lawrence Fishburne. After a run-in with Freddy leaves her wrists bloody, Arquette's Kristen is sent to Westin Hills Psychiatric Hospital because her mother fears she might be suicidal. There, the ...
What do Ben Kingsley, Kate Beckinsale, Michael Caine, David Thewlis and Brendan Gleeson all have in common? This all-star horror-thriller about the staff and patients at the titular mental asylum!This film, also known as Eliza Graves is loosely based on the 1845 short story The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether by Edgar Allan Poe. When an ...
An ex-Marine takes on the job of running a mental asylum in a remote castle, where he hopes to rehabilitate the patients by letting them act out their wildest fantasies. Sound familiar? This story by The Exorcist author William Peter Blatty (along with The Cabinet of Doctor Caligary) inspired the framework of Scorsese's Shutter Island. This impress...
Originally written in the 1940s for Fritz Lang under the title Straitjacket, Samuel Fuller wrote and directed this tale of a journalist played by Peter Breck. In a desperate attempt to win a Pulitzer Prize, Johnny Barrett (Breck) intentionally commits himself into a mental asylum, hoping to untangle the mystery of an unsolved murder, but as you'd e...
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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
Top 21 must-see best asylum movies from asylum movies, including The Silence of the Lambs, Santa Sangre, Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum, Shutter Island, Unsane, The Ninth Configuration, Severance, Session 9, Stonehearst Asylum, and The Dark Hours ranked and rated by score.
