Asylum (1972)

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"Plot: Another grim anthology from Amicus Production with stories written by Robert Bloch (Psycho) all centering on the patients of an asylum. Armed with an interesting framing story that nicely ties into the events by the end and starring an assortment of familiar faces for fans of British horror, "Asylum" packs a somewhat distinctive punch with tales that wouldn't feel out of place in an EC comic or an episode of The Twilight Zone. The stranger stories come off stronger (especially the final "

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"When Dr. Martin goes on a job interview at a British insane asylum, he learns that he must interview the asylum's inmates in order to be considered for the position. Dr. Rutherford, who is wheelchair-bound because of an assault by an inmate, tells Dr. Martin that he will consider him for the position if he can discover which of the inmates is Dr. Starr, a former head doctor at the asylum who suffered a nervous breakdown. This is Amicus' 5th anthology horror movie with 4 great stories: a man dec"

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"Yo this movie might be the dumbest thing these eyes have ever witnessed and that's one high bar So you've got this fairly offensive take on mental illness being used as a framing device for an anthology film where the psychiatrists make very unfriendly-to-patients bets leading to our chiseled lead having to interview four c-c-c-crazy loonies so we can hear their spooooky stories. They're all cackling maniacs, of course, though the film tries towards the end to make their inflections to be somew"

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""You have nothing to lose but your mind""

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"First viewing - Oct. 12th No Horrorfest would be complete without at least one anthology, so I decided to check this one out. The way it began got me really excited mainly because of its use of "A Night On Bald Mountain" which is one of my favorite classical pieces. I dug the framework of this one, which sets us up to follow an aspiring employee of the titular asylum who is tasked with figuring out which patient is actually the head doctor, stripped of his authority because he's gone mad. The w"

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