Movies Set in Asylums
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- DirectorMark RobsonStarsBoris KarloffAnna LeeBilly HouseNell Bowen, the protégé of Lord Mortimer, wants to help change the conditions of notorious St. Mary's of Bethlehem Asylum (Bedlam). Though she tries to reform Bedlam, the cruel Master Sims who runs it has her committed there, but ultimately, it's the lunatics who've taken over the asylum.
- DirectorFreddie FrancisStarsDavid KnightMoira RedmondJennie LindenThe nights of young private-school student Janet are troubled by horrible dreams in which her mother, who is actually locked up in a mental institution, haunts her. When her persistent nightmares get her expelled and sent home, those visions insist on continuing to plague her at home.
- DirectorElio ScardamagliaLionello De FeliceStarsWilliam BergerFrançoise PrévostMary YoungPatients and staff of an isolated mental hospital are being killed off by a hooded maniac who stalks the halls.
- DirectorBert I. GordonStarsDon AmecheMartha HyerSusan GordonTeenage Susan Shelley is released from an asylum where she's been confined after the shock she suffered from her glamorous socialite mother Jessica's fiery death. Her father has a new wife, who has only married him for the money Jessica left him. Susan is still haunted by her mother's memory, and her stepmother is conspiring with her lover, Maxwell Reed, to trick the troubled girl into leading them to Jessica's missing diamond necklace.
- DirectorJohn Llewellyn MoxeyStarsBarbara StanwyckBarbara ParkinsRoddy McDowallOn her way home from a stay at a mental institution after a traumatic rape, a woman realizes that someone is deliberately trying to drive her insane.
- DirectorFernando Di LeoStarsKlaus KinskiMargaret LeeRosalba NeriA rehabilitation hospital in the Italian countryside which offers treatment for women suffering from various psychological disorders is stalked by a mysterious cloaked killer.
- DirectorRafael Moreno AlbaStarsAnalía GadéFrancisco RabalEspartaco SantoniTania, an asylum patient, is under the doctor's care while suffering raging behavioral effects that follow the death of her exorcised mother.
- DirectorWilliam GirdlerStarsCharles KissingerCarla BorelliNick JolleyA young woman is brought to an asylum to receive special treatment from a mysterious doctor. Dr. Spector does more than just run the hospital -- he offers his patients as sacrifices to Satan.
- DirectorMarc LawrenceStarsToni LawrenceJesse VintCatherine RossThe owner of a roadside diner, and his new helper, kill people and feed them to pigs.
- DirectorMichael HugoStarsDavid BookJoan DevlonDianne GalkeA nymphomaniac goes to a sanitarium in hopes of being cured; it turns out the sanitarium is a front for a Satanic cult luring young women into a web of madness, torture, and sex... But mostly just sex.
- DirectorHan Hsiang LiStarsShen ChanHsi ChangWei-Ying ChenThree inmates in an asylum tell their stories. Story 1, a husband and wife discover they should be careful what they wish for. Story 2, a naked female ghost gets revenge from her watery grave. Story 3, a dead prostitute returns as a ghost.
- DirectorRoger WatkinsStarsMarion JoyceErik RolfeG.E. BarrymoreYears after being traumatized by witnessing the drowning deaths of her beloved father and stepmother as a child, a wealthy young woman is released from a sanitarium and returns to the remote country estate where she grew up. Shortly afterwards, her psychiatrist, her estranged, greedy brother, and his beautiful but immoral fiance converge on the estate and a series of grisly murders begins.
- DirectorRoger ChristianStarsKathryn HarroldZeljko IvanekShirley KnightA disturbed telepathic man is unable to fully control his ability to transmit his dreams and visions into the minds of the people around him, or even influence reality. A female therapist tries to help him, but his mother gets in the way.
- DirectorAndrew FlemingStarsJennifer RubinBruce AbbottRichard LynchThe lone survivor of a suicide cult wakes from a thirteen-year coma in a psychiatric ward, where other patients suddenly start dying under mysterious and gruesome circumstances.Seen.
- DirectorDennis BerryStarsMaud AdamsScott RendererAlexandra StewartA young psychiatrist tries to help a young woman in an asylum who has been accused of having killed a teenage girl. But when she escapes and he goes after her, he finds himself involved in a mystery far greater than simply a woman thought to be insane. And the more he finds out about her, and her relationship to a mother who no longer will have anything to do with her, the more he finds that he is dealing with something terribly unnatural... which leads to a final resolution and revelation that makes the film not only unpredictable, but haunting as well.
- DirectorBrett LeonardStarsJeremy SlateCheryl LawsonStephen Gregory FosterThe 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.Seen.
- DirectorPhilippe SetbonStarsJeff GoldblumKathy BakerAlan BatesA serial killer gets sent to a mental institution, but as his insidious presence cause the doctors and orderlies to receive strange visions, his psychiatrist tries to find out his true identity.
- DirectorCharles WinklerStarsMalcolm McDowellGeoffrey LewisPriscilla Pointer10 years ago the perverse Dr. Russell couldn't resist the beauty of a young patient in his mental clinic and raped her one night. When she plunged herself from the roof shortly after, he described it as consequence of her heavy depressions. Now the same urge overcomes him with his new patient Sandy. He doesn't know that she's the daughter of his previous victim and that she's come for revenge.Seen.
- DirectorTodd SheetsStarsLori HasselMatthew LewisJ.T. TaubeLisa is running around in a labyrinth inhabited by cannibal lunatics. Or is it a dream? Or is it a dream that it is a dream? Or...?
- DirectorScott ReynoldsStarsPaolo RotondoPaul GloverChris GrahamA female psychologist wants to understand the minds of a confessed serial killer who spent the last five years in a mental hospital because of his state.
- DirectorGregory GierasStarsPaulina PorizkovaJudd NelsonLarry DrakeA madman terrorizes a female psychologist when they are accidently locked up in an abandoned asylum.
- DirectorTibor TakácsStarsSara DowningAmy ParksBailey ChaseTabloid reporter Samantha (Sara Downing, "Never Been Kissed") goes undercover at the Brookdale Institute to break a story about celebrity drug addicts, but she soon discovers that the real scoop is far more terrifying.
- DirectorWilliam ButlerStarsJoshua LeonardJordan LaddNatasha LyonneA young psychiatric intern unearths secrets about the mental health facility in which he works.Seen.
- DirectorDavid CarrerasStarsCristina BrondoDemián BichirMarisol MembrilloA woman suffers a traumatic incident as a young girl, whereas she doesn't know which reality is the real one.Seen.
- DirectorMark Edwin RobinsonStarsKelly OvertonJames HavenJennette McCurdyA medical student is assigned to a psychiatric patient to discover the truth about a brutal murder, but he instead rants about danger in the outside world. The student dismisses his claims as paranoia - until someone begins.
- DirectorPhilip Adrian BoothStarsSteffany HuckabyMelanie LewisYolanda PecoraroFor an initiation stunt, five college women are locked in a Kentucky hospital built in 1910 where 63,000 people died from a disease known as the "white plague". Deep under the hospital is the "Death Tunnel" which once were used to secretly remove the dead from the grounds.Seen.
- DirectorAnthony C. FerranteStarsTrish CorenRachel HarlandJilon VanOverThere are rumors that a long shut down and neglected hospital is haunted by the inhabitants that died there in a fire. Four college students are about to discover that the myths might just be true.Seen.
- DirectorChristopher Saint BoothStarsChristopher Saint BoothPhilip Adrian BoothKeith AgeSPOOKED, The Ghosts of Waverly Hills Sanatorium, documents paranormal evidence including, ORBS, EVPS, Shadow People, Ghostly Photography and video, interviews with actual patients, ghost hunters and the people of Waverly Hills Sanatorium. If you don't believe in ghosts, you will NOW!!! 83 minutes of ghostly evidence of the damned. No documentary takes you closer to the truth that ghosts exist. HEAR and SEE the FEAR.
- DirectorRichard ValentineStarsKim TylerMatt BorlenghiDanni RavdenWhen a group of psychiatric hospital nurses invoke the spirit of Bloody Mary-a supposed urban myth-the slaughter begins. First, a young nursing assistant disappears, her body never found. Now, patients are turning up dead-battered beyond recognition, soaked in blood, their eyes ripped out. Mary's wrath has begun. Freed from her eternal prison behind the mirror's reflection, she unleashes a murderous, maniacal fury upon the asylum. Moving at will through mirrors, she strikes when her victims are unsuspecting, defenseless, and alone. Bloody Mary's legend is real, her vengeance is fatal, and to free her, all you have to do is say her name.
- DirectorJong-hoon JungStarsLee An-NaEun-jin BaekSon Jong BumJi-Yeon, a tollgate ticket girl, is frightened by a mysterious black car, which hands over a bloodstained ticket as a fee at midnight.
- DirectorAdam MasonStarsAndrew HowardPollyanna RoseOlivia HillWith a pocketful of drugs, Nick West takes out his girlfriend Sammy, for a good time. When they explore an abandoned asylum, the discovery of a bizarre device, a cross between an electric chair and sadistic fetish machine, transforms drugged-out bliss into agony and despair. After Sammy is brutally assaulted and murdered by unseen forces, Nick becomes the number-one suspect. Years pass and Nick, who had been locked up in a mental hospital, is released into the care of eminent psychiatrist Dr. Willard, who is hell-bent on exposing the truth behind the killing. Accompanied by Dr. Willard and several of his students, Nick returns to the scene of the crime. However, the decrepit asylum hides a blood-drenched secret.Seen.
- DirectorPatrick McBreartyStarsJacqueline BettsBobby HorvathLiam CardWhile on a research outing, a group of urban explorers get more than they bargained for when the visit the site of an abandoned mental hospital and discover it's hiding a terrifying secret. Trapped in this giant prison, they start to disappear one by one. Their only chance to escape... to put together seemingly random clues, avoid a killer, and use their unique skills to survive.
- DirectorDavid R. EllisStarsSarah RoemerJake MuxworthyMark RolstonSix college students discover their dorm was once an insane asylum that conducted gruesome lobotomies on its teenage inmates during the 1930's.
- DirectorMarcel SarmientoGadi HarelStarsShiloh FernandezNoah SeganCandice KingTwo high school boys discover an imprisoned woman in an abandoned mental asylum who cannot die.Seen.
- DirectorJeff BuhlerStarsJesse MetcalfeKiele SanchezPeter StormareAfter he's institutionalized in order to cover for his sister, a young man encounters a doctor who is turning his patients into flesh-eating psychopaths.
- DirectorEdward BarbiniStarsChad Michael CollinsNicole DionneAce GibsonA group of friends on a road trip seek shelter at a mental institution in the woods, only to discover that the building is the home of a mysterious young girl named Roxy whose unsettling presence serves as a foreshadow of doom. Later, as the group attempt to unravel the mystery of Roxy, who seems to have endured years of abuse, a mysterious killer begins to hunt them from the darkness.
- DirectorJuan López MoctezumaStarsClaudio BrookArthur HanselEllen ShermanThe inmates of an insane asylum take over the institution, imprison the doctors and staff, then put into action their own ideas of how the place should be run.
- DirectorToshio MatsumotoStarsYôji MatsudaShijaku KatsuraHideo MurotaA young man kills his bride on the day of his marriage and goes insane. He wakes up in an asylum with no memory, left in the hands of two mysterious doctors who relate his condition with his biological identity.
- DirectorC.W. CresslerStarsJeff FaheyKellie WaymireJohn FurlongTwo serial killers meet and fall in love in an asylum for the criminally insane. Upon escaping their corrupt captors, they flee to the country to try and lead a happy, normal life. Unfortunately, "normal" turns out to be a state of mind...an elusive state of mind.
- DirectorBrett PiperStarsRob MonkiewiczRachael RobbinsErin BrownSleaze photographer Roger Neale and three beautiful models take up residence in a reportedly haunted old building - an ideal location for Neale's photographic "study in terror."
- DirectorBrad WatsonStarsAdrienne CarlyleMichelle EsclapezDavid HortonWhen Ellen Cole goes undercover at a mental asylum to rescue her brother, she is unaware that she is about to encounter her worst nightmares, for St. Mariahs Hospital for the criminally insane holds a dark secret. Deep in the dark recesses of the Asylum, Vampires have been caged for experiments and on this festive night the vampires will rise to draw blood again. Whilst in the hospital ballroom the party guests are blissfully unaware of the horror heading straight for them. With only the help of a whimsical police bobby and a pathalogical killer can Ellen escape the insanity of the Asylum?
- DirectorTony MarkStarsPaul J. AlessiRobert W. ArbogastTammy BellisleA woman with amnesia is admitted into a mental hospital for evaulation. As her past gets unconvered we find a path of murder and destruction is following her. Is she the monster or a fleeing victim.
- DirectorPhilip J. JonesStarsBruce PayneMatt StasiTracy ScogginsJames Bishop is a young psychology resident, excited about his new job at St. Andrews Mental Hospital and the chance to help severely ill patients. The excitement changes to puzzlement, concern and finally terror as some of those patients mysteriously die and James' efforts to find the cause results in increasingly strange behavior from the St. Andrews staff. Things begin to clarify when James finally encounters the Harvester...
- DirectorRay KilbyStarsMark HomerLouisa Milwood-HaighRichard HansonYoung people break into a former asylum to stage a rave party, but soon strange and horrible things start to happen.
- DirectorRon BonkStarsLisa ChelenzaChrissy FrickBob FullenbaumA small expedition explores a haunted insane asylum!
- DirectorAndrew CymekStarsWilliam B. DavisJohn Rhys-DaviesBrigitte KingsleyA group of people get trapped in an asylum with several dangerous patients, but one person in there is a serial killer responsible for the deaths of many children.
- DirectorWilliam MaloneStarsSean YoungPatrick KilpatrickDylan M. McKnightA horror-thriller centered on a woman (Wilson) suffering from a medical condition that causes her to sleep her life away, waking briefly on rare occasions.
- DirectorPierre De MoroTom DeSimoneStarsRay SharkeyJudy LandersMarjoe GortnerA young woman becomes amnesiac after an attack by a hired killer. She's admitted to a mental asylum run by a ruthless doctor who experiments on her patients with a lethal drug, and her attacker just got employed there.
- DirectorMichael Toshiyuki UnoStarsTiffani ThiessenTim MathesonMelinda CuleaWhen Annalisse and her mother move into a new house she starts seeing a girl her age. She later finds that the girl is dead and she sets out to find out what happened to her.