10.4.09

asylum (1972)

aka House of Crazie.
A young doctor arrives at a lunatic asylum and is set the task of interviewing four patients and determining which one was the former head doctor, who has subsequently gone insane. Thus follows four separate stories of various descents into madness. Will the doctor deduce correctly.
Well written and filmed, with stories that are all sufficiently different to maintain your interest and a startlingly nihilistic ending for the period. This is a product of a company that had honed its product and filled it with stars of the day, everyone from Peter Cushing, Charlotte Rampling, Britt Ekland and Richard Todd, amongst others pop up. Whilst there is nothing new here, it is a good solid example of the genre of portmanteau horror.

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