Disturbed (1990)

Director:

Charles Winkler

Writers:

Emerson Bixby (screenplay)
Emerson Bixby (story)

Release Date:

16 November 1990 (USA)

Genre:

Horror | Thriller

Tagline:

The Doctor is in... but out of his mind!

Plot:

10 years ago the perverse Dr. Russell couldn't resist the beauty of a young patient in his mental clinic and raped her one night...

Plot Keywords:

Patient | Gagged And Bound | Murder | Rape | Suicide

Cast

Malcolm McDowell	...	Dr. Derrick Russell
Geoffrey Lewis	...	Michael Kahn
Priscilla Pointer	...	Nurse Francine
Pamela Gidley	...	Sandy Ramirez
Irwin Keyes	...	Pat Tuel
Clint Howard	...	Brian
Peter Murnik	...	Brad
Carrie Lynn	...	Tina
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Barbara Babbin	...	Visitor
Emerson Bixby	...	Mental Patient
Dean Cameron	...	Singing Telegram Man
Lydell M. Cheshier	...	Lidell
B. Lee Drew	...	Officer Bill Wyman
Lee Drew	...	Officer Bill
Sandra Ganzer	...	Young Sandy
Maria R. Kelly	...	Kari (as Maria Kelley)
Marla Levine	...	Nurse Leslie
Tony Markes	...	Officer Lenny
Kim McGuire	...	Selina
Irving William Moseley Jr.	...	Mr. Yorkin
Adam Rifkin	...	Gary
Michele Rifkin	...	Gary's Mother
Deep Roy	...	Marty
Jack David Walker	...	Swakertt

Runtime:

96 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

Iceland:16 | Spain:18 | Australia:M | France:-12 | Germany:16 | UK:18 | USA:R

Filming Locations:

Colorado, USA

Movie Connections:

References "The Johnny Carson Show" (1955)

A headf*ck classic!

I love this movie. It's hilarious, hellishly titillating, great at messing with the mind, and even enjoyable on its cheezier merits. In it, Malcolm McDowell plays a crooked psychiatrist who has made a habit of periodically abducting pretty patients from their rooms and raping them. At one point, he ends up making a major mistake and it looks pretty much like he and a patient of his have actually killed the sexy new patient he was going to ravage next. Soon, this corrupt scumbag starts to really flip his lid, not able to tell if the woman they killed is actually dead or not. The photography, the music, the sound, all of it was PERFECT! These filmmakers really know how to capture feelings of paranoia and utter dementia. Also, this movie is anti-psychiatry in all the right ways. Believe you me, I've been to some of these places! I know how those @ssholes really are, and it looks like Charles Winkler and company know, too. I do have to admit that there are a lot of typical "nut" cliches going on here, seeing as how mental patients are often portrayed as retarded people when they actually give off the appearance of being "normal" about eight times out of ten. Still, even this can be forgiveable because this movie was so much warped fun. The opening scene is pretty depressing and the end scene does have the director yelling "Cut it!", but one of the great things about this movie is watching it make a frenzied transition from dead-seriousness to absurdist hilarity with every further minute that passes. "Disturbed" is a minor classic that is tragically, painfully overlooked and underrated. It must be seen, so go watch it.