Asylum (IV) (2008)

Six college students discover their dorm was once an insane asylum that conducted gruesome lobotomy's on its teenage inmates during the 1930's.

Director:

David R. Ellis

Writer:

Ethan Lawrence

Stars:

Sarah Roemer, Jake Muxworthy, Mark Rolston

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Sarah Roemer	...	Madison
Jake Muxworthy	...	Holt
Mark Rolston	...	The Doctor
Travis Van Winkle	...	Tommy
Ellen Hollman	...	Ivy
Carolina Garcia	...	Maya
Cody Kasch	...	String
Lin Shaye	...	String's Mother
Joe Inscoe	...	Mackey
Gabe Wood	...	Kelso
Randall Sims	...	Rez
Andrea Powell	...	Carol
Pete Burris	...	Lloyd
Caroline Kent	...	Madison At 11
Brantley Pollock	...	Brandon At 12 (as Brantley Pollack)

Storyline

The teenager Madison McBride is traumatized by the loss of her deranged father when she was nine years old and the suicide of her beloved brother Brandon one year ago. She decides to join the Richard Miller University, where Brandon committed suicide, to overcome her demons. While walking to her dorm, she meets the weird janitor Wilbur Mackey that tells her that the place is haunted. Madison befriends the recovering drug addicted Holt; the geek outcast String; the sexually abused Ivy and Maya; and the joker athlete Tommy. All the schoolmates have traumas and the veteran Rez is responsible for them. String discovers in Internet that in 1935, their dorm together with an attached abandoned section was an asylum administrated by Dr. Magnus Burke and considered a safe refugee for troubled teenagers with state-of-art treatment. However, in 1939, the interns uprose against the insane doctor, killing and disclosing the truth about his treatment. Sooner they find that their dorm is haunted by ...

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Plot Keywords:

asylum | suicide | college student | janitor | trauma | 

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Taglines:

Once you're in, you can never get out.

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Genres:

Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for strong horror violence and terror, disturbing images, language and brief nudity

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

15 July 2008 (USA)

Also Known As:

Internados

Filming Locations:

South Carolina, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Hyde Park Films, Mad Scientist Productions

Technical Specs

Runtime:

93 min

Color:

Color Color (technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Quotes

Madison: Give me your suffering, motherfucker!

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Connections

References Jaws (1975)

User Reviews

Not a bad horror film, part ghost story, part slasher.

I found ASYLUM sitting on a shelf at the local DVD store, I didn't know a thing about this movie but that hasn't stopped me before, I rented it, took it home, popped it in the player and as the pre-credits rolled I noticed two familiar names, one was that of the producer Ashok Amritaj whose other credits in the horror genre includes a more popular film called TRICK'R'TREAT and the second was David R. Ellis whose credits include FINAL DESTINATION 2 and 4 and CELLULAR, so I reckoned this film should either be interesting or it should really suck since I never heard of it.

The film turned out to be good after all, it wasn't something I would tell everyone about, it starts off as a ghost story setting up the mood developing the characters but later it turns more into a slasher and of course you get the usual set of clichés, but on the plus side the characters are of course your typical young teen slasher types but some of them are actually likable (halelluja a slasher with likable characters) it features pretty good cinematography that succeeds in creating atmosphere, it has a pretty cool villain that reminds me a bit of Freddy Kreuger and it doesn't resort to showcasing a bunch of tits and ass to make up for its poor script, although the script isn't that poor but its not that great either.

In way after watching this film I also thought if people wanted to know how would A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET be if it was brought out today, I would say just watch this film and I'm mainly saying that because of the villain of the story who preys on his victims fears, Freddy also preys on his victims fears but he does it through their dreams, I might be wrong but that's what I think.