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User Rating:
3.9/10   644 votes
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Director:
David R. Ellis
Writer:
Ethan Lawrence (writer)
Contact:
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Release Date:
15 July 2008 (USA) more
Genre:
Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller more
Tagline:
Once you're in, you can never get out.
Plot:
Six college students discover their dorm was once an insane asylum that conducted gruesome lobotomy's on its teenage inmates during the 1930's. full summary | add synopsis
NewsDesk:
(7 articles)
3 Official Clips from 'Friday the 13th'
 (From ESplatter. 1 February 2009, 8:55 PM, PST)

Dread Central's Best & Worst of 2008
 (From Dread Central. 29 December 2008, 7:09 PM, PST)

User Comments:
I Would Like to Give My Suffering for Watching This Movie more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Sarah Roemer ... Madison McBride

Jake Muxworthy ... Holt
Mark Rolston ... Doctor Burke

Travis Van Winkle ... Tommy

Ellen Hollman ... Ivy

Carolina Garcia ... Maya
Cody Kasch ... String

Lin Shaye ... String's Mother

Joe Inscoe ... Wilbur Mackey

Gabe Wood ... Officer Kelso

Randall Sims ... Rez

Andrea Powell ... Carol McBride
Pete Burris ... Lloyd McBride
Caroline Kent ... Madison, age 11

Brantley Pollock ... Brandon, age 12
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Additional Details

MPAA:
Rated R for strong horror violence and terror, disturbing images, language and brief nudity.
Runtime:
93 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color | Color (technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Filming Locations:
South Carolina, USA more

Fun Stuff

Quotes:
Madison: It's the first week. It's always hard. more
Movie Connections:
References Jaws (1975) more

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12 out of 14 people found the following comment useful:-
I Would Like to Give My Suffering for Watching This Movie, 2 September 2008
4/10
Author: Claudio Carvalho from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

The teenager Madison McBride (Sarah Roemer) is traumatized by the loss of her deranged father when she was nine year–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 (Joe Inscoe) that tells her that the place is haunted. Madison befriends the recovering drug addicted Holt (Jake Muxworthy); the geek outcast String (Cody Kasch); the sexually abused Ivy (Ellen Hollman) and Maya (Carolina Garcia); and the joker athlete Tommy (Travis Van Winkle). All the schoolmates have traumas and the veteran Rez (Randall Sims) 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 (Mark Rolston) 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 Dr. Burke that is seeking for tortured souls.

The lame "Asylum" is a forgettable collection of clichés that do not frighten or make laugh. The villain Dr. Burke slightly recalls Freddy Krueger with his sharp blades and bringing nightmarish memories to his victims. The characters are destroyed the same way they appear, without any development or care with the consequences. In accordance with the story, Mackey was eleven year-old in 1939. Therefore, in 2007, he would be seventy-nine year-old, still working and in an excellent shape. In the end, I would like to give my suffering for watching this terrible movie. My vote is four.

Title (Brazil): "Asylum – Não Estamos Sozinhos" ("Asylum – We Are not Alone")

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