Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "escaped-lunatic"

1. Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon (2006)

R | 92 min | Comedy, Horror, Thriller

The next great killer and psychopath has given a documentary film crew exclusive access to his life as he plans his reign of terror over the quiet town of Glen Echo.

Director: Scott Glosserman | Stars: Nathan Baesel, Angela Goethals, Zelda Rubinstein, Robert Englund

Votes: 25,458 | Gross: $0.07M

2. The Cat and the Canary (1927)

Passed | 108 min | Comedy, Horror, Mystery

Relatives of an eccentric millionaire gather in his spooky mansion on the 20th anniversary of his death for the reading of his will.

Director: Paul Leni | Stars: Laura La Plante, Creighton Hale, Forrest Stanley, Tully Marshall

Votes: 3,373 | Gross: $0.33M

3. Voyage of the Rock Aliens (1984)

PG | 97 min | Comedy, Musical, Sci-Fi

Aliens land in the town of "Speelburgh" searching for the source of rock & roll. They find trouble with Dee Dee, Frankie and the pack.

Director: James Fargo | Stars: Pia Zadora, Craig Sheffer, Tom Nolan, Ruth Gordon

Votes: 1,573

4. King of Hearts (1966)

Not Rated | 102 min | Comedy, Drama, War

During World War I, a British private, sent ahead to a French town to scout for enemy presence, is mistaken for a King by the colorful patients of an insane asylum.

Director: Philippe de Broca | Stars: Alan Bates, Geneviève Bujold, Pierre Brasseur, Jean-Claude Brialy

Votes: 4,342 | Gross: $0.02M

5. Night Screams (1987)

85 min | Horror

A football star throws a party for his friends. Two insane killers escape from a nearby asylum on that same night, and in their efforts to elude authorities, wind up at the party.

Director: Allen Plone | Stars: Joseph Paul Manno, Ron Thomas, Randy Lundsford, Megan Wyss

Votes: 671

6. Twentieth Century (1934)

91 min | Comedy, Romance

A flamboyant Broadway impresario who has fallen on hard times tries to get his former lover, now a Hollywood diva, to return and resurrect his failing career.

Director: Howard Hawks | Stars: John Barrymore, Carole Lombard, Walter Connolly, Roscoe Karns

Votes: 7,253

7. Trick or Treats (1982)

R | 91 min | Horror

A baby sitter is stuck watching over a young brat on Halloween night who keeps playing vicious pranks on her. To add to her trouble the boy's deranged father has escaped from an asylum and is planning on making a visit.

Director: Gary Graver | Stars: Jacqueline Giroux, Peter Jason, Chris Graver, David Carradine

Votes: 1,528

8. Stranger on the Third Floor (1940)

Approved | 64 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

An aspiring reporter is the key witness at the murder trial of a young man accused of cutting a café owner's throat and is soon accused of a similar crime himself.

Director: Boris Ingster | Stars: Peter Lorre, John McGuire, Margaret Tallichet, Charles Waldron

Votes: 4,611

9. Hurra - Die Schwedinnen sind da (1978)

84 min | Comedy

Nikki Moser, a blond womanizer, made a deal with the burgomaster. He gave him money to buy a hotel, and for this Nikki should marry his daughter Marianne.

Director: Franz Josef Gottlieb | Stars: Scarlett Gunden, Wolf Goldan, Corinne Brodbeck, Bea Fiedler

Votes: 134

10. The Haunted Strangler (1958)

Approved | 78 min | Crime, Mystery, Horror

A researcher investigating a notorious serial killer who was hanged 20 years earlier seemingly becomes possessed by the long-dead strangler.

Director: Robert Day | Stars: Boris Karloff, Anthony Dawson, Derek Birch, Dorothy Gordon

Votes: 2,043

11. Charlie Chan at the Opera (1936)

Passed | 68 min | Mystery

A dangerous amnesiac escapes from an asylum, hides in the opera house, and is suspected of getting revenge on those who tried to murder him 13 years ago.

Director: H. Bruce Humberstone | Stars: Warner Oland, Boris Karloff, Keye Luke, Charlotte Henry

Votes: 2,268

12. The Ghost Walks (1934)

Passed | 69 min | Comedy, Mystery, Thriller

During a stormy night at an old dark mansion, people who claim to see ghosts roaming the halls are later found murdered.

Director: Frank R. Strayer | Stars: John Miljan, June Collyer, Richard Carle, Henry Kolker

Votes: 632

13. Dial 1119 (1950)

Passed | 75 min | Film-Noir, Thriller

An escaped psychiatric patient causes havoc.

Director: Gerald Mayer | Stars: Marshall Thompson, Virginia Field, Andrea King, Sam Levene

Votes: 1,585

14. Lighthouse (1999)

R | 95 min | Horror, Thriller

Members of a sunken prison ship take refuge at an old lighthouse, unaware one of their most notorious criminals has taken shelter there as well.

Director: Simon Hunter | Stars: James Purefoy, Rachel Shelley, Christopher Adamson, Paul Brooke

Votes: 1,316

15. Rapport till himlen (1994)

Drama

Victor is close to drowning. After the accident he can see the dead. There is a murderer loose in the town who kills young women. To enter heaven everyone has to write a report. In case of ... See full summary »

Stars: Johan Widerberg, Lina Englund, Stellan Skarsgård, Kjell Bergqvist

Votes: 639

16. Dr. Jack (1922)

Passed | 60 min | Comedy, Romance

Country doctor Jack Jackson is called in to treat the Sick-Little-Well-Girl, who has been making Dr. Saulsbourg and his sanitarium very rich, after years of unsuccessful treatment. Dr. ... See full summary »

Directors: Fred C. Newmeyer, Sam Taylor | Stars: Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, John T. Prince, Eric Mayne

Votes: 1,675 | Gross: $0.69M

17. Der rote Rausch (1962)

88 min | Thriller

A serial killer is on the run, after escaping a mental institution. He befriends a woman and her child, but the urge to strangle women with red necklaces still haunts him.

Director: Wolfgang Schleif | Stars: Klaus Kinski, Brigitte Grothum, Marina Petrova, Sieghardt Rupp

Votes: 135

18. Roast-Beef and Movies (1934)

Passed | 16 min | Short, Comedy, Music

A trio of amateur film makers try to persuade a group of studio executives to exhibit their new movie.

Director: Sam Baerwitz | Stars: George Givot, Curly Howard, Bob Callahan, Albertina Rasch Dancers

Votes: 265

19. Garden Tool Massacre (1997)

Unrated | 70 min | Horror

Psychopath Charles Scavolini escapes the mental institution and returns to his home. Now occupied by a gang of partying teenagers, Scavolini takes back his property with brutal blood lust.

Director: David Hinds | Stars: Richard Boulton, Tammy Dennis, Steven Garbett, Peter Hicken

Votes: 73

20. Koko Nuts (1925)

6 min | Animation, Comedy, Short

Ko-Ko and Fitz assume control of an insane asylum.

Director: Dave Fleischer | Stars: Dave Fleischer, Max Fleischer

Votes: 49

21. Strange Case of Hennessy (1933)

20 min | Short, Comedy, Musical

An escaped lunatic poses as famed detective Silo Dance in this musical comedy mystery set in an old dark house in this spoof of S.S. Van Dine's famed sleuth Philo Vance.

Director: Ray McCarey | Stars: Cliff Edwards, Jack Fulton, Jean Sargent, Fred Hillebrand

Votes: 6

22. Doctor, Feel My Pulse (1944)

Passed | 17 min | Comedy, Short

Vera, a hypochondriac, mistakes an escaped lunatic for a physician who can help "cure" her.

Director: Jules White | Stars: Barbara Jo Allen, Jack Norton, George J. Lewis, Christine McIntyre

Votes: 25

23. Thriller (1973–1976)
Episode: The Carnation Killer (1973)

TV-14 | 66 min | Crime, Drama, Fantasy

A serial killer escapes in transit to the asylum to which he has been confined. He picks a seemingly innocent woman as his next victim, but soon it looks like she's not quite as innocent as he thought.

Director: Robert Tronson | Stars: Norman Eshley, Katherine Schofield, Derek Smith, Garrick Hagon

Votes: 260

24. Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–1962)
Episode: The Gentleman from America (1956)

TV-14 | 30 min | Drama, Mystery

Rich American Howard Latimer visits London, and bets 1,000 pounds that he can spend the night in a room that is said to be haunted.

Director: Robert Stevens | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Biff McGuire, Ralph Clanton, John Irving

Votes: 846

25. Only Fools and Horses (1981–2003)
Episode: Friday the 14th (1983)

TV-14 | 29 min | Comedy

A fishing trip to Cornwall is on the cards for the Trotters, with a stay in Boycie's empty weekend cottage. However, on arriving on a dark, stormy night with powerlines in the area down, ... See full summary »

Director: Ray Butt | Stars: David Jason, Nicholas Lyndhurst, Lennard Pearce, Christopher Malcolm

Votes: 736

26. Rescue 8 (1958–1960)
Episode: A Handful of Vengeance (1959)

30 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

A deranged pyromaniac attacks a forest fire warden, shoots the fire wardens wife and locks their 2 young children in a storage room. When Wes and Skip arrive, they get locked in the ... See full summary »

Director: Robert G. Walker | Stars: Jim Davis, Lang Jeffries, Harlan Warde, Anne Bellamy