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Asylum

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United Kingdom · 1972
Rated PG · 1h 28m
Director Roy Ward Baker
Starring Peter Cushing, Patrick Magee, Herbert Lom, Britt Ekland
Genre Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Dr. Martin, a young psychiatrist, arrives at a mental hospital for a job interview. He meets Dr. Rutherford, who has been left wheelchair-bound after an assault by a patient. In order for Dr. Martin to secure the job, Dr. Rutherford tasks him with interviewing four patients to discover the former doctor among them.

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TV Guide Magazine by

Buoyed by a distinguished cast of horror veterans, Bloch's well-written script, and Baker's deft direction, Asylum is the most satisfying of the horror anthologies of the 1970s.

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Slant Magazine by Jeremiah Kipp

Asylum tries telling similar tales (twice) and comes up pathetically short in the scare department, but the atmosphere and theatrics of the Amicus presentation make it a more than worthwhile trip down memory lane for die-hard horror buffs.

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The A.V. Club by Nick Schager

Asylum was written by Robert Bloch, the author of the original novel Psycho, and produced by the U.K.’s Amicus Productions, which was responsible for a series of horror anthologies during the ’60s and ’70s. Asylum remains, by far, their finest offering, in part because of its pitch-perfect gothic mood, and in part because its stories present varied perspectives on the depths of obsessive madness.

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Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert

I think Bloch and Rosenberg should get organized and take on the cabbage. If nothing else, a horror movie about cabbages could help Rosenberg work through his obsession and save a lot of analyst's fees.

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