Monday, April 8, 2013

Asylum (1972)


Released November 17th in the US.
Filmed entirely in the UK.
The story: A psychiatrist visits a mental asylum, to see if its patients can be helped or are really benefiting from being there. He visits the patients and they all have their stories to tell him.
The first patient, Barbara, fought for her life in a story called "The Frozen Fear".
The second is a tailor whose life was changed through his work, in the story "The Weird Tailor".
The third patient is a woman who does bad things but blames them on her other personality in the story "Lucy Comes To Stay".
And lastly, the fourth patient is a brilliant man, who was a doctor and is now still working on a secret project. His story, "Mannikins Of Horror."
Stars Barbara Parkins , Richard Todd , Sylvia Syms , Barry Morse , Ann Firbank , John Franklyn-Robbins , Peter Cushing , Daniel Jones , Charlotte Rampling , James Villiers , Megs Jenkins , Britt Ekland , Herbert Lom , Patrick Magee , Robert Powell , Geoffrey Bayldon , Sylvia Marriott , Frank Forsyth , Tony Wall
Directed by Roy Ward Baker
Rated PG
HORROR/MYSTERY

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