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Directed by: Rafael Moreno Alba
Stars: Analía Gadé, Francisco Rabal, Espartaco Santoni, María Asquerino, Helga Liné, Yelena Samarina
After witnessing her mother die during a brutal exorcism, a young woman is left psychologically shattered and confined to a grim institution for women — a place where medicine, religion, and raw control bleed into one another. Inside its decaying walls, the patients are treated less like people…
Directed by: Michael Hugo
Stars: Dianne Galke, Joan Devlon, John Seeman, Justina Lynne, Turk Lyon, Bunny Savage, Toni Scott, David Book
Lucy is the newest nympho/masochist patient at a sanitarium that just so happens to double as the lair of a bunch of Satanic cult worshiping doctors. The fun starts pretty early on as Lucy is "treated" by the nurses in various "interesting" fashions, including some good old fashion…
Directed by: Frederick Wiseman
Stars: n/a
The most banned film in American history — because it told the truth. Before One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, before exposé journalism turned institutional abuse into headlines, Frederick Wiseman took his camera into the Bridgewater State Hospital for the Criminally Insane — and captured what no one…
Directed by: Mariano Laurenti
Stars: Nadia Cassini, Lino Banfi, Paolo Giusti, Karin Schubert
A gang of art thieves hides stolen paintings inside a military insane asylum, prompting nightclub singer Grazia (Nadia Cassini) to go undercover as a nurse in order to recover them. Disguised in her white uniform, she quickly becomes the center of attention—not only for the eccentric patients who…
Directed by: Fernando Di Leo
Set in a secluded psychiatric clinic deep in the countryside, La Bestia Uccide a Sangue Freddo follows a series of brutal murders that terrorize the facility. The institution, overseen by the enigmatic Doctor Clay (Klaus Kinski), houses a group of female patients suffering from various psychological disorders. However,…
Directed by: Richard Friedman
Stars: Patty Mullen, Ruth Collins, Kristin Davis, Michael Rogen, William Hay
After a tragic car accident, attorney Mitch Hansen survives but is presumed dead. During his autopsy, he awakens in agony, killing the medical examiners and emerging horribly disfigured. Now, he haunts the abandoned mental asylum where he was once held, lurking in the shadows and waiting for new…
Directed by: Jesús Franco
Stars: Lina Romay, Monica Swinn, Raymond Hardy, Peggy Markoff, Martine Stedil, Andrea Rigano
Lady Doriana Grey, who haunts her isolated castle, and her twin sister who has been driven insane after being institutionalised at a young age. In the mental facility, the sister is under the care of Dr. Orloff. The two share a psychic connection, and along with their similar…
Directed by: Marco Ferreri
Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Hanna Schygulla, Marcello Mastroianni, Tanya Lopert, Bettina Grühn, Nana Aslanoglu, Laura Trotter
This sometimes confusing erotic drama about the incestuous relationship of a mother and daughter is based on the autobiography of Italian theater actress Piera Degli Esposti though it focuses more on her mother Eugenia (Hanna Schygulla). Piera was a beautiful girl and desired child in a wealthy family.…
Directed by: Fleming B. Fuller
Stars: Daphne Zuniga, James Wilder, Alexandra Paul, Don Harvey
J.D. returns to his small Texas hometown where four years ago he left Carrie at the altar. She’s now a deputy sheriff, and she’s not happy to see him. He soon has a job offer in Bakersfield, so he’s off to California with Carrie telling him not to…
Directed by: Pierre De Moro, Tom DeSimone
Stars: Judy Landers, Mary Wornov, Ray Sharkey, Edy Williams, Richard Cox, Terry Moore, Marjoe Gortner, Marneen Fields, Robert Z'Dar
An unlucky woman's mother is murdered by a scarf-wielding killer named Silk, leaving the woman injured, traumatised and suffering from amnesia. She's committed to a mental institution, where Silk follows her, looking for the papers he was trying to get from her mother. And Silk's only the beginning…
Directed by: Marc B. Ray
Stars: Fred Holbert, Leigh Mitchell, Robert Knox, Ron Bastone, Suzette Hamilton, A. Maana Tanelah, Florence Lea, Angus Scrimm
A disturbed boy kills his father with his farm tractor and his arm is mangled in the process. He's taken to a mental hospital where he's outfitted with a hook to replace his lost hand and, years later, he's eventually released from the asylum. He returns home to…
Directed by: Brett Piper
Stars: Rob Monkiewicz, Rachael Robbins, Erin Brown (as Misty Mundae), A.J. Khan, Heidi Kristoffer, Sylvianne Chebance
Into an abandoned insane asylum pass six individuals who are about to discover its terrifying secrets and come face to face with its blackest horrors... Sleaze photographer Roger Neale and three beautiful models take up residence in a reportedly haunted old building - an ideal location for Neale's…
Directed by: Jerry Ciccoritti
Stars: John Haslett Cuff, Darlene Mignacco, Rose Graham, Agi Gallus
A young girl, Sarah Tusk (Darlene Mignacco), who is sent to an asylum after lacing her parents' breakfast with rat poison. Years later, the nutty woman escapes, and, with the help of a few other fellow lunatics, sets out to capture and kill anyone who has upset her.…
Directed by: Jesus Franco
Stars: Lina Romay, Nanda Van Bergen, Michael Maien, Esther Studer, Brigitte Meyer, Monica Swinn, Peggy Markoff, Dagmar Bürger, Ly Frey
Spending her holidays on the Swiss/Italian border, Margareta (Lina Romay) meets charming Sandra Mauro (Monica Swinn) and her husband. She agrees to stay in their house for the rest of her vacation, unaware that they are going to use her for smuggling diamonds over the border. There they…
Directed by: Tobe Hooper
Stars: Steve Railsback, Peter Firth, Mathilda May, Frank Finlay, Patrick Stewart, Nancy Paul
The space shuttle Churchill is assigned to observe Halley's Comet under the command of Colonel Tom Carlsen. They see a strange form attached to the comet and Carlsen goes with a team to investigate. They find three humanoid life forms in caskets and they bring them to the…
Directed by: Claudio Castravelli
Stars: Pamela Collyer, Jack Langedijk, Walter Massey, Nanette Workman, Roland Nincheri, Suzanne DeLaurentiis
"Evil Judgment," although completed in 1981, faced post-production issues that kept it from joining the peak-year horror releases. It languished on the shelves for three years and was finally released directly to video in 1984. Such a fate typically befalls the weakest entries in the genre, so the…
Directed by: Dino Risi
Stars: Vittorio Gassman, Catherine Deneuve, Danilo Mattei, Anicée Alvina, Ester Carloni
Tino is an art student. He arrives to Venice to paint and live with his aunt and uncle in their old-school antiquarian mansion. Not very long after his arrival he hears strange sounds coming from a room upstairs. Somebody is living in the attic. A lunatic brother of…
Directed by: John Farris
Stars: Agnes Moorehead, Will Geer, Michael Ansara, Dennis Patrick, Anne Meacham, Patricia Carmichael, Elizabeth Eis, Ruth Baker, Ann Gibbs
Ailing miserly matriarch Delilah Charles (a deliciously wicked and formidable portrayal by Agnes Moorehead) lives on a large plantation estate. Her various greedy and back-stabbing siblings gather together to collect Delilah's sizeable inheritance only to get bumped off left and right by a mysterious axe-wielding killer.
Directed by: Pasquale Festa Campanile
Stars: Lando Buzzanca, Laura Antonelli, Ferruccio De Ceresa
Niccolò Vivaldi is a cello player and he plays in the Arena di Verona Orchestra. But he is not the first and neither the second cello. He is frustrated. Nobody can remember his face, nor his name. Niccolò is married to Costanza, who is really beautiful and he…
Directed by: Milos 'Misa' Radivojevic
Stars: Milja Vujanovic, Dragan Nikolic, Slobodan Aligrudic
Psychological drama about two young lovers who are emotionally and mentally unstable. Through the flashback they are telling what did they do before they end up in asylum.
