CLASSIC HORROR FILMS


Asylum
1972

| 88 MINS | COLOUR | AMICUS |




OVERVIEW

When a young Psychiatrist, Dr Martin, goes to a remote asylum for a position, he expects to be interviewed by a Dr Starr, but instead he is greeted by Dr Rutherford. Dr Rutherford explains that Dr Starr is now one of the patients and that if he can tell which of four inmates is the real Dr Starr, the position is his. Four stories are related by the inmates:-

(1.) Frozen Fear: Walter, a cheating husband, wants to get rid of his wife, Ruth, so that he can go off with his mistress. After he kills Ruth and chops her body up, he realises that her necklace may have imbued her body with strange powers.

(2.) The Weird Tailor: Bruno, a Jewish tailor, is approached by a man with a strange request. He asks him to make a suit for his son but that it must be made with a weird material and only during the hours of darkness. When he delivers the suit, he sees the amazing result of his handiwork.

(3.) Lucy Came To Stay: After recovering from a nervous breakdown, Barbara stays with her brother and nurse. Being lonely, she is cheered to find that her old friend Lucy has managed somehow to get into the house. Barbara tells Lucy that her brother and nurse are keeping her prisoner.

(4.) Mannequins Of Horror: Dr Byron, a surgeon, makes small dolls with real organs, and he believes that he can bring them to life. He wants to use them to gain vengeance on the asylum that has imprisoned him.


Asylum 1972 - Amicus Films

Asylum -
Britt Ekland as Lucy



DIRECTOR

Roy Ward Baker


CAST

Britt Ekland -- Lucy

Herbert Lom -- Byron

Patrick Magee -- Dr. Rutherford

Barry Morse -- Bruno

Barbara Parkins -- Bonnie

Robert Powell -- Dr. Martin

Charlotte Rampling -- Barbara

Sylvia Syms -- Ruth

Richard Todd -- Walter

James Villiers -- George

Geoffrey Bayldon -- Max Reynolds

Ann Firbank -- Anna

Megs Jenkins -- Miss Higgins

John Franklyn-Robbins -- Stebbins




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