Asylum (1972)
You have nothing to lose but your mind.
A young psychiatrist applies for a job at a mental asylum and must pass a test by interviewing four patients. He must figure out which of the patients, is in fact, the doctor that he would be replacing if hired.
- Date of release
- 1972-11-17
- TMDB
- 6.1 / 10 (215)
- Runtime
- 1h 28m
- Genres
- Horror
- Director
- Roy Ward Baker
Casting
- Peter Cushing — Smith
- Patrick Magee — Dr. Lionel Rutherford
- Herbert Lom — Byron
- Britt Ekland — Lucy
- Barry Morse — Bruno
- Charlotte Rampling — Barbara
- Barbara Parkins — Bonnie
- Robert Powell — Dr. Martin
- Sylvia Syms — Ruth
- Richard Todd — Walter
- James Villiers — George
- Geoffrey Bayldon — Max Reynolds
Interesting facts
Asylum is a 1972 British anthology horror film made by Amicus Productions. The film was directed by Roy Ward Baker and produced by Milton Subotsky. Robert Bloch wrote the script, adapting four of his own short stories.
Production
The film was shot at the New Lodge country house, just outside the village of Winkfield, Berkshire, England.
Douglas Gamley is credited as having composed the music for this film, but the score also draws heavily on public domain pieces by Modest Mussorgsky, in particular Night on Bald Mountain (heard over the opening and closing credits).
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