Asylum
Asylum (2007): This movie has been done before but then, haven’t most stories been 
told over and over again. The key to success is to be sure you mask the hoary age of your tale so it looks new. Alas, while the movie is professionally done and the acting is reasonably good, the movie gives you the feeling you’ve seen it all before. At least it takes the time for some characte
r development so the victims have a little background explained before they expire. The story goes something like this: a group of students arriving at a small college are sentenced to stay in the partially completed ‘new’ dorm which was formerly run as an insane asylum. At this point déjà vuism cuts in immediately. It turns out each of the main characters is full of angst about their life and all harbor mental secrets. Our lead ingénue saw her nutzoid father kill himself and her older brother killed himself at this same college. And she wanted to get her higher education here? (Maybe she really is nuts too.)
Well, it seems she wanted to go to school here to help her get closure. Give me a break, everyone wants closure today. What the heck does that mean anyway? I know we have had closure of several restaurants in the area but that hasn’t helped the quality of life very much.
Sorry, I got off topic. She starts to meet some stereotypical college friends, has neurotic episodes where the necklace her mom gave tries to strangle her, and her shower fills up with water and she almost drowns. When her roommate hears her screaming, she is sitting at the bottom of the shower with the water running. At this point we, as well as she, suspect she may be nutzoid like her dear old dad. All we can do at this point is give thanks to the director for the extended nude shower scene.
Soon her friends are disappearing one by one and the campus police seem to be good only for standing around and telling everyone to stay calm. The old janitor who was a former patient tells them the tale about the evil doctor who felt lobotomy by driving spikes through your eyelids and into your brain was the answer to mental illness. Soon the movie deteriorates into the reincarnated doctor chasing the remaining students around the building. Not bad as far as these types of movies go but as I said, you will get a heavy portion of déjà vu while watching. The movie spiked an R for: underwater nude shower scene, multiple lobotomies, spikes to the eye, spikes to the heart, spikes to just about every part of the body imaginable, death by twine, barbed wire wrap, and especially for the de-souling of the villain.
told over and over again. The key to success is to be sure you mask the hoary age of your tale so it looks new. Alas, while the movie is professionally done and the acting is reasonably good, the movie gives you the feeling you’ve seen it all before. At least it takes the time for some characte
r development so the victims have a little background explained before they expire. The story goes something like this: a group of students arriving at a small college are sentenced to stay in the partially completed ‘new’ dorm which was formerly run as an insane asylum. At this point déjà vuism cuts in immediately. It turns out each of the main characters is full of angst about their life and all harbor mental secrets. Our lead ingénue saw her nutzoid father kill himself and her older brother killed himself at this same college. And she wanted to get her higher education here? (Maybe she really is nuts too.)Well, it seems she wanted to go to school here to help her get closure. Give me a break, everyone wants closure today. What the heck does that mean anyway? I know we have had closure of several restaurants in the area but that hasn’t helped the quality of life very much.
Sorry, I got off topic. She starts to meet some stereotypical college friends, has neurotic episodes where the necklace her mom gave tries to strangle her, and her shower fills up with water and she almost drowns. When her roommate hears her screaming, she is sitting at the bottom of the shower with the water running. At this point we, as well as she, suspect she may be nutzoid like her dear old dad. All we can do at this point is give thanks to the director for the extended nude shower scene.
Soon her friends are disappearing one by one and the campus police seem to be good only for standing around and telling everyone to stay calm. The old janitor who was a former patient tells them the tale about the evil doctor who felt lobotomy by driving spikes through your eyelids and into your brain was the answer to mental illness. Soon the movie deteriorates into the reincarnated doctor chasing the remaining students around the building. Not bad as far as these types of movies go but as I said, you will get a heavy portion of déjà vu while watching. The movie spiked an R for: underwater nude shower scene, multiple lobotomies, spikes to the eye, spikes to the heart, spikes to just about every part of the body imaginable, death by twine, barbed wire wrap, and especially for the de-souling of the villain.
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