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Bookmark this pageAsylum (1972)
Director: Roy Ward Baker
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From Time Out Film Guide
The fourth Amicus horror omnibus, comprising four Robert Bloch stories, set in an asylum and boasting a fairly ingenious framing device whereby the glowering director (Magee) sets a young psychiatrist applying for a job (Powell) the task of discovering which of the patients is a former colleague gone mad. Cheerfully gruesome (especially the last tale involving Lom and a murderous manikin), but done without much wit or style.Author: TM
Cast & crew
Director: Roy Ward Baker
Producer: Max J Rosenberg, Milton Subotsky
Cast: Patrick Magee, Robert Powell, Geoffrey Bayldon, Barbara Parkins, Peter Cushing, Barry Morse, Britt Ekland, Charlotte Rampling, Herbert Lom, Sylvia Syms full cast
Genre(s): Horror
Duration: 88 mins
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