Asylum (R.D. Laing's Asylum)
You have nothing to lose but your mind.
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 35 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: July 6, 2004
- Originally Released: 1972
- Label: Kino Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Directed by | Peter Robinson | |
Edited by | Richard W. Adams | |
Cinematography by | Richard W. Adams | |
Produced by | Peter Robinson |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3.5/4 --
One of the best anthology horror films ever made
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ESplatter
Rating: 2.5/4 --
not as good as monster club, but still quite interesting
sbs.is
Rating: 4.5/5 --
A great little gothic horror anthology. Track this one down if you can!
eFilmCritic.com
One of Amicus's best
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Backseat Mafia
Rating: 2.5/4 --
Asylum tries telling similar tales (twice) and comes up pathetically short in the scare department.
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Slant Magazine
Rating: 2/4 --
If nothing else, a horror movie about cabbages could help Rosenberg work through his obsession and save a lot of analyst's fees.
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Chicago Sun-Times
Robert (Psycho) Bloch's script is tightly and intelligently written, but at times he tends towards predictability.
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Los Angeles Free Press
Product Description:
In the 1950s and '60s, controversial Scottish psychiatrist R.D. Laing enacted a radical new therapy for the mentally ill. Setting up a series of "safe houses" where schizophrenics could live communally and without medication in a nurturing home environment, Laing promoted freedom, responsibility, and compassion as methods to foster his patients' mental healing. Filmmaker Peter Robinson chronicled Laing's revolutionary ideas in the astonishing 1971 documentary ASYLUM, recording his seven-week stay at the Archway Community safe house in London in an honest style that both humanized the face of madness and set the standard for cinema verite filmmaking.
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