Best Asylum Horror Movies & Films Subgenre - Mental Hospital Movies
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Top 21 must-see best asylum horror movies from asylum horror movies, including The Silence of the Lambs, Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum, Shutter Island, Santa Sangre, Alive, Unsane, The Ninth Configuration, Severance, Stonehearst Asylum, and Session 9 ranked and rated by score.
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The Silence of the Lambs is Streaming on Netflix, Hulu, Tubi
Plot / Synopsis: A young F.B.I. cadet must confide in an incarcerated and manipulative killer to receive his help on catching another serial killer who skins his victims.
Tagline: Dr. Hannibal Lecter. Brilliant. Cunning. Psychotic. In his mind lies the clue to a ruthless killer. - Clarice Starling, FBI. Brilliant. Vulnerable. Alone. She must trust him to stop the killer...
Director: Jonathan Demme Stars: Jodie Foster, Lawrence A. Bonney, Kasi Lemmons, Lawrence T. Wrentz, Scott Glenn
Plot / Synopsis: An internet broadcaster recruits a handful of people for their 'experience the horror' show at Gonjiam. They are to explore the haunted asylum and stream it live on the show. To attract more viewers, the show hosts play tricks on the guests, but things start to get out of hand when they are inside the place, where tortured souls...
Plot / Synopsis: In 1954, a U.S. marshal investigates the disappearance of a murderess who escaped from a hospital for the criminally insane.Tagline: Someone is missing...
Director: Martin Scorsese Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley, Max von Sydow, Michelle Williams
Plot / Synopsis: A young man -- starving, nearly catatonic and barely responsive -- is confined in a sanitarium. He is taken on a field trip along with other residents to the city's red-light district. There, he encounters by chance a woman from his past, triggering a series of flashbacks. We see that he was traumatized as a child, when he and...
Director: Alejandro Jodorowsky Stars: Axel Jodorowsky, Blanca Guerra, Guy Stockwell, Thelma Tixou, Sabrina Dennison
Plot / Synopsis: Without warning, people in the streets of Seoul become extremely violent, cannibalistic, attacking passersby, behaving like zombies. A young man alone in his parents' 4th floor apartment becomes spectator to all this. There're no groceries left in the apartment. He foolishly opens the door and a neighbor forces himself in. He's infected but is finally forced out. TV informs...
Director: Il Cho Stars: Ah-In Yoo, Park Shin-Hye, Bae-soo Jeon, Hyun-Wook Lee, Hye-Won Oh
Plot / Synopsis: A young woman is involuntarily committed to a mental institution where she is confronted by her greatest fear--but is it real or is it a product of her delusion?...
Director: Steven Soderbergh Stars: Joshua Leonard, Claire Foy, Sarah Stiles, Marc Kudisch, Amy Irving
Plot / Synopsis: A new commanding officer arrives at a remote castle serving as an insane asylum for mentally ill and A.W.O.L. U.S. soldiers where he attempts to rehabilitate them by allowing them to live out their crazy fantasies while combatting his own long-suppressed insanity.Tagline: How Do You Fight A War Called Madness?...
Director: William Peter Blatty Stars: Stacy Keach, Scott Wilson, Jason Miller, Ed Flanders, Neville Brand
Plot / Synopsis: During a team-building retreat in the mountains a group of sales representatives are hunted down one by one.Tagline: Another bloody office outing...
Director: Christopher Smith Stars: Toby Stephens, Claudie Blakley, Andy Nyman, Babou Ceesay, Tim McInnerny
Plot / Synopsis: An Oxford graduate takes up a job in a mental asylum, only to discover that the "revolutionary" new treatments are inhumane and that there is more going on than meets the eye.Tagline: No one is what they seem...
Director: Brad Anderson Stars: Kate Beckinsale, Jim Sturgess, David Thewlis, Brendan Gleeson, Ben Kingsley
Plot / Synopsis: Tensions rise within an asbestos cleaning crew as they work in an abandoned mental hospital with a horrific past that seems to be coming back.Tagline: Fear Is A Place...
Director: Brad Anderson Stars: David Caruso, Stephen Gevedon, Paul Guilfoyle, Josh Lucas, Peter Mullan
Plot / Synopsis: The thirty and something years old psychiatrist Dr. Samantha Goodman has an incurable brain tumor that has just started to grow...
Tagline: She spent years getting into the mind of a monster... Now he's getting into hers...
Director: Paul Fox Stars: Kate Greenhouse, Bruce McFee, Jeff Seymour, David Calderisi, Trevor Hayes
Plot / Synopsis: A female psychologist wants to understand the minds of a confessed serial killer who spent the last five years in a mental hospital because of his state.Tagline: The Ugly - It's not a pretty picture!...
Director: Scott Reynolds Stars: Paolo Rotondo, Paul Glover, Chris Graham, Darien Takle, Rebecca Hobbs
Plot / Synopsis: Anchor Bay and Chris Sparling's The Atticus Institute (2015) movie looks really good or at least interesting. I saw the trailer and found that it really peaked my interests. It is always great to see when a movie mixes demons, the paranormal and government conspiracies/experiments together. The military try to weaponize these supernatural abilities but we all know how that...
Director: Chris Sparling Stars: Rya Kihlstedt, William Mapother, Sharon Maughan, Harry Groener, John Rubinstein
Plot / Synopsis: A group of college students gets lost in a storm during their snowmobiling trip and takes shelter in an abandoned sanitarium which, unbeknown to them, is home to three deformed cannibals.
Tagline: These hillbillies are going crazy...
Director: Declan O'Brien Stars: Jennifer Pudavick, Tenika Davis, Kaitlyn Leeb, Terra Vnesa, Ali Tataryn
Plot / Synopsis: For their ghost hunting reality show, a production crew locks themselves inside an abandoned mental hospital that's supposedly haunted - and it might prove to be all too true.Tagline: They were searching for proof... they found it...
Directors: Colin Minihan, Stuart Ortiz, The Vicious Brothers Stars: Ben Wilkinson, Sean Rogerson, Ashleigh Gryzko, Merwin Mondesir, Juan Riedinger
