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1) Asylum
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
A young psychiatrist interviews four inmates in a mental asylum to satisfy a requirement for employment. He hears stories about the revenge of a murdered wife, a tailor who makes a suit with some highly unusual qualities, a woman who questions her sanity when it appears that her brother is conspiring against her, and a man who builds tiny toy robots with lifelike human heads.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (176 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Homicidal (87 min., b&w): A girl returns to her childhood home, only to become involved in mystery and murder.
Strait-jacket (89 min., b&w): A mother returns to her daughter after a 20-year asylum stay on a double murder charge. Contains special features.
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
When U.S. Marshall Teddy Daniels arrives at the asylum for the criminally insane on Shutter Island, what starts as a routine investigation quickly takes a sinister turn. As the investigation unfolds and Daniels uncovers more shocking and terrifying truths about the island, he also learns there are some places that never let you go. Includes featurette.
Publisher
Kino Lorber, Inc
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Shows Camille Claudel, a protégé and mistress of Auguste Rodin, in 1915 when she was imprisoned in an insane asylum. Camille was also the sister of the Christian mystic poet Paul Claudel, the last of her family to pay her regular visits. Inspired by the correspondence between Paul and Camille, the movie focuses on Camille's struggle to maintain a sense of normalcy in a crowd of schizophrenics. Suffering from bouts of paranoia, she focuses on her...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Francie lives with a violent, alcoholic father and a manic depressive, suicidal mother. The pressure on Francie to grow up are immense. When his mother commits suicide and his friend, Joe, goes off to boarding school, Francie sinks ever deeper into paranoia thanks mainly to his nasty neighbour Mrs. Nugent. He begins to have a fantasy where he has visions of the Virgin Mary. After his father dies, Fancie's becomes more despondent, culminating in the...
7) Doom asylum
Publisher
Arrow Video
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (79 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (15 pages : illustrations ; 15 cm)
Language
English
Description
When a group of horny teens wind up on the grounds of a creepy abandoned asylum, they think they've found the perfect place to party. Little do they know that inside the building's crumbling walls lurks a freakishly deformed maniac, driven to madness by the tragic loss of his fiancee in a car accident. With an array of grisly surgical tools at his disposal, it's only a matter of time before the youngsters begin meeting various splattery ends at the...
8) Session 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Donning protective gear, the men of the Hazmat Elimination Co. venture into the eerily vast and vacant asylum that is filled with an evil and mysterious past. Rampant patient abuse, medieval medical procedure and rumors of demonic possession are some of the many dark secrets the hospital holds, but then so does each of the men.
9) Spellbound
Series
Criterion collection volume 136
Language
English
Formats
Description
Dr. Constance Peterson is a dedicated psychiatrist who puts all her passion into her work--until she falls in love with Dr. Edwardes. Unfortunately, it soon becomes clear that Edwardes is an impostor--an amnesiac--who may or may not be a cold-blooded murderer. Pursued by the police, Constance must decide whether to turn in her mysterious lover...or risk her life by trying to unlock the dark secrets in his mind.
10) The snake pit
Language
English
Formats
Description
Following an emotional collapse a woman is placed in a mental institution by her husband. The severity of her depression causes her sympathetic doctor to try electric shock, hydrotherapy, and drugs, along with psychoanalysis.
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (189 min.) : sound, black and white and color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Strait-jacket: Lucy Harbin goes berserk when she finds her husband in bed with another woman. Lucy axes the couple to death and spends twenty years in a mental institution for murder. After she is released, she moves in with family and hopes her nightmare is over -- but a string of ax murders suddenly start occurring in the neighborhood and police think Lucy has reverted to her old ways.
Berserk: Monica Rivers is the owner of a traveling circus plagued...
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