BelSports This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Donald Seymour This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Ava-Grace Willis Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

Scarlet The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

cyberdjweb I like horror movies, i enjoy it, but this... wow! it's too bad!honestly, i expect much more when I see the name, and the movie poster. I like the nice Sarah Roemer... so, i decided to watch itBut it so awful. The Script, the Acting... The Doctor is like a Joke, it don't scare anyone...I exoect a lot of horror. An asylum is too scary, i like it. It would be use to do a good movie, like Grave Encounters.All the story have a kind of nonsense...i don't know... it's bad..too bad.so, i think this an '80s movie in the XXI Century... AWFUL

tex-42 If you saw the late 90s movie, House on Haunted Hill, this movie will seem oddly familiar. An asylum is run by a doctor/mad man who tortures his patients until they revolt and kill him. As is often the case, the asylum is later turned into a college dorm. However, one wing has yet to be converted and thankfully remains filled with scary asylum stuff and the murderous ghost of the doctor.We then meet our characters, and it's like The Breakfast Club meets Nightmare on Elm Street. Every kids fits a cliché and has a back story that sets up how they will be killed. It will take you about five seconds to figure out who survives. As one would expect, the students are picked off one by one and we end up with our heroes v. the murderous ghost doctor. I won't spoil it for you as to what happens. Suffice it to say, it's completely expected.Asylum isn't a good movie, and its made worse by the fact that it feels like everyone from the writers to the cast just gave up at some point. The horrors here are not original, the storyline feels like someone literally fed a bunch of different horror movies into a typewriter and even the people we are supposed to root for aren't all that interesting. In short, use this film as a way to make yourself appreciate better movies.

Rathko Here we have the usual teen-horror shenanigans - six kids begin graduate school at a former asylum and find their troubled childhoods being manipulated and exploited by the ghost of a psychotic lobotomist. It features all the usual genre tropes - boarded up loony bin, thunder and lighting, painfully annoying college kids, flickering lights, hallucinations and hauntings. Though everyone involved does a professional job, there's nothing particularly new or original here and the clichés are presented with the typical WB gloss of perfect makeup and flattering mood lighting. The abandoned asylum is suitably creepy, though, as abandoned asylums always are, and Ellis is able to orchestrate a few good spook-house scares. The blood and gore, while graphic, are cartoonishly over-the-top and seem designed to elicit screams from teenage girls rather than serve the plot and, as a result, are oddly ineffective. The completely generic, paint-by-numbers storyline grows tedious pretty quickly, especially in a drawn out and sagging second act. The climactic showdown - all dark corridors, dreams and hallucinations, combined with a sado-masochistic, blade-wielding killer - seems to be inspired by Freddy Krueger and Pinhead in equal measure. An okay movie to play in the background with beer and pizza, and better than the usual direct-to-video dross, but nothing special.

cny_cd When I first saw the cover of this video, I had the sneaking suspicion that it might end up being one of those "so bad its good" movies that I absolutely love. Instead, it just ended up being bad. As far as a summary, take "Nightmare On Elm Street 3", add some even worse acting and production, add a killer that is one part Freddy Kruger, and one part Marcus Welby MD, and you've got this heaping pile of dung. In at least half the scenes in this movie, the lighting is so dark that its very difficult to even see what's going on. Fortunately for the viewer, by the halfway point you stop caring anyway, so perhaps this is a blessing in disguise. That was either a product of bad production, a very low budget, or possibly both. Also, there is this one cheesy song that is played a total of THREE times, including during the closing credits. And the song doesn't improve with multiple listens. Plot holes are everywhere in this film (too numerous to mention), and by the end you are just glad its over. Do yourself a favor, avoid this......!