Asylum

Asylum (also known as House of Crazies in subsequent US releases) is a 1972 British horror film made by the Amicus Productions film company. Directed by Roy Ward Baker, produced by Milton Subotsky, and scripted by Robert Bloch (who adapted four of his own short stories for the screenplay), it is a horror portmanteau film, one of several which Amicus made during the 1960s to 1970s: Dr Terror's House of Horrors: Torture Garden; Tales from the Crypt... more

Asylum (also known as House of Crazies in subsequent US releases) is a 1972 British horror film made by the Amicus Productions film company. Directed by Roy Ward Baker, produced by Milton Subotsky, and scripted by Robert Bloch (who adapted four of his own short stories for the screenplay), it is a horror portmanteau film, one of several which Amicus made during the 1960s to 1970s: Dr Terror's House of Horrors: Torture Garden; Tales from the Crypt; The House That Dripped Blood; The Vault of Horror; From Beyond the Grave. (Tales That Witness Madness was a similar film from a different company.) The film opens with Dr Martin (Robert Powell) arriving at a secluded asylum "for the incurably insane" located in an unidentified area of rural Britain. He makes his way to the office of the institution's manager, the wheelchair-bound and authoritarian Dr Lionel Rutherford (Patrick Magee). Rutherford explains that he owes his current incapacitation to an attack by an inmate ("Never turn your back... less