Movies Set in Asylums

Nell Bowen, the protégé of Lord Mortimer, wants to help change the conditions of notorious St. Mary's of Bethlehem Asylum (Bedlam). Though she tries to reform Bedlam, the cruel Master Sims who runs it has her committed there, but ultimately, it's the lunatics who've taken over the asylum.

A young woman is plagued by nightmares of her asylum-patient mother. Upon returning to her family home, the nightmares become real when she sees a strange woman pacing the halls.

Patients and staff of an isolated mental hospital are being killed off by a hooded maniac who stalks the halls.

L'adolescente Susan Shelley viene rilasciata da un manicomio dove è stata rinchiusa dopo lo shock subito per la morte della sua affascinante madre.

On her way home to California from a stay at a Swiss mental institution after a traumatic rape seven years earlier, twenty-year-old Susan Wilcox realizes that someone is deliberately trying to drive her insane. Written by Jimmy Sangster.

Un ospedale di riabilitazione nelle campagne italiane che offre cure a donne affette da vari disturbi psicologici è perseguitato da un misterioso killer incappucciato.

Tania, an asylum patient, is under the doctor's care while suffering raging behavioral effects that follow the death of her exorcised mother.

A young woman is brought to an asylum to receive special treatment from a mysterious doctor. Dr. Spector does more than just run the hospital -- he offers his patients as sacrifices to Satan.

Lynn Hart è una giovane donna disturbata che scappa da un ospedale psichiatrico dove è stata arrestata per aver ucciso il padre violento che l'ha violentata.

A nymphomaniac goes to a sanitarium in hopes of being cured; it turns out the sanitarium is a front for a Satanic cult luring young women into a web of madness, torture, and sex... But mostly just sex.

Three inmates in an asylum tell their stories. Story 1, a husband and wife discover they should be careful what they wish for. Story 2, a naked female ghost gets revenge from her watery grave. Story 3, a dead prostitute returns as a ghost.

Years after being traumatized by witnessing the drowning deaths of her beloved father and stepmother as a child, a wealthy young woman is released from a sanitarium and returns to the remote country estate where she grew up. Shortly afterwards, her psychiatrist, her estranged, greedy brother, and his beautiful but immoral fiance converge on the estate and a series of grisly murders begins.

A disturbed telepathic man is unable to fully control his ability to transmit his dreams and visions into the minds of the people around him, or even influence reality. A female therapist tries to help him, but his mother gets in the way.

Lone survivor Cynthia Weston of the Unity Fields cult's mass suicide wakes from a thirteen-year coma in a psychiatric ward, where other patients suddenly start dying under mysterious and gruesome circumstances.

A young psychiatrist tries to help a young woman in an asylum who has been accused of having killed a teenage girl. But when she escapes and he goes after her, he finds himself involved in a mystery far greater than simply a woman thought to be insane. And the more he finds out about her, and her relationship to a mother who no longer will have anything to do with her, the more he finds that he is dealing with something terribly unnatural... which leads to a final resolution and revelation that makes the film not only unpredictable, but haunting as well.

Un medico rinnegato viene ucciso e sepolto con i suoi diabolici esperimenti. Venti anni dopo, l'arrivo di una donna misteriosa apre il sigillo del "Dead Pit" liberando il malvagio dottore.

A serial killer gets sent to a mental institution, but as his insidious presence cause the doctors and orderlies to receive strange visions, his psychiatrist tries to find out his true identity.

10 years ago the perverse Dr. Russell couldn't resist the beauty of a young patient in his mental clinic and raped her one night. When she plunged herself from the roof shortly after, he described it as consequence of her heavy depressions. Now the same urge overcomes him with his new patient Sandy. He doesn't know that she's the daughter of his previous victim and that she's come for revenge.

Lisa is running around in a labyrinth inhabited by cannibal lunatics. Or is it a dream? Or is it a dream that it is a dream? Or...?

Una psicologa vuole capire il pensiero e motivazione di un serial killer confessato, che ha trascorso gli ultimi cinque anni in un ospedale psichiatrico a causa del suo stato.

A madman terrorizes a female psychologist when they are accidently locked up in an abandoned asylum.

Tabloid reporter Samantha (Sara Downing, "Never Been Kissed") goes undercover at the Brookdale Institute to break a story about celebrity drug addicts, but she soon discovers that the real scoop is far more terrifying.

Un giovane psichiatra indaga sulla morte di un'invermiera e scopre gli orribili segreti nascosti dietro la facciata della casa di cura in cui lavora.

A woman suffers a traumatic incident as a young girl, whereas she doesn't know which reality is the real one.

A medical student is assigned to a psychiatric patient to discover the truth about a brutal murder, but he instead rants about danger in the outside world. The student dismisses his claims as paranoia - until someone begins.