Asylum (1972)

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Movie
German title Asylum
Original title Asylum
Country of production Great Britain
original language English
Publishing year 1972
length 88 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Roy Ward Baker
script Robert Bloch
production Max Rosenberg
Milton Subotsky
Amicus Productions
music Douglas Gamley
camera Denys N. Coop
cut Peter Tanner
occupation

Asylum (German alternative title: Asylum - Maze of Terror ) is a British horror film by Roy Ward Baker released in 1972 . It is based on the stories Frozen Fear , The Weird Taylor , Lucy Comes to Stay and Mannequins of Horror by Robert Bloch .

action

The young doctor Dr. Martin applied to be the head of a psychiatric clinic . His future deputy Dr. Rutherford, who was injured by Dr. Sitting rigidly in a wheelchair, however, gives him a task beforehand to find out whether Martin is suitable for the job. He lets him show him the patients on the upper floor, among whom the former head of the institution, Dr. B. Rigid, should be located. These patients are all very serious cases that Reynolds, who also has his office upstairs, is supposed to show him:

  • Bonnie, a young woman, encouraged her lover to murder his unloved, unwilling to divorce wife. He slew and dismembered the woman, but her body parts came to life of their own, strangled him and made his lover disfigure her pretty face with an ax.
  • Bruno, a tailor, was supposed to make a suit out of some strange material for the creepy Mr. Smith. When he was about to deliver the finished suit, it turned out that a dead man should be resuscitated with it. Smith was unable to pay for the suit immediately and died in an argument about it. Back home, the tailor's wife pulled the suit over a dressmaker's dummy, which then came to life, infected the house and killed the woman, for which the tailor was locked in the institution.
  • Barbara, a young, reserved woman, had a less inhibited sister (Lucy) who, after a stay in the clinic, joked all of the people in her way out of her way. The sister only imagined her, but her murders of her brother and a nurse were real.
  • Dr. Byron, physicist, neurologist and orthopedic specialist, tinkers in his room on little robots with a fleshly inner workings that he wants to control by means of concentration.

While Dr. Martin back with Dr. Rutherford is, can Dr. Byron piloting a miniature model of himself and getting it into the dining elevator. During the conversation, the creature can grab a scalpel and stabs Dr. Rutherford, while he is still saying that the miniature models are dangerous. Dr. Martin grabs the robot and steps on it so that bowels come out. At the same time, Dr. Byron himself shredded. Dr. Martin assumes that this is Dr. Was rigid. He wants to call the police from Reynolds' office and discovers a body strangled two days earlier - Max Reynolds. The man he thought was a male nurse is Dr. Rigid. He strangles Dr. Martin with a stethoscope.

At the end of the film, a new applicant rings the doorbell at the clinic and Dr. Rigidly opens.

More movies

Asylum is based on Freddie Francis ' films The Death Cards of Dr. Schreck (1965) and The Torture Garden of Dr. Diabolo (1967) and Peter Duffels Totentanz der Vampire (1970) the fourth part of the horror episode series by Amicus Productions . Four more films followed in the following years:

Reviews

The lexicon of the international film praised the episodes "without bloody showmanship", they are told rather as "subtle, easily digestible horror". On the whole it is a "witty, quite entertaining" horror film.

prisma describes Asylum as a rather silent, profound film with a coherent script in which the horror arises partly from fantastic , partly from psychologically explainable stories.

Awards

At the 1973 Berlinale , Roy Ward Baker was awarded an Interfilm and an OCIC prize by the International Forum for Young Films .

German theatrical version

The German theatrical version of Asylum was cut by about 14 minutes of plot scenes in order to streamline the plot. All video cassettes published in German-speaking countries contained this version. The film will also be broadcast in this version on German television, as the removed scenes were not dubbed in German.

Publications

After some label Asylum on VHS were published in the edited version, came on July 4, 2007, a bootleg - DVD and the uncut version under the title maze of terror out. The previously removed scenes were inserted in the original English language. On March 27, 2008 the film was released on DVD by the EMS label in the uncut, restored version as part of the Der-phantastische-Film series.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for Asylum . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , November 2006 (PDF; test number: 51 822 DVD).
  2. ^ Asylum in the online film database
  3. ↑ Asylum. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  4. ↑ Maze of Terror on prisma-online.de
  5. ↑ Comparison between the cut German theatrical version and the uncut version of Asylum on Schnittberichte.com
  6. ↑ Entry on the uncut bootleg DVD in the online film database
  7. ↑ Entry on the uncut DVD from EMS in the online film database