Madhouse - The madness begins

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Movie
German title Madhouse - The madness begins
Original title Madhouse
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2004
length 91 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director William Butler
script William Butler
Aaron Strongoni
production Tom Fox
Mona C. Vasiloiu
Henry Winterstar
music Alberto Caruso
camera Viorel Sergovici
cut Stephen Semel
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Madhouse is a horror film directed by William Butler in 2004.

action

Clark Stevens does an internship at the Cunningham Hall Mental Hospital led by Dr. Franks is headed. Stevens is confronted with a series of murders in which the hospital staff fall victim. He investigates the incidents, a nurse who is sympathetic to him helps him.

Both start looking for the perpetrator. Stevens notices that the clinic's patients have to enjoy rather rough handling. They are sedated with drugs against their will. The head nurse doesn't shy away from using a stun gun.

The nurse first shows Clark around. She shows him all areas of the clinic, including the basement. In the basement there are patients behind thick steel doors. The nurse tells Clark that these people are dangerous and that without this preventive detention they would attack him.

Stevens meets Ben London, who is locked in cell number 44 in the basement. He also makes the acquaintance of a boy who looks like a ghost and often appears to him in the evening. Stevens finds the whole thing very strange and he decides to investigate without the help of the nurse. First he researched the man in cell 44, but it turned out that cell 44 was empty. At least it was in the files. But someone there spoke to him and repeatedly gave him useful tips in the case of the series of murders during their conversations.

After a very intimate night with his girlfriend, the nurse, Stevens finds out that the woman who works in a psychiatric hospital and helps him solve the murder case is herself suffering from schizophrenia. When he finds her medication for the disease, he immediately suspects her. He doesn't know what to do and goes back to the basement to ask Ben for advice. Ben repeats himself over and over to open Clark's eyes.

It later turns out that it was not the nurse who committed all these murders because of her schizophrenia. The police have many suspects, but none of them are the perpetrators.

The film has an abrupt twist where it becomes clear who the killer is and why. It is also clarified that Ben, the man in cell 44, is actually Clark himself, although the files say this cell is empty. The little boy who appears to Clark at night is also identified as Clark's childhood. Thus it becomes clear that Clark never actually existed, but was invented by the schizophrenic Ben to take revenge on the staff of the clinic, because he was interned there as a child and later fled and now comes back as an adult with the name Clark.

When the nurse understands that the murderer is Clark or Ben, at the end of the day there is a fight with an ax in which the nurse injures Ben on the shoulder, but Ben finally kills her. Before the fight, the nurse asks Clark to spare her, but Ben tells her that Clark never existed and his name is Ben.

At the end of another scene you see Clark / Ben in a suit going into another clinic and it becomes clear that he will kill there again.

Reviews

The "guest stars from the C-League" were mentioned in the lexicon of international films . The film only attracts attention through its “bloodthirsty effects”.

Abhishek Bandekar wrote on efilmcritic.com that the film met all the criteria of a bad film such as “cheap production”, “bad presentations” and “bad script”.

Remarks

The horror film, shot in Romania and Los Angeles, cost producers about $ 3 million.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Madhouse - The madness begins. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
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