Sanitarium (2001)
A generation ago, Dr Max Warick was researching a mysterious experimental drug which was scientifically proven to cure certain types of madness. But as the most deranged test subjects miraculously regained their sanity, the control patients, who were given no drugs at all, suffered horrific consequences. Because no one could find the cause of such deadly side effects, the experiments were stopped. But now twenty years later, a new set of hospital officials are about to release the drug into the marketplace. And the only man who can prevent this terror from eating away at the masses has since traded in his lab coat for a straight jacket.
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good back-story, and good acting
It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.
This is a gorgeous movie made by a gorgeous spirit.
Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.
The fact that some people thought this film was good, shows how subjective the film experience can be.The fact that this happens with every film on the IMDb only supports that theory further.However, this film seems to go out of its way to reach new levels of badness.When I saw that the co-writer and co-director was also the film's composer, I knew I was in for a treat.Sure enough, the music consisted of two things, repeated over and over again for the entire movie. One was a piano arpeggiating a minor chord over and over, and the other was a pitiful attempt at some Bernard Herrmann marcato string lines, ala "Psycho".The rest of the movie, acting, directing, writing etc... was just as bad. The ending was incredible- "They're testing it again!" End of movie.
The artwork on the box that this DVD came in was infinitely more entertaining than the film (using that term loosely) itself.I feel as though the creators of this film had a very good Stephen King type idea, but miserably failed at making it into a watchable movie.Great story. Poor acting and poor filming, perhaps due to a poor budget? Maybe someone out there will see this movie and re-create it to it's full potential...
I got this movie after reading a review on digitallyobssessed.com and I have to say I was plesantly suprised - a low budget horror film that actually had a brain - this is not your average teens in a wood horror film - a lot of care has gone into the construction of the story line and it really keeps you hooked to the end - there are some nice sfx and a great atomsphere and bizzarley an acting turn by Uri Geller. Further unlike most low budget films these days it was actually shot on film rather than dv so it doesn't look like someone's home movie! Well worth a look - especially if you're after something a little bit fresher and more stimulating than a masked killer slicing and dicing people. Great score also!
Goodness where do i start. Should i first mention this film's absolute inability to be coherent or maybe i should lament upon some truly awful wooden acting(especially Uri Geller's 'star' turn). Did i mention that the special effects are so side splittingly ridiculous that for a minute i seriously considered that this film might have been mislabelled and was actually intending to be a comedy? The basic plot is an unoriginal tale of strange goings on in an asylum, a new drug is being tested out and its introduction has coincided with a few gruesome(and gratuitously paraded)deaths. The faults that i have already referred to, along with some truly awful dubbing and a complete lack of a set budget(they must have spent the money on Geller's fee)destroy what little chance this film did have of creating any sort of atmosphere.Save your money and leave this one for geeky medical students or hermits who would have no idea what a good film was if it slapped them in the face