Asylum
by David R. Ellis
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Actor: Ellen Hollman, Jake Muxworthy, Mark Rolston, Sarah Roemer, Travis Van WinkleDirector: David R. Ellis
Brand: MGM
Writer: Ethan Lawrence
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language)
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.40:1
Running Time: 93 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-07-15
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
DVD Reviews of Asylum
DVD Review: Plese give US asylum from terrible films like Asylum
Summary: 1 Stars
True fans of the horror genre are a unique breed of film aficionados. So ready are we to dismiss the misdeeds of Hollywood's prior failings to deliver on its promise of fright supplier that we will enter without question into whatever new offering it has sent our way in hopes that this will be one of those few special moments of spine tingling success.
Upon viewing the cover of Asylum I was intrigued and mildly apprehensive, but I succumbed and shelled out my dollars in pursuit of my thrill fix. The cover, while unoriginal in it's stereotypically adorned requisite dripping blood and creepy hair-pasted-to-her-head teen girl against a white tile backdrop didn't sway me or even set off the appropriate alarm bells which would have alerted me that Asylum was not going to be the next The Ring or The Grudge or The Eye or even the moderately entertaining Shutter. No, in Asylum, contrary to what it's cover might convey, we are thrust headlong once again into slasher land.
Fooled again was I as I watched what can only be described as the biggest ripoff of the maniac slasher genre that has ever been conceived. It is one thing to pay homage to good horror examples, but it is something else entirely to so outwardly and obviously recreate scenes. In an enclosed shower cubicle scene, we are subjected to a literal replay of a scene from the opening of A Nightmare on Elm Street 5. In virtually every scene we are subjected to a maniacal lobotomist who can only be described at Krueger Lite with a bit of Dr. Giggles and The Dentist thrown in for good measure. He resides in an old, closed for decades crazy house, half of which has been converted into modern co-ed dorms for (what else) college freshmen. The makers of this wreck of a film threw us right in the middle of the impact by asking us to react as though it were 1987 at the height of Freddy mania and embrace their ice pick wielding doctor as the new hero of the thunderstorm heavy, young and dumb teen filled night. What they forgot was the slow building character development that was equal parts scare factor and campiness. They bombarded us with their demon doctor's presence and simply expected us to unquestioningly love their new villain in spite of the fact that we haven't been properly acquainted nor would we ever want to be. Big mistake. It doesn't matter how many different types of creepy contact lenses the filmmakers can ask their wannabe baddie to wear, (and there sure were a lot of lenses) you simply can't pull the wool over the eyes of the viewer and make them believe that the film you're making is anything other than completely unoriginal and pure fakery. The teens walk around robotically telling their life stories and frailties in one scene, and literally a moment later, here comes the good doctor to exploit all of that pain, asking his victims to freely give him their suffering. Even Pinhead from Hellraiser would cringe at such an obvious juvenile attempt at fear inducement. (would Pinhead be available to torture the makers of this movie? Somebody get me one of those boxes....)I must remember henceforth to recite the horror fan maxim each time I am faced with a choice anew in the slasher horror genre: There's no place like Elm Street.... There's no place like Elm Street...
Zero stars for Asylum.
Description of Asylum
Synopsis: Stars:Sarah Roemer, Travis Van WinkleItem Type: DVD Movie
Item Rating: R
Street Date: 07/15/08
Wide Screen: no
Director Cut: no
Special Edition: no
LanguageENGLISH
Foreign Film: no
Subtitlesno
Dubbed: no
Full Frame: no
Re-Release: no
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