Tag Archives: mental institution

Alien Abduction

IMDB Rating: 2.20
340 votes

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Written and directed by Eric Forsberg, this unabashedly low-budget sci-fi flick has a young woman being abducted by aliens on a camping trip—and then going through an even harder ordeal when she wakes up in a brutal military hospital for the rehabilitation of abductees.
Actors
JeanMegan Lee Ethridge
Rescue WorkerMark Elias
ToddGriff Furst
Also posted in 2005, Sci-Fi | Comments (0)

The Ring Two

IMDB Rating: 5.10
15562 votes

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Six months after encountering Samara and her killer video tape, Rachel Keller and her son Aiden leave the city to live in a small rural town where they think they'll be safe. Soon after they arrive, however, Rachel hears about a college student who died nearby in circumstances similar to Samara's past victims. Now it appears that Aiden's life is in danger from Samara once more, and Rachel must investigate the little girl's past if she wants to save her son.
Actors
Rachel KellerNaomi Watts
Max RourkeSimon Baker
Aidan KellerDavid Dorfman
Also posted in 2005, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller | Comments (3)

Madhouse

IMDB Rating: 5.40
1304 votes

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The psychiatric intern Clark Stevens (Joshua Leonanrd) comes to Cunningham Hall, a mental healthy facility administrated by Dr. Franks (Lance Henriksen), for a training period before his graduation in medical college. He gets close to the resident Sara (Jordan Ladd) and to Ben London, a dangerous patient lodged in cell 44 in the basement of the clinic. Clark becomes intrigued with a boy, who seems to be a ghost, and finds that Dr. Franks does not use real medication in the patients. A further investigation shows hidden dark secrets in the clinic.
Actors
Clark StevensJoshua Leonard
SaraJordan Ladd
AliceNatasha Lyonne
Also posted in 2004, Horror, Thriller | Comments (0)

Hellboy

IMDB Rating: 6.60
27879 votes

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In the final days of World War II, the Nazis attempt to use black magic to aid their dying cause. The Allies raid the camp where the ceremony is taking place, but not before a demon - Hellboy - has already been conjured. Joining the Allied forces, Hellboy eventually grows to adulthood, serving the cause of good rather than evil.
Actors
HellboyRon Perlman
Trevor 'Broom' BruttenholmJohn Hurt
Liz ShermanSelma Blair
Also posted in 2004, Action, Adventure, Comedy, High IMDB rating, Horror, Sci-Fi | Comments (3)

The Butterfly Effect

IMDB Rating: 7.70
49477 votes

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Evan Treborn grows up in a small town with his single working mom and his friends. He suffers from memory blackouts where he suddenly finds himself somewhere else, confused. Evans' friends and mom hardly believe him, thinking he makes it up just to get out of trouble, something bad always seems to happen during these blackouts. As Evan grows up he has less of these blackouts until he seems to have recovered. Since the age of seven he has written a diary of his blackout moments so he can remember what happens. One day at college he starts to read one of his old diaries, and suddenly a flashback hits him like a brick!
Actors
Evan TrebornAshton Kutcher
Andrea TrebornMelora Walters
Kayleigh MillerAmy Smart
Also posted in 2004, Drama, High IMDB rating, Sci-Fi, Thriller | Comments (6)

Igby Goes Down

IMDB Rating: 7.10
12240 votes

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Igby Slocumb, a rebellious and sarcastic seventeen year-old boy, is at war with the oppressive world of his East Coast "old money" family. With a schizophrenic father, a self-absorbed, distant mother, and a shark-like young Republican big brother, Igby figures there must be a better life out there, and he sets out to find it. After happily flunking out of several Prep Schools, Igby escapes into the bohemian underworld of Manhattan. His darkly comic trip—shared by a deviant cast of characters, including his terminally bored, part-time lover Sookie, his Godfather's trophy mistress Rachel, and smack-dealing performance artists Russel—veers from bizarre to tragic in Igby's ultimately noble attempt to keep himself from "going down."
Actors
Jason 'Igby' Slocumb, Jr.Kieran Culkin
Sookie SappersteinClaire Danes
D.H. BanesJeff Goldblum
Also posted in 2002, Comedy, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

The Ring

IMDB Rating: 7.30
48527 votes

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Rachel Keller is a journalist investigating a videotape that may have killed four teenagers (including her niece). There is an urban legend about this tape: the viewer will die seven days after watching it. If the legend is correct, Rachel will have to run against time to save her son's and her own life.
Actors
Rachel KellerNaomi Watts
Noah ClayMartin Henderson
Aidan KellerDavid Dorfman
Also posted in 2002, Drama, High IMDB rating, Horror, Mystery, Thriller | Comments (14)

Spider

IMDB Rating: 6.80
8740 votes

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Dennis Clegg is in his thirties and lives in a halfway house for the mentally ill in London. Dennis, nicknamed "Spider" by his mother has been institutionalized with acute schizophrenia for some 20 years. He has never truly recovered, however, and as the story progresses we vicariously experience his increasingly fragile grip on reality.
Actors
Dennis ('Spider') ClegRalph Fiennes
Yvonne/Mrs. ClegMiranda Richardson
Bill ClegGabriel Byrne
Also posted in 2002, Drama, High IMDB rating, Mystery, Thriller | Comments (0)

Angel’s Dance

IMDB Rating: 5.80
515 votes

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Tony wants to be a hitman for the Mafia, but first he has to learn from a master. Enter Stevie California-cool, eats veggie burgers and quotes Neitzche. Tony may not agree with Stevie's style, but he has to complete his training so he can go back and kill the Mafia's accountant, who's about to turn state's evidence. His final test: kill whoever is randomly picked out of the yellow pages. His target: Angel Chaste. Angel works the graveyard shift at a mortuary. She thinks a doll is her baby. Her mother left when she was little. Basically, Angel has PROBLEMS. When Tony, Angel and Stevie collide, it will change all of their lives.
Actors
Stevie 'The Rose' RoselliniJames Belushi
Angelica ChasteSheryl Lee
Tony GrecoKyle Chandler
Also posted in 1999, Action, Comedy | Comments (0)

House on Haunted Hill

IMDB Rating: 5.10
14042 votes

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When an eccentric millionaire offer a group of opposites $1,000,000 to spend the night in a so called "Haunted House" with a murderous past, they figure it is a quick way to get quick money and leave. All of them are sure it is some made up story just to mess with their heads a little and test their courage. But, once they stay in the house they start to think about the mistake they made in coming there when mysterious things start to happen.
Actors
Stephen H. PriceGeoffrey Rush
Evelyn Stockard-PriceFamke Janssen
Eddie BakerTaye Diggs
Also posted in 1999, Horror, Thriller | Comments (8)