Insanitarium

Jul 15, 2008

1h 29m

★ 5.2

Overview

After he's institutionalized in order to cover for his sister, a young man encounters a doctor who is turning his patients into flesh-eating psychopaths.

Genres

Horror

Thriller

Insanitarium Trailers

Cast

Jack

Jesse Metcalfe

Lily

Kiele Sanchez

Dr. Gianetti

Peter Stormare

Dave

Kevin Sussman

Charles

Evan Parke

Nancy

Olivia Munn

Vera Downing

Carla Gallo

Hawthorne

Armin Shimerman

Heather

Lisa Arturo

Loomis

Kurt Caceres

Nurse Henderson

Molly Bryant

Jack's Mother

Dale Waddington

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6.5

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5.5

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4.8

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4.9

The Sanatorium

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5.6

The Road to Wellville

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7.7

Harvey

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The story of Elwood P. Dowd who makes friends with a spirit taking the form of a human-sized rabbit named Harvey that only he sees (and a few privileged others on occasion also.) After his sister tries to commit him to a mental institution, a comedy of errors ensues. Elwood and Harvey become the catalysts for a family mending its wounds and for romance blossoming in unexpected places.

7.4

The Necessities of Life

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7.0

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7.4

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6.1

Year of Enlightment

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6.9

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6.8

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4.5

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No overview available.

6.3

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Story of the dream of a lonely woman lying mentally ill in a sanatorium.

0.0

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From 1910-1972, Arkansas State law mandated that all victims of Tuberculosis (TB) be isolated in the State Sanatorium in Booneville, Arkansas. Some of them returned home free of their symptoms from Sanatorium Hill. Others died there, either of the disease or of the gruesome operations prescribed by the doctors. This documentary tells the story of patients who survived these morbid treatments, recovered from the disease of TB but unable to forget the pain, suffering and despair.

0.0

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No overview available.

0.0

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No overview available.