Asylum?

So I was looking through this site...

http://www.feoamante.com/Movies/topten_scary.html

and came across the movie Asylum (#5 on the list). I had never heard of it, but it sounds interesting! Has anybody seen it? Is it worth seeing? Is it even on DVD?

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It sems interesting.... Dolls with Human Oragns inside...Hmmmmm......

Yeah, I looked it up on imdb and it seems as though it is actually 4 shorts all tied together by the last of the 4. Or something like that. So you've never seen it, DW?! I thought of everyone here, you and Paler would have ;)

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Ive not seen it... Paler May have..... Or maybe crocker

I can find out. I put together camera packages for them every single day, the AC's are always in there loading up or swapping **** out. I've never heard of it either except that it's on the board with everything else.

Ive not seen it... Paler May have..... Or maybe crocker

Of course I've seen it!! :D

It's not a bad little Portmanteau film (several stories framed by a linking tale).

Robert Powell plays a Doctor who is about to take over an insane asylum. The previous head had gone insane and was now an inmate. In order to 'prove his worth' as a psychaitrist Powell has to interview four inmates and hear their tale and deduce which one was the previous head of the Asylum.

There four rather excellent stories (one including the animated dolls..one featuring dismembered body parts coming back to life (which scared the sh*t out of me when I first saw it aged 13)

It has a pretty impressive cast of British thesps (Peter Cushing, Patricl Magee, barry Morse, Sylvia Sims, Richard Todd along with Britt Ekland, Herbert Lom and Charlotte Rampling. Not quite up to 'Dr Terror's House of Horrors' but definately worth a view if you've never seen it.

Mr Croker, Sir.
Just wanted to say I admire your restraint in not spoiling the ending for others by letting them know that the actual maniac turned out to be the character played by G******y B*****n.

Mr Croker, Sir.
Just wanted to say I admire your restraint in not spoiling the ending for others by letting them know that the actual maniac turned out to be the character played by G******y B*****n.

Well... I didn't mention him in the list of actors as I doubt that he's known at all outside the UK....of course anyone reading your post and then seeing the cast list will work out who 'G******y B*****n' is actually playing..and will know he's the nutter.... ;)

A part he spent his life playing to perfection.
Have I sinned in giving the game away?
I'm new to this site and would learn the ropes.

A part he spent his life playing to perfection.
Have I sinned in giving the game away?
I'm new to this site and would learn the ropes.

No sweat, Byron. To be honest I have a personal rule of thumb that if a film is over 25 years old people can't complain if you give away some plot point or 'spoiler'...for a more recent film then , yes..'spoiler warnings' should be posted but for a film this old I don't think it matters a great deal...


Geoffrey Bayldon will always be 'Catweazle' to me...that mean anything to you at all?

Geoffrey Bayldon will always be 'Catweazle' to me...that mean anything to you at all?[/QUOTE]


As you'll already have gathered via private message, you betcha.
But you got the spelling right!
Did you know GB was considered for the first Doctor Who, but turned it down because he was tired of playing old men?

Geoffrey Bayldon will always be 'Catweazle' to me...that mean anything to you at all?


As you'll already have gathered via private message, you betcha.
But you got the spelling right!
Did you know GB was considered for the first Doctor Who, but turned it down because he was tired of playing old men?


I have a friend called Rupert (he emigrated to South Africa a few years back) but his father is Ronald Hines (http://imdb.com/name/nm0385711/) the actor. He was in 'The Two Headed Spy' (1958) with Geoffrey Bayldon and it was Bayldon who suggested to Ronnie Hines that he call his new born son 'Rupert'...