Horrors about a psychiatric hospital: a nightmare in the square

Someone likes horror films about mysterious (or not so) bloody massacres, but someone prefers mysticism. Someone likes sincere trash or slasher, and many like comedies with a touch of noir.

About patients and maniacs

One of the most common directions of the genre is the horrors of a psychiatric hospital. In the most famous franchises about Freddy Kruger and Mike Myers, too, without this topic was not done. The action of the movie "Halloween 2" from the town where Meyers's sister lives (the debut of the famous Jamie Lee Curtis took place in the first part of the cycle), is transferred to a clinic for the mentally ill. The maniac himself spent many years in a similar institution, and the horrors of a psychiatric hospital for him are mere trifles, he is not afraid to return to almost native walls. The third part of "Nightmare on Elm Street" with the subtitle "Warriors of Sleep" practically all passes within the walls of the clinic for inadequate adolescents. There falls Christine, which Freddie's mule pursues in a dream. Together with her and her subconscious, he moves to peace for the time being chamber and begins to massacre the children. Begins real horrors about a psychiatric hospital! A fan of hats and striped jackets is very inventive in choosing a penalty for his victims. In the film, very young Patricia Arquette and young Lawrence Fishburne were shot.

About ghosts and not only

The heroes of "House of Night Ghosts" (among them the characters of Oscar-winning Geoffrey Rush and sexy Famke Janssen) found themselves in completely different circumstances. But they, too, could tell a lot about the "horrors of a psychiatric hospital." The hospital was closed for a long time, although the spirits of its former inhabitants, who suffered terrible tortures, did not leave these walls. It is they, who have become victims of the doctor-fanatics, will make confusion in the souls of the party members gathered for the birthday of the wife of the millionaire Stephen Price. True, for some reason the guests came not at all those whom they were waiting for ...

Horror films about psychiatric hospitals are Gotika Mathieu Kassovitz with Halle Berry as a doctor, who herself becomes a patient of the clinic in a strange way, and unsuspecting souls are haunted by her. And "Jacket" is the story of Starkes (Adrian Brody) returning from the Persian Gulf , charged with killing a policeman and being seized in a psychiatric hospital for examination. And the "Island of the Damned" Scorsese: in this film, the clinic is an entire island for mentally abnormal killers. In the roles of FBI agents, who were brought here by an urgent matter - Leonardo DiCaprio with Mark Ruffalo, the doctors played the eminent Sir Ben Kingsley and Max von Sydow.

The most horrible horror movie

"Boogeyman 2", one of the parts of the "Rebellion from Hell", several not very memorable films with a simple, but such "talking" name "Psychiatric" - and this is also horrors about a psychiatric hospital. The list would be incomplete, if not to mention a picture that is not attributed to horror films, but is regarded as a drama. But for many, "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" is the most horrible horror film on this topic (forgive readers for this tautology). The story, told by Milos Forman in this film, - about how monstrous can permissiveness. As an even more terrible shape it acquires, if it is inherent in a person whose profession is mercy itself. It's a nightmare in the box, if I may say so. Superb Jack Nicholson, who played the main character, in general, a harmless mutter, trying to hide behind the walls of the "psychiatric", in order to avoid prison. However, what will be his disappointment when he encounters dictate - far worse than any prison (after all, it's about sick people) - from the nurse Ratched. Both actors - and Nicholson, and Louise Fletcher - were awarded the Academy Film Awards. In total, the film received five of them - in the most important and prestigious nominations, for the second time in the history of cinematography.