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Accoridng to voters on Ranker, these are the best movies about hospitals and mental asylums that you need to see.
When the film was released in 1975, mental asylums were still heavily stigmatized. People termed mentally ill were often treated as second-rate citizens. But Jack Nicholson changed the way society viewed the mentally ill. His performance invites the audience to sympathize with him. The film ...
He was deeply troubled in his life and had to go to mental asylums (hospitals for mental illnesses) many times. This movie tries to capture the last days of his life through the eyes of Armand, the son of a postman who was close to Vincent. Before committing suicide, Vincent had given...
and dramatizations of mankind’s fundamental inability to conceive itself outside of power and difference. Contemporary footage of insane asylums and women being treated for hysteria confirms a truth that’s still with us, nearly a century later: that the horrors of the past are never so far ...
Asylums almost always make for a haunting setting in scary movies, and the backdrop of A Cure for Wellness is no exception. Here’s the gist: Lockhart (Dane DeHaan), a finance executive in New York City, is tasked with traveling to the Swiss Alps to bring back his company’s CEO, Pe...
“I think that we’re all mentally ill; those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better – and maybe not all that much better, after all” (King, 2011, p. 561). Stephen King, a prolific author who writes popular horror novels (some of which have been turned into fil...
Lesson Learned: Asylums are just as reliable pick-up spots as bars. Love stories have played out just about everywhere, so it was only a matter of time before someone decided to place a pair of soul mates in a mental institution for someGirl, Interrupted-meets-Romeo and Juliet-style action...
Horror Movies “I think that we’re all mentally ill; those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better-and maybe not that much better after all.” In “Why We Crave Horror Movies” the author Stephen King argues that everyone is a “potential lyncher.” I enjoy an occasio...