Sanitarium (2013)

Wonderful Movie

Good concept, poorly executed.

Excellent, Without a doubt!!

An Exercise In Nonsense

Well, this movie tells 3 tales (which aren't connected aka pulp fiction aside that each involve the same mental asylum).3 totally different stories about the mentally ill. I wouldn't have watched this movie after seeing it has a 4.6 rating, but my uncle pushed me to, i do not regret.The downside is that each story is short, although is elaborated enough, i would have liked to watch each as a full movie instead, since they had a theme that is easy to elaborate on.it has some horror/suspense like atmosphere, but this movie isn't about that. Its just more to captivate the audience and it does a good job.It has some solid acting (specially the first and last), shame the third one is a retelling of the first one so, less points for that.The movie isn't bad by itself, but it could have been soo much better. Worth the watch though.

Though this film is not perfect and the overall through-line is pretty thin, the 4.5 rating I saw on IMDb before watching this is greatly underrated! The three individual stories are very subtly told with a soft sense of the intensity of human pain and how the mind deals with it. The directions is superbly intuitive and gentle with the subject matter. The Camera Shots supports the stories that need to be handles with care by keeping simple and just telling the story. If you are up for a story told in the tradition (although not as mastered) of Johnny Darko, this movies will hold your attention. It explores very deep set human pain and how that pain has manifested in the different characters of the three stories. Do not see this as a horror film - for the usual horror audience will probably be bored. The themes and the subject matter is perfect for the horror genre, but the intelligence and insight of the filmmaker is better described under an art house style presentation. Empty your mind, your preconceptions and watch the three stories with an open heart and you will walk away with a great insight into why people that hurt turn out the way they do.

With an incredible cast including Malcolm Mcdowell and Robert England I couldn't resist buying this film when I saw it. I'm a bit of a horror geek and I was excited to see two of my favourite actors in the same film. The film is terrible, no solid/interesting storyline, the characters are laughable, and the whole thing is just a bit childish. The first story was bizarre and needless, the second story was hilarious and pathetic and the third story is currently on in the background as I write this, I'm not gripped whatsoever. The story as a whole reminds me of when I sat my GCSE English exam and I struggled to make something up and ended up with a jumble of meaningless sub-stories all mashed into one. Not good.

This was a good movie. Not anything fantastic, but worth watching on a rainy day. It was very much like a Twilight zone, with 3 different stories, or the old 80's movies/TV shows Tales of the Crypt. The first story has John Glover, doing an excellent job of portraying the crazy artist struggling to hang onto reality. The second stars Lacey Chabert, playing a concerned school teacher worried about the welfare of one of her students who might be being abused by his father (played wonderfully by Chris Mulkey). The best story was the last, with Lou Diamond Phillips. He was really convincing as a college professor who becomes obsessed with the Mayans prediction of the end of the world in 2012. His obsession has him spending his family's' savings creating an underground bunker to protect them when the time comes. All three stories are about people who have lost touch with reality. They are institutionalized and then you get flashbacks of their lives before they were committed. Would recommend if you like this type of story.