{"id":15325,"date":"2022-11-19T21:00:36","date_gmt":"2022-11-20T02:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=15325"},"modified":"2022-11-19T16:30:45","modified_gmt":"2022-11-19T21:30:45","slug":"asylum-1972-roy-ward-baker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/15325","title":{"rendered":"Asylum (1972, Roy Ward Baker)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dr. Robert Powell (Ken Russell’s Mahler) arrives at the titular asylum to work for Dr. Starr, but is met by his assistant Patrick Magee instead. Magee says Starr is now a patient, locked safely upstairs with a trusty electrical system controlled by this button (I’ve heard that one<\/a> before), and challenges Mahler to correctly identify the doctor. Mahler heroically pads the film on the way upstairs, and the orderly (who I correctly\/immediately guessed as the doctor) lets him into each room, one at a time… yes, it’s a corny anthology horror, the same year Magee and Cushing and Dr. Orderly appeared in Tales from the Crypt<\/a><\/em>. 1972 would seem to be too late for this kinda thing, but British people such as Edgar Wright think all this is great.<\/p>\n

Bonnie (Barbara Parkins of The Mephisto Waltz<\/em> and A Taste of Evil<\/em>) isn’t even the murderer in her story – her boyfriend Richard Todd (the least famous person in House of the Long Shadows<\/em>) chops up his harpy wife (Sylvia Syms, appropriately of Victim<\/em>) and puts her in the basement freezer, but her butcher-paper-wrapped body parts reanimate, strangling him and attacking the unwitting Bonnie with the hatchet until the police arrive to blame the whole mess on her.<\/p>\n

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Tailor Bruno (Barry Morse of The Changeling<\/em>) was brought the Man in the White Suit<\/em> material by mysterious customer Peter Cushing, who planned on using dark magick to resurrect his dead son with the suit, but the tailor’s wife puts the suit on a mannequin which comes to life instead.<\/p>\n

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Barbara (young Charlotte Rampling, whoa) seems the most culpable so far. She starts by blaming Lucy (Britt Ekland of Wicker Man<\/em>) for murdering her brother (James Villiers of Mountains of the Moon<\/a><\/em>) and the nurse (Megs Jenkins of The Innocents<\/a><\/em>), but Lucy might be an invented personality of Barbara’s.<\/p>\n

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Dr. Byron (Herbert Lom of The Sect<\/a><\/em>) is at least a doctor of something – I don’t know how we’re supposed to imagine that the previous three were actually psychologists based on their stories. But Lom’s specialty is transmitting his consciousness into sub-Puppet Master<\/em> wind-up dolls. The new visitor must’ve inspired a rampage, since he and Dr. Orderly go on the attack.<\/p>\n

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Dr. Robert Powell (Ken Russell’s Mahler) arrives at the titular asylum to work for Dr. Starr, but is met by his assistant Patrick Magee instead. Magee says Starr is now a patient, locked safely upstairs with a trusty electrical system controlled by this button (I’ve heard that one before), and challenges Mahler to correctly identify […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[400,532,102,54,30,953,402,100],"class_list":["post-15325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1970s","tag-anthology-film","tag-britain","tag-horror","tag-identity","tag-peter-cushing","tag-puppets","tag-zombies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15325"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15358,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15325\/revisions\/15358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}