Horrors about a psychiatric hospital: a nightmare in a square
Someone likes horror films about mysterious (or not so) bloody massacres, and someone prefers mysticism. Someone likes sincere trash or slasher, and many like comedies with a touch of noir.
One of the most common directions of the genre ishorrors about 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 film "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 his own 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. Kristin gets there, which Freddie 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. The film starred quite young Patricia Arquette and young Lawrence Fishburn.
Heroes of "House of Night Ghosts" (among whichcharacters Oscar-winning Jeffrey Rush and sexy Famke Janssen) were in very 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 agonies, did not leave these walls. It is they, who have become victims of the doctor-fanatics, will make confusion in the souls of the participants of the party, 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 areand Gotika Mathieu Kassovitz with Halle Berry as a doctor, who herself is strangely becoming a patient of the clinic, and her unsettled souls are haunted by her. And "Jacket" - the story of returning from the Persian Gulf Starks (Adrian Brody), charged with the murder of a policeman and sealed in a psychiatric hospital for examination. And the "Island of the Damned" Scorsese: in this film, the hospital 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 were the eminent Sir Ben Kingsley and Max von Sydow.
"Boogeyman 2, one of the parts of the" Risen from Hell,a few not very memorable films with a simple, but such a "talking" name "Psychiatric" - and this is also a horror 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 story 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, an innocent 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.
