Fifth Floor (1980)

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With a cast sure to please cult and horror fans alike, this pseudo-women's-prison film from director Hikmet Avedis is a good bet for genre followers. Pretty Dianne Hull plays Kelly McIntire, a disco bartender who is poisoned as part of a botched murder scheme and sent to a mental hospital. Once… More With a cast sure to please cult and horror fans alike, this pseudo-women's-prison film from director Hikmet Avedis is a good bet for genre followers. Pretty Dianne Hull plays Kelly McIntire, a disco bartender who is poisoned as part of a botched murder scheme and sent to a mental hospital. Once there, she is raped by evil orderly Carl (Bo Hopkins), witnesses murders and suicides, and eventually escapes only to be dragged screaming back to the horrors of the fifth floor. Cathey Paine, who played Leslie Van Houten in Helter Skelter, is among the many familiar faces, which also include such horror icons as Robert Englund and Michael Berryman. But the film belongs to Bo Hopkins, who is all smiling menace and who turns in a scary performance and gives the film what force it has, as screenwriter Meyer Dolinsky puts Hull through some rather unconvincing maneuvers in the lead. Still, although there are a number of lapses in logic, they don't detract from the frightening premise that almost any statement or action could be construed as a sign of dementia in the proper circumstances. ~ Robert Firsching, Rovi

Rating, Runtime: R, 1 hr. 30 min.
Directed By: Howard Hikmet Avedis
Genres: Mystery & Suspense, Horror

On DVD: Aug 1, 1991

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Cast

            Bo Hopkins as Carl

            Diane Hull as Kelly McIntire

            Patti D'Arbanville as Cathy Burke

            Sharon Farrell as Melanie

            Mel Ferrer as Dr. Sidney Coleman

            Julie Adams as Nurse Hannelord

            John David Carson as Ronnie Denton

            Patti Brooks as Disco Singer

            Robert Englund as Benny

            Greg Barnett as Deputy Sheriff

            Michael Berryman as Mental Patient

            Earl Boen as Phil

            Chuck Boyd as Douglas Crawford

            Robert Herron as Sheriff

            Betty Kean as Sophy

            M.G. Kelly as Hal

            Milt [Lewis] Kogan as Dr. Shaw

            Alice Nunn as Emma

            Mary Ellen O'Neill as Mental Patient

            Grant Owens as Jerry

            Udana Power
            
            Marlene Schmidt as Night Nurse

            Tracey Walter as Mental Patient

            Anthony James as Derrick

            Duane Tucker as Psych Tech
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