Armin Shimerman, Carla Gallo, Dale Waddington Horowitz, Jesse Metcalfe, Kurt Caceres ...( see more  see more... ) , Lisa Arturo , Molly Bryant , Olivia Munn , Peter Stormare

Metcalfe will play a man who pretends to be crazy in order to save his sister (Sanchez) from being involuntarily hospitalized. Once inside the institute, the siblings discover that a doctor (Stormare)...( read more  read more... ) is using his patients like lab rats, forcing them to take a drug that turns them into flesh-eating psychopaths.

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Directed by: Jeff Buhler

Release Date: January 1, 2008

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DVD Release Date: July 15, 2008

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  • October 22, 2008
    Nothing like a good mental hospital movie gone zombie halfway through. Peter Stormare always adds bonus points, as does forced one-liners.
  • August 25, 2008
    So this is apparently the guy writing "Midnight Meat Train" which is supposed to be THE next big horror movie. Well the last time there was hype of this tone, it came in the form of Eli Roth and Hostel- so I'm aware of false prophets.

    To describe the movie quickly, it's like a ...( read more)z-budget crew does better than they should, but considering they're not even coloring that corn syrup right, there's not much to expect of them. There's no story here; the doctor character is so vapid and like a character exercise than a real character. The plot's dumb - guy gets himself committed so he can save his sister from the hospital's secret experiments which is turning the residents into zombieish-wannabes. It's "The Crazies" but set entirely in an asylum, which would sound AWESOME, but the one scene in Nightmare on Elm Street (2 I think it was or maybe 3) where the madmen rape Freddy's mother to create him packs more punch than this whole film.

    It's a nice try, but inconsequential because its script sucks. You can't have a totally serious take on this plotline in modern horror - it's just laughable to make something so artificial seem important with this sort of action-oriented directing approach.

    All bitching done, this is better than 'Cabin Fever' so maybe MMT has hope yet if the Buhlan guy has gotten better at his form and the director can make the actors take his stuff seriously (if he insists on continuing with the serious, everything needs tightening ESPECIALLY his characterizations... this is pathetic and akin to what a "madlibs horror bot" would generate, cept it's not at all amusing, and it certainly doesn't scare.

    People should only be seeing this years and years from now IF and BECAUSE of what the director has done since, like how I look back on Romero's "The Crazies" and can see the talent percolating but not yet peaking. Thing is though - if you pit this movie directly against "The Crazies" from which it derives, Insanitarium's clunky melodrama cannot stand up to the simple fear drama of the focal group in "The Crazies". There are a few promising cinematography shots in the movie, and the director does better than most with production effects (except for the blood color problems).

    High body count, but low logic. Sometimes that can be a great combo. Most of the time, like now, it is just as crappy and thrill-less as it sounds.
  • August 7, 2008
    It's aptly named. Sadly, there's not much genuinely entertaining of frightening material amidst all the craziness.
  • July 25, 2008
    Lots of fun! Insanitarium attempts to explain the beginnings of a zombie invasion - the medical experiment gone wrong that we never have the chance to witness. It's a bit talky at first, but once the ball gets rolling Insanitarium turns into a bloody good time! Check this one ...( read more)out for a treat.
  • July 24, 2008
    Well, well, well, what to say about this. Well the story wasn't as bad, for a scary/bloody movie. Actually kinda one of the better I must admit. The Cast was decent but good Lordy the acting was aweful. That actually made it worst...too bad, I actually liked it.
  • November 1, 2009
    Old school gory as hell and great to watch on Samhain.

    Find it and check it out as you won't be disappointed.
  • October 6, 2009
    You can't entirely blame the film, but at the same time you can. The story is pretty much retarded, but the climatic bloody aftermath kept my gory expectations rather satisfied.Worth watching moments here and there overshadowed by a horrible film that, with a different editing an...( read more)d the use of another soundtrack, could have been a comedy splatter! Talent wasted.

    34/100
  • August 4, 2009
    it's... good, just gotta give it a chance, has a good storyline, at least for me
  • August 3, 2009
    haha wow I didn't know that this would be a gory & zombie movie, but it made me laugh and I pretty much had fun all long of the story. I just don't like the cat part ):
  • June 13, 2009
    Ewwww... what more can I say?

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  • Gx7
    August 17, 2008
    =s found this to be a waste of time and money. Absolute rubbish. They just made the packaging look good.

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