Joshua Leonard

Jordan Ladd

Natasha Lyonne

Lance Henriksen

Dendrie Taylor

Leslie Jordan

Patrika Darbo

Christian Leffler

Newell Alexander

Dan Callahan

Mark Holton

William Butler

Aaron Strongoni

Viorel Sergovici

Mona C. Vasiloiu

Perry Bullington

Robert MacDonald

Andreea Tanasescu

Henry Winterstern

Stephen Semel

John Vulich

Andre Lamal

Zygi Kamasa

Alberto Caruso

Gary Lucchesi

Tom Rosenberg

Robert Bernacchi

Stephanie Denton

Andrei Boncea

Tom Fox

Simon Franks

Victoria Dragnea

Radu Corciova

Claude Letessier

Aynee Osborn

Mark Ritcheson

Gabriel Nita

Bogdan Stanciu

Tim Sabatino

Ionut Stafie

Michael Hatzer

Ioana Bernacchi

Mariana Andreescu

Helena Packer

David Heinz

Bryan Blair

Adrian Gache

Colleen Nybo

Lucian Diaconu

Ciprian Dumitrașcu

Alina Apostu

Eduard Daniel Vraciu

Liliana Toma

Ioana Albaiu

Andrei Chiroșcă

Todd Stites

Jonathan Wales

Misu Predescu

Rickley W. Dumm

Lauren Stephens

Monica Sorescu

Virgil Nicolaescu

Irene Iovan Calangiu

Theodor Halacu-Nicon

Parvu Mihai

Joe Sperandeo

Jeremy Balko

Shelley Roden

Ancuta Iordachescu

Andreea Popa

Alex Fotea

Laurent Morel

Teo Bostanica

Beju Marius

Alexandra Marinescu

Alan Freedman

Gabi Burlacu

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We all go a little crazy sometimes.
 
Straight to DVD fare it may be, but it has some merit as a spooker to make it worth spending time with. Plot finds Joshua Leonard as a psychiatric intern who arrives at Cunningham Hall Mental Facility and quickly finds that all is not as it seems.
 
It’s hardly an original concept, that of a mental asylum housing something sinister, either supernatural or of human origin, but director and co-writer William Butler has a good feel for a chilly atmosphere, while he’s not scrimping on the shocks and terrifying imagery either.
 
The asylum is a suitably depressing place, unhealthily cold to look at and the patients milling about the place are the requisite hot-pot of sad cases and the disturbed. Then there is the basement ward, of course, where the extreme cases are kept in cells, and it looks like something straight out of Hades.
 
Jordan Ladd is on hand for eye candy and romantic thread duties, and Lance Henriksen adds his horror weight to the role of Governor of Cunningham Hall. It’s all very competently performed and constructed, the screenplay full of killings, dark corridor peril, secrets and a curveball twist thrown in as well.
 
It doesn’t push any boundaries, so searching for anything new here will only end up in disappointment. Yet it’s stylish and creepy enough to warrant a night in with the lights turned off. 6/10

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