Asylum (1972)

My rating - 7/10

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A young psychiatrist visits an asylum, and as a test to see if he's good enough to work there he has to interview four inmates, all with very strange stories to tell.

In the first story a man decides to kill his wife so he can be with his lover. After chopping her up and wrapping the body parts in brown paper he stores them in the fridge. When his lover arrives at the house she finds something terrifying. Story two involves a tailor who's asked to create a suit that has very strict rules to follow. Once he takes the finished item to the buyer a very dark secret is discovered. Story three is about a woman arriving home from a mental asylum after getting into trouble and blaming her friend who doesn't exist. Once home her "friend" comes back and soon all hell breaks loose again. The final story is also part of the framing story and involves a patient who creates dolls and is convinced he can bring them to life.

This is a great British anthology movie that's often over looked when compared to some of the other's like Dr Terror's House Of Horrors, The Vault Of Horror and Tales From The Crypt. It has a wonderful cast including Peter Cushing, Robert Powell, Britt Ekland, Charlotte Rampling, Herbert Lom and many more well known faces. There's some fun twists in the stories, the acting from all is very good and the stories range from good to great. The second one involving the tailor and the suit is my favourite, I'm sure you'll all have your own though.

The framing story is one of the best of the anthology genre and I loved the way it actually feeds into the final story. I'd definitely recommend this one to any fan of British horror movies.

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