
Asylum(1972)
A young psychiatrist applies for a job at a mental asylum and must pass a test by interviewing four patients. He must figure out which of the patients, is in fact, the doctor that he would be replacing if hired.


“Hell... has found a new home!”
A young psychiatric nurse goes to work at a lonesome asylum following a murder. There, she experiences varying degrees of torment from the patients.

Bill McGhee
Sam

Jessie Lee Fulton
Jane St. Claire
Robert Dracup
Ray Daniels
Harryette Warren
Jennifer D.
Michael Harvey
Dr. Stephens
Jessie Kirby
Danny
Hugh Feagin
Sergeant Jaffee
Betty Chandler
Allyson King

Camilla Carr
Harriet

Gene Ross
Oliver W. Cameron
Don't Look in the Basement is a horror, thriller film released in 1973 exploring themes of asylum, insane asylum, sanitarium, patient, video nasty. Directed by S.F. Brownrigg, it stars Bill McGhee, Jessie Lee Fulton, Robert Dracup. A young psychiatric nurse goes to work at a lonesome asylum following a murder. There, she experiences varying degrees of torment from the patients.
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