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An Oxford Medical School graduate takes a position at a mental institution and soon becomes obsessed with a female mental patient, but he has no idea of a recent and horrifying staffing change.


In 19th century Baltimore, Isabel Porter, a girl stricken with grief from her parents' untimely death, voluntarily checks herself into the Rosewood Institute. Subjected to bizarre and increasingly violent pseudo-scientific experiments in personality modification, brainwashing and mind control, she must escape the clutches of the Rosewood and exact her revenge, or else be forever lost.

Allie Gallerani
Isabel Porter

James Franco
Dr. Cairn
Joe Pease
Roderick Porter

Scott Haze
Gunther

Lori Singer
Madame Werner

Amber Viera
Margaret

Val Lauren
Dr. Jacobs

Zoë Bleu Sidel
Lucy

Gabrielle Haugh
Allison

Cynthia Murell
Clara Barnes
The Institute is a thriller, mystery, horror film released in 2017 exploring themes of experiment, baltimore, usa, mental institution, 19th century. Directed by Pamela Romanowsky, it stars Allie Gallerani, James Franco, Joe Pease. In 19th century Baltimore, Isabel Porter, a girl stricken with grief from her parents' untimely death, voluntarily checks herself into the Rosewood Institute. Subjected to bizarre and increasingly violent pseudo-scientific experiments in personality modification, brainwashing and mind control, she must escape the clutches of the Rosewood and exact her revenge, or else be forever lost.
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