
Alone in the Dark(1982)
A quartet of murderous psychopaths break out of a mental hospital during a power blackout and lay siege to their doctor's house.


“He's out now... The terror has just begun!”
A psychiatrist poses as an ex-sorority sister to stop a slasher freed by a computer error.

Viveca Lindfors
Mrs. Collins

Belinda Montgomery
Dr. Joan Gilmore
Solly Marx
Howard Johns

Rick Aiello
Michael

Elizabeth Kaitan
Barbara
Daisy White
Susan

Sydney Lassick
Sheriff Liggett
David Greenan
Mark McGowan

Roderick Cook
Dr. Michael Kruger
Stanja Lowe
Dr. Margaret Anderson
Silent Madness is a horror film released in 1984 exploring themes of mental institution, maniac, psychiatrist, escaped mental patient, sorority house, murder spree. Directed by Simon Nuchtern, it stars Viveca Lindfors, Belinda Montgomery, Solly Marx. A psychiatrist poses as an ex-sorority sister to stop a slasher freed by a computer error.
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