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Stonehearst Asylum

Stonehearst Asylum

Thriller · Mystery · Horror · 2014

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.

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Stonehearst Asylum

“No one is what they seem.”

2014 Thriller · Mystery · Horror 1h 52m

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6.9 / 10

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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.

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Names above the title

The people responsible.

Directed by

Brad Anderson

Written by

Joe Gangemi

Kate Beckinsale

Kate Beckinsale

Eliza Graves

Jim Sturgess

Jim Sturgess

Edward Newgate

David Thewlis

David Thewlis

Mickey Finn

Brendan Gleeson

Brendan Gleeson

The Alienist

Ben Kingsley

Ben Kingsley

Silas Lamb

Michael Caine

Michael Caine

Dr. Benjamin Salt

Sinéad Cusack

Sinéad Cusack

Mrs. Pike

Court is in session

Put Stonehearst Asylum on trial.

Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.

The defence The Arthouse Gremlin

“Its refusal to behave is the point.”

The strange choices create the kind of friction that follows you out of the theatre and into the argument.

The prosecution The Popcorn Loyalist

“Oddness is not depth.”

A film can break every rule and still leave nothing behind but the memory of how hard it tried to be singular.