Insanitarium (2008) on Netflix
Lily is committed to a mental institution, and her brother Jack is refused permission to visit. He fakes insanity to enter the asylum where Dr. Gianetti runs experiments on the patients.
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Plot summary
Lily Romero attempts suicide after their mother's death, and she is committed to a mental institution where her brother Jack is refused permission to visit. Jack, in despair, pretends to be insane to be admitted to the same asylum and reach her. Inside, he learns that Dr. Gianetti, the administrator, uses patients as guinea pigs, dosing them with an experimental drug called Orpheus. The side effects turn patients and staff into flesh-eating attackers. Jack and Lily join Dave, a paranoid patient, and Nancy, a nurse, in looking for a way out, while the asylum's halls fill with the infected. Elsewhere in the institution, Charles and Heather conduct an affair.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Insanitarium (2008)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Nearly everything in Insanitarium was done using practical effects and prosthetics, with very little CGI, including the decapitation of a fake cat. The effects came from Mathew Mungle Creations, the same company that supplied the notorious effects for the Jeff Buhler written Midnight Meat Train.
- Stormare improvised many parts of his role, among them the "panties in the mouth" scene with Carla Gallo, who plays Vera, his research assistant. Gallo commented on the scene in the behind the scenes DVD extras.
- Most of Insanitarium was filmed at the abandoned RFK Memorial Hospital in Hawthorne, California, where the "maximum security" set and the "laundry chute" were both built from scratch in an empty wing of the hospital.
