- Insanitarium
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name = Insanitarium
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director = Jeff Buhler
producer =Chris Bender
Andrew Golov
Mason Novick
Larry Schapiro
J.C. Spink
Michael J. Zampino
writer = Jeff Buhler
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distributor =Screen Gems USA (theatrical)
released = 2008
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language = English
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imdb_id = 1103984"Insanitarium " is a 2008 horror thriller directed by
Jeff Buhler .toryline
The film follows a man (
Jesse Metcalfe ), faking insanity, in order to save his sister (Kiele Sanchez) who has been involuntarily institutionalized. The siblings soon find that the strange doctor at the asylum (Peter Stormare ) has been testing an experimental compound on the patients that seems to be turning them into flesh eating psychopaths. The two siblings band together with a terminally paranoid man (Kevin Sussman ) and a helpful nurse (Olivia Munn ) in the hopes of finding a way out of the asylum. At the end of the film, the two siblings are trapped in a police car, while the patients escape into the outside world. It ends with a panning shot, revealing the city below the asylum's hillside location.Production
The film was shot during August/September of 2007 with the majority of filming taking place at the abandoned RFK Memorial Hospital in Hawthorne, CA. The "maximum security" set and the "laundry chute" were both constructed from scratch on site in an empty wing of the hospital.
Mathew Mungle Creations, the same special effects company that supplied the notorious effects for the Jeff Buhler written "Midnight Meat Train", also supplied the special effects for Insanitarium. Nearly everything was done using practical effects and prosthetics with very little contribution from CGI; including the decapitation of a fake cat.
Peter Stormare improvised many parts of his role including the "panties in the mouth" scene with the actress who plays Vera, his research assistant (Carla Gallo). She comments on this scene in the behind the scenes DVD extras.External links
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