Monday, April 13, 2009

Sanitarium

British medical suspense drama (they call it a horror, but it's not) from 2001, kind of like a shorter version of The Kingdom. A doctor is developing a drug to cure the crazies. The doctor is under the forceful hand of the asylum director who is hoping to get rich off the drug and is rushing (and skipping) a lot of testing. The doctor seems to go crazy and shoots himself before his work is completed, though not before we find out he is doing autopsies in the closed off portion of the hospital under the guidance of the director. The doctor who is assisting with the drug finds his notes with this random reporter’s help and autopsy remnants and begins to go crazy himself. Then his wife (also a doctor at the hospital) goes crazy and dies. The director is still trying to push for the release of this new drug, but clearly, things are getting tense. It’s got that annoying repetitive vocal music like a grown-up version of the Children of the Corn music (you know what I’m talking about). In the end the photographer/journalist starts seeing scary things in the photos he’s taken. They release the drug and people start dying left and right. They added Uri Geller into the film when they got to the end of the film and realize none of it made sense, so he’s playing a detective asking just enough questions to make some semblance of sense with this thing. It’s got one of those ending that doesn’t really make sense and you’re not quite sure what you saw, but it’s not a terrible movie. Just ends poorly.

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