Dark Asylum

In this high-tension thriller, a notorious serial killer called "The Trasher" has been captured, and has been locked up in an unusual high-tech mental institution for the criminally insane. However, the female psychiatrist who has been attempting to learn the killer's secrets is suddenly in a ...more

Dark Asylum is a good old-fashioned monster movie, nothing more and nothing less. And it's a fine effort, too, with excellent production values, a breathless pace, and a relentless, memorable, murderous beast that could pop up in a nightmare weeks later. Larry Drake -- bloated, baggy-eyed, and bald -- as "the Trasher" (because he stuffs his dead victims in dumpsters) looks like a depressed Uncle Fester in a straitjacket as he terrorizes lovely Maggie Belham (Paulina Porizkova), a psychiatrist ...more