Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.

This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

The movie really just wants to entertain people.

Madhouse (2004)I loved the opening scene of this movies, it was very well made, it had some very stranger and it felt very surreal. So the movies had it from the very first scenes and I really enjoyed the rest of the movie. I found the whole movie flowed really well, well it wasn't fast or slow, it was not boring at at I have some part of the movie very creepy and some tense moment in this movies, Which I thought were really good. I really liked how they did the twist, you may see it coming but it done really well and I liked the very last scenes of the movie, The deaths scenes were not that bad but I did not liked the affect some of death scenes were from screen. The acting was really good from the whole cast 8 out of 10

Clark(Joshua Leonard)is a meek student intern looking to earn a credit so that he can finish his degree taking an employee position at a poorly ran mental institution, overrun by the stern and irritable Dr. Franks(Lance Henriksen). When Clark poses the idea of making conditions better at the institution, immediately Franks shows aggravation and resistance towards him. When mysterious brutal murders begin to occur to the staff of the institute, Clark joins forces with a co-worker Sara(cutie, Jordan Ladd), who herself has secrets regarding her own bouts with slight schizophrenia, to uncover what exactly is going on. Who is committing the murders and is the good Doctor Franks hiding something. Clark confides in a "patient" in a cell block on the bottom floor, a darkened hall of prisons for lunatics and psychos, named Ben who seems to know about specific details regarding the murders and history of the institution. Also, Clark sees the ghostly apparition of a little boy. How does Ben know about details being that he's locked away in a cell and who is this little boy? And, who exactly is the murderer doing in hospital staff members and a certain mental patient who seems healthy enough to leave the facility? I thought for the first hour, this was quite a nifty little asylum terror tale, but the twist conclusion, as the reveal of the killer is established, really opens up Pandora's box where the logistics of everything we've seen and the possibilities of how an identity of someone could be taken so easily. I'm not sure the twist can hold strong on close scrutiny. The opening sure belts you for a loop..we get an explosion of bizarre, grotesque images of creepy characters within the mind of a child patient who escapes out the third story window of an asylum who is hit by a car intentionally. It certainly sets up the story in an unusual way. I'm drawn to horror films set in asylums because crazies make for interesting subjects..that's what the genre's all about. Natasha Lyonne is wasted as a patient named Alice who sees a boy yet no one believes her. Dendrie Taylor is Nurse Hendricks, who appears as about as loony as the ones under her watch. Leslie Jordan is the eccentric Dr. Morgan who informs Clark of the place's unusual history regarding the escape of the boy and how buildings such as the specific institute they reside has secrets which continue to live on through the place. Leonard ably fulfills the role of Clark, a young man trying to set things right in his pursuit of the killer. He's geeky, yet attractive. He's a bit naive, yet doggedly determined enough to continue his search for the truth. Jordan Ladd sets up Sara as someone with troubles, who has finally found a possible soulmate in Clark. There's an air of mystery about her and the film goes with that offering up a possibility that she might be the one responsible for the slayings. But, the film gives you clues within the story to guess who is committing the ghoulish murders taking place. Those who have watched enough of these kind of twisty movies will probably guess who the killer is. I'm not sure I completely bought into the twist, but I found the flick entertaining enough. I might've actually have enjoyed this more if it had followed the possible supernatural path, concerning a possible haunting to the institution, instead of the psychological direction it eventually takes. Henriksen fans might be disappointed in his rather underwritten role..he's merely here to provide a possible figure of higher authority with secrets to hide, who might just know the answer to what's going on under his watch.

Last night my friends and I decided to rent a DVD and we found this one interesting. First of all, the setting is by no means original. It is a classic mental health facility presumably situated in the countryside where people are locked up: people whose mere existence the society tries to forget about. Clark Stevens, a soon-graduating student of psychiatry, arrives at Cunningham Hall to finish his practical training, but soon discovers that there is something strange about this peculiar mental health facility.The plot is not the most original one there is, yet the producers wound up with an OK result. Once the story begins to unfold I pretty much lost interest in the film though, as though the film did not manage to keep the tension throughout the last part of the film. The film is worth seeing if you have nothing better to do a Sunday evening, but do not expect too much entertainment. 5/10

This film is about an intern who started working in a mental hospital, and the events that happened after.This film successfully kept me wanting to know more. It kept me on edge. The acting is good, I have never heard of Joshua Leonard before, and I think he did a good job.I liked the story, especially because of the twist in the end in a rather unexpected way.I have only two minor complaints. The first is that the murders are too graphic and bloody. The second is that the subplot of the medication problem is not developed fully enough. The film could have been turned into a mystery thriller just on that subplot alone!