Synopsis
SLASHING with a snicker, SLAUGHTER with a smirk...
A demented former lawyer uses autopsy equipment to kill off the teenagers who trespass on the long-abandoned asylum he inhabits. Filmed on location in an actual abandoned asylum.
1987 Directed by Richard Friedman
A demented former lawyer uses autopsy equipment to kill off the teenagers who trespass on the long-abandoned asylum he inhabits. Filmed on location in an actual abandoned asylum.
Резня в психушке, Schronienie przeznaczenia, El manicomio, La casetta degli orrori, Изоставената болница, Психиатрията на ужасите, 末日庇护
The scene with Tina and the Tots made me complete my transformation from human girl to dissonant bloody soundwaves breaking through the soft vapors of an empyrean cosmos.
I don't know about you guys, but when I want to hang with friends, I'd like us to drive for miles on end, just so that we can chill on an abandoned asylum's lawn for an afternoon.
Doom Asylum has a fairly standard slasher set-up where a disfigured killer stalks and torments a group of "teens." This one is very tongue in cheek though and kind of meta. There is this weird absurdist humour running through out the entire movie. It was never laugh out loud funny, but it did get a couple of chuckles out of me.
The movie tries to poke fun at the genre tropes and it's modestly successful at that. It has some decent gore and
prosthetic mask work/make-up FX.
#SlasherSaturday
Some ridiculous campy humor, inspired practical effects and gore and a breezy runtime make this a really fun watch. A super young Kristen Davis of Sex and the City surprises here. Her character Jane and friend Kiki romp around in their swimsuits the entire movie for reasons. This has some of the funniest post-kill one-liners I’ve ever seen. Like:
I respect your first amendment right to the political beliefs of your choice, but I don’t necessarily agree. Heeheehee!
There’s the always welcome scissors violence on some little piggies that reminded me of Fisher Stevens fingers. I was really rooting for Tina to come through at the end. But her name was Robert Paulson. Great pick, Grindul.
Degrees of Kevin Bacon: 2
1. Kristen Davis and Sarah Jessica Parker in Sex and the City
2. Sarah Jessica Parker and Kevin Bacon in Footloose
Wow. Yeah this was really bad. Had a lot of potential to be a solid funny b-horror movie, like Terrorvision or The Uninvited, but didn't quite work all the way.
Pros:
-the villain actually has a fun look (as seen on the cover) and he gets plenty of screen time too!
-there are some legitimately funny jokes and characters in this so often you're not sure if you're laughing with the film as much as you're laughing at it.
-there's a few decent kills with hilarious gore.
-Tina & the Tots were playing some sick psychedelic noise in that rehearsal scene. They sounded like Wolf Eyes.
Cons:
-after the first kill it just takes a nose-dive into dullsville. I started doing…
"Doom Asylum" (1987) is a complete horror schlockfest directed by Richard Friedman. In that vein of things, the film is utterly and completely full of cheesy gore but is self-aware in its intentions to be an over-the-top goofy presentation, rather than some other horror films that hold an energy of being so bad that they are good for accidental reasons. There are many other films that induce some sort of comedy within horror, all situating a tonal balance to directly works according to the narrative. In this subgroup, things like "Return of the Living Dead" (1985), or "Killer Klowns From Outer Space" (1988) are easy acknowledgments that bring this energy, which "Doom Asylum" walked me down that road a bit.…
WHAT THE FUCKING FUCK
Absolutely one of the most bizarre movies I’ve ever watched.
This was so silly and absolutely bonkers and weird and I just don’t have the words. Also apparently it was filmed in NJ, and I love that for us.
Also, I don’t have an actual review but here’s some thoughts:
Condom Water-balloons
Slow Motion running through field scenes
Cut shot interludes of black and white films
Props straight out of Party City
Goofy graffiti everywhere - “No More Jello” on one of the kitchen walls
Apparently every bird in NJ was on set when the filmed the end
They play the same cover of “House of the Rising Sun” THREE times (including credits)
There’s also…
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Alright, well this was amazing! What's with all the hate? Just the abandoned asylum setting was enough to win me over. Pause every now and then to appreciate and scope out some of the stellar shit graffiti, it's so dumb! (Saten!, Acid is Fun🙂, and more SLAYER! than I can count!) The setting is just so dank and rundown, you just can't go wrong with abandoned hospitals/nuthouses/asylums. I can almost smell and taste the lead paint chipping off the walls, well maybe don't taste... I think the writer's already did. It…
Mr. Hanson won a huge lawsuit and now he's set for life. Cruising down the road chugging champagne with his girlfriend he gets into a car accident that kills her and horribly disfigures himself. Grief stricken he retreats to an abandoned asylum where he kills anyone who dares to enter his home.
The first five minutes had me hooked. The next ten minutes made me regret popping this in and it culminates with the tip of the cringeberg as a ridiculous band performs one of the most awful overextended "songs" ever made. There is this another extremely cringe scene where a girl is being consoled by her boyfriend while talking about her dead mother. The boyfriend offers to be her…
FUN PIC of me the entire runtime of Doom Asylum.
This loopy, shit-show of a slasher totally won me over by the end. Legitimately one of the strangest horror films I’ve seen in some time. It’s got sort of a nasty, early-Rob-Zombie-meets-Terrifier-2 vibe to it, what with the haphazard implementation of old black and white movie footage, obnoxious characters hollering all their dialogue, the intro featuring a coroner killed by an antagonist he incorrectly assumes is dead and a bunch of grotesque, rubbery gore. But the mean spiritedness is mitigated by judiciously cutting away from the more confrontational violence instead of sadistically dwelling on it and the forced humor doesn’t grate due to how silly and tonally inoffensive the proceedings…
A highly intellectual retelling of the Phantom of the Opera and one of the nuttiest slashers ever. Obnoxious music; a plaster replica of Kristin Davis maimed with a buzzsaw; graffiti on the walls like SATEN, EAT ME SCUMB, NO MORE JELLO, THERE IS NO JUSTICE JUST US, UH I DON'T KNOW, ACID IS FUN :) and METALLICA. Makes zero sense and the killer's one-liners are a thing of beauty. Fun, funny, stupid, colorful and lots of sick-ass gore—what else could this brief sojourn called life have to offer?
A strange, mixed bag of a slasher.
Positives:
- There were quite a few legitimately funny moments of spoof / satire. There were also a few moments that were funny on account of the movie being bad. But funny is funny.
- Good kills, including a power drill to the head and death by calipers.
- Good practical effects, like the killer's mutilated appearance.
- I was shocked when I recognised Kristin Davis as one of the teenagers. She was pretty good. She also spent almost the entire movie in a swimsuit (as did Patty Mullen).
Negatives:
- The black / white segments got tiresome quickly. The movie is only 77min long despite being padded out with these segments.…
Horror comedy slasher featuring a killer with a mutilated face offing folks in an actual asylum. Cornball jokes, colorful characters, a weird catfight, the worst band ever put on film, a deranged killer, copious amounts of cheese, and some gnarly practical effects. Another fun 80s slasher checked off the list!
The lead singer of the band was like a cheesy secondary antagonist. Her evil laugh was so comically bad. Annoying and funny at the same time.