Horror films about psychiatric hospitals are filmed all the time today - this is fertile ground in order to scare the grateful viewer with vengeful insane ghosts or schizophrenic psychiatrists who perform horrific experiments on people. The film "House of Fear", which tells a mystical story about a young doctor who came to practice in a mysterious psychiatric hospital, was no exception.
Film basis
The director and screenwriter of "House of Fear" was William Butler, known to the audience for the horror film "Night of the Living Dead". For the leading roles in his film, he invited such actors as Lance Henriksen, Natasha Lyonne, Joshua Leonard and Jordan Ladd, who starred in many popular television series.
The most popular of the cast is Lance Henriksen, who has featured prominently in The X-Files, Tales from the Crypt and Millennium.
Butler created a simple yet watchable horror-movie thriller that has the eerie atmosphere of psychiatric hospitals that hide terrible secrets in their bowels. In "House of Fear" the director revealed the attitude of doctors towards their mentally ill patients, their criminal indifference and negligence. During the film, the protagonist investigates a series of atrocious murders among patients and staff, along the way getting acquainted with the backstage of the clinic - sadistic nurses, a brutal hospital director and other "charming" people.
Movie plot worth watching
"House of Fear" begins with a sideshow, showing viewers paranormal phenomena and flying ghosts. Then a young doctor Clarke appears on the screen, who arrives at a psychiatric hospital, ostensibly to undergo practice and improve his skills in communicating with patients. The hospital already causes unpleasant sensations in the doctor from the doorway: he hears strange sounds, incomprehensible shadows flash before his eyes, and local madmen behave more strangely than they should be diagnosed with.
Contributes to this picture and the mysterious head physician, stubbornly unwilling to make his hospital more modern.
Soon, Clarke realizes that some supernatural forces are at work in the clinic, which are beginning to kill patients. He tends to blame the chief physician for this, who has an unhealthy interest in ghosts and is clearly trying to contact them for unhealthy goals. Suddenly, the doctor learns about the existence of a patient who is kept in the old block and is completely isolated "from society." Clark learns from the local contingent a strange story about a boy, meets new friends and periodically suffers from unexplained headaches. The doctor continues to see strange flickers in his field of vision, tries to penetrate deeper into the history of the hospital, unravels the tangled tangle along a thread … and as a result, he opens a shocking clue that will forever change the life of a young intern.
