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Doctor Martin (Robert Powell) arrives at Dunsmoor Asylum to start his
new job but is put to a test instead by Dunsmoor's head Dr. Rutherford (Patrick
Magee): He has to find out who of the patienst was Dr. Starr, the
asylum's former head gone insane. So Martin listens to each of the
patients' story for some clues. First up it's Bonnie (Barbara Parkins),
who with her lover Walter (Richard Todd) made up a plan to kill his wife
Ruth (Sylvia Sims). But since that woman was into voodoo, she of course
had the power to come back from the dead - even if she was cut into
pieces. So her various bodyparts killed Walter & disfigured Bonnie's
face. The second story considers down on his luck taylor Bruno (Barry
Morse), who, in desperate need for money, takes on a job from a certain
Mr. Smith (Peter Cushing) to make a special suit of a special material,
but only during night hours. But when he visits Smith with the suit, he
realizes it's some kind of magical suit to bring Smith's son back to
life. In horror, he kills Smith - but when he later puts the suid on a
shopwindow mannequin, that creature comes to life, violently attacking
him. The third patient is Barbara (Charlotte Rampling), who always had
delusions of having an evil twin Lucy (Britt Ekland), & was
therefore monitored by her brother George (James Villiers) & nurse
Higgins (Megs Jenkins). But then Lucy kills both George & Miss
Higgins ... The last of the patient Dr. Martin is seeing is Dr. Byron (Herbert
Lom) who has built himself some hommunculi, one of them in his own
image, & he cklaims he can put his mind into them, so making them do
things ... Martin has heard enough, he tells Rutherford that he does
not intend to stay in the asylum, only to suddenly see Rutherford being
killed by one of Byron's hommunculi. In shock, Martin squashes the
little guy, only to descover, when he looks after Byron again, that this
man is also squashed.
But who, you might ask, has been Starr after all ?
None of the above, but the asylum's orderly Max (Geoffrey Bayldon).& by killing Martin,
he esumes his old position - though
completely off the hook.
Antoher of the Amicus-omnibus movies with terribly uneven stories by
the overrated Robert Bloch. It's not actually an all-bad movie, but in
some stories the punchline is sadly missing or doesn't make sense
in context of the movie. Still, the movie has some old-fashioned
entertainment value.
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