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Doom Asylum
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| Doom Asylum | |
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| Directed by | Richard Friedman |
| Screenplay by | Rick Marx[1] |
| Produced by | Steve Menkin[1] |
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| Cinematography | Larry Revene[1] |
| Edited by | Ray Shapiro |
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| Distributed by | Filmworld/Academy Entertainment |
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Running time | 78 minutes[1] |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $90,000 (estimated) |
| Box office | $476,340 |
Doom Asylum is a 1988 American comedy slasher film written by Rick Marx and directed by Richard Friedman.
In the film, a lawyer is disfigured in a car accident. He revives during his own autopsy and goes on a killing spree. A decade later, he lives in a mental asylum. He defends his new home against perceived intruders.
Plot
[edit]In 1977, attorney Mitch Hansen and his fiancée Judy LaRue get into a car wreck that results in Judy being killed. During an autopsy on the seemingly dead Hansen (which disfigures his face), he wakes up and kills the medical examiners.
Ten years later, a group of friends, including Judy's daughter Kiki, goes to the asylum where a rock band, Tina and the Tots, practice their local sewers loudly that made Darnell turn off their music and gets a romantic connection with him and Rapunzel. Afterwards, the group sunbathes at the back and gets water ballons thrown at from Tina and her band mates. Darnell goes back into the asylum and gets killed with a mortuary tool that crushes his skull.
The group realizes that Darnell has not returned, so Mike goes to find him. Godiva goes in the asylum and sprays graffiti on the walls. Then in the bathroom, she gets killed by Hanson, who dunks her head in the sink with liquid nitrogen to freeze her face. (Hanson, for most parts of the film, watches black and white classic films). Dennis, the baseball card collector geek, loses his card which flew to the side of the asylum by the wind, where he's killed with a drill to the head.
Mike finally reaches the roof to confront Tina about Darnell's whereabouts, but Tina makes jokes and ended up both of them in a fight, which ended Mike by hanging onto the side of the roof. Kiki and Jane go in to save Mike before he falls. Rapunzel goes to find Darnell but is killed by getting strangled with a stethoscope. Tina goes on a hunt for her friends and Kiki and Jane ended up running into Mike. The three discuss their friends' disappearances and Jane decides to go look for them herself as she runs into Tina and into a room with the beds as Hanson wakes up from his nap and comes walking towards her with a buzz saw, which he kills her by sawing into the side of her face. Tina comes in to see the murder, but Hanson runs out as Mike comes to find Jane dead and accuses Tina of her murder. Kiki yells in horror as she saw Darnell in a blood covered bathtub.
Mike and Kiki pray for their missing friends before going to escape the place, but Mike gets knocked out by an injection needle to the neck. Hanson drags Kiki to an autopsy room and held her hostage as he goes to pick up Mike. Mike is put onto the table without shoes and is killed by getting his left toes all cut out with a pair of giant scissors. Tina comes in and both fight, which led Tina getting herself killed by going through the body processor and out came a huge square of skin.
Kiki manages to escape the asylum and out into the fields where she's caught by Hanson, which he calls her "Judy" (his fiancé from the beginning of the film). Kiki kicks him as he was touching her face and runs away to realize Hanson was crying and pulls out a newspaper clipping from his lab coat pocket. Kiki looks at it and realizes that in the black and white photograph was her mother. Her father explains he had all the riches and had send Kiki to a school while he and Judy took a vacation. This makes Judy angry that she stabs her father in the eye with a mirror handle. The film ends as Kiki walks out from the asylum grounds as she walks to somewhere.
Cast
[edit]- Patty Mullen as Judy LaRue / Kiki LaRue
- Ruth Collins as Tina
- Kristin Davis as Jane
- William Hay as Mike
- Kenny L. Price as Dennis
- Harrison White as Darnell
- Dawn Alvan as Godiva
- Farin as Rapunzel
- Michael Rogen as Mitch Hansen
- Harvey Keith as Medical Examiner
- Steven G. Menkin as Assistant Medical Examiner (credited as Steve Menkin)
- Paul Giorgi as Fake Shemp
Production
[edit]Principal photography was scheduled to begin on July 13, 1987. The film was shot in 8 to 12 days.[2]
Release
[edit]Doom Asylum had a theatrical screening in Milan Italy before it was officially released on home video in early 1988 through Academy Home Entertainment on VHS.[2][1][3]
Reception
[edit]In his overview of 1980s horror films, Scott Aaron Stine declared it similar to other horror comedy films, finding it neither funny nor scary and he said that the film was "sophomoric drivel, the jokes are stale and the special effects are mostly awful."[3]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e f Stine 2003, p. 110.
- ^ a b Reyes 2018, p. 10.
- ^ a b Stine 2003, p. 111.
Sources
[edit]- Reyes, Amanda (2018). To the Denizens of Doom Asylum: A Love Letter (booklet). Arrow Films. FCD1771/AV154.
- Stine, Scott Aaron (8 July 2003). The Gorehound's Guide to Splatter Films of the 1980s. McFarland. ISBN 0786415320.
External links
[edit]- Doom Asylum at IMDb