

A young psychiatrist applies for a job at a mental asylum and must pass a test by interviewing four patients. He must figure out which of the patients, is in fact, the doctor that he would be replacing if hired.
Acting
Peter Cushing's 10-minute masterclass in broken obsession
Writing
Robert Bloch's nested structure—stories that devour themselves
Production
Hammer's asylum sets: Victorian grandeur rotting from within

Director
Roy Ward Baker
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The 'Lucy' segment features a genuine 19th-century automated figure—Baker found it in a junk shop and built the entire story around its unhinged staring.
Asylum arrived at the tail end of Hammer's golden age, when the studio was desperately anthologizing to compete with the psychological horror emerging from America—it's essentially British Gothic's last stand before The Exorcist changed everything.