George is haunted by the demons of his family's past and tortured by the voices inside his head. He makes one last attempt at recovery by contacting his dead mother's doctor. The doctor's orders; that he attend Bedlam Hospital for a guaranteed recovery. As George checks in he's confronted by a world of society's unwanted, unloved and unstable. Soon, he will discover that all is not as it seems. The hospital hides a dark secret. Welcome to Bedlam...
Practical Effects
Grotty asylum atmosphere on clearly limited budget
Acting
Guy Edmonds commits to unraveling completely
Director
Chew Barker
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot in an actual decommissioned psychiatric hospital in Sydney, which the crew found genuinely unsettling. Some refused night shoots alone.
The title references the infamous Bethlem Royal Hospital, origin of the word 'bedlam' — the film deliberately echoes historical medical atrocities against the mentally ill.
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