Struggling actress accepts high paying job to play a rich heiress committed in a lunatic asylum, not knowing she's really being set up as a surrogate for the real girl who'd been murdered.
Acting
Ann Dusenberry's unraveling is genuinely unhinged.
Production
Creepy institution corridors that breathe.
Director
Jim Wheat
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The Wheat brothers later wrote Pitch Black and The Fly II, proving they never met a claustrophobic nightmare they didn't like.
Released during America's deinstitutionalization wave, it weaponizes asylum horror just as real facilities were closing—paranoid timing.
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