Horror films about psychiatric hospitals are being shot all the time today - this is fertile ground in order to frighten a grateful viewer with vengeful crazy ghosts or schizophrenic psychiatrists who perform terrifying experiments on people. The film "House of Fear", telling a mystical story about a young doctor who came to practice in a mysterious mental hospital, was no exception.
Film basis
The director and screenwriter of The House of Fear was William Butler, a renowned viewer for the horror movie Night of the Living Dead. For the main roles in his film, he invited such actors as Lance Henriksen, Natasha Lyon, Joshua Leonard and Jordan Ladd, who starred in many popular television series.
The most popular of the acting stock is Lance Henriksen, the performer of vivid roles in the TV series The X-Files, Tales from the Crypt and Millennium.
Butler turned out to be a simple but watchable thriller, pretending to be a horror film, which has an eerie atmosphere of psychiatric hospitals that hide terrible secrets in their bowels. In the "House of Fear", the director revealed the attitude of doctors to his mentally ill patients, their criminal indifference and negligence. During the film, the protagonist investigates a series of brutal murders among patients and staff, simultaneously getting to know the backstage of the clinic - nurse-sadists, the brutal director of the hospital and other "charming" people.
