Asylum (also known as House of Crazies in subsequent US releases) is a 1972 British horror film made by Amicus Productions. The film was directed by Roy Ward Baker, produced by Milton Subotsky, and scripted by Robert Bloch (who adapted four of his own short stories for the screenplay).
Baker had considerable experience as a director of horror films as he had tackled Quatermass and The Pit, and Scars of Dracula. Baker directed many other types of films including A Night to Remember and worked as Assistant Director under Alfred Hitchcock on The Lady Vanishes as well as working as a director on such popular British TV shows as The Avengers. Robert Bloch, who wrote the script for Asylum based on a series of his own short stories, was also the author of the novel Psycho which Hitchcock directed as a film.
It is a horror anthology film, one of several produced by Amicus during the 1960s to 1970s. Others were Dr Terror's House of Horrors, Torture Garden, Tales from the Crypt, The House That Dripped Blood, The Vault of Horror, and From Beyond the Grave. (Tales That Witness Madness was a similar film from a different company.)
Shot in April of 1972 the film was edited and set for release 15
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