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One of my all time favorites.

Good start, but then it gets ruined

A different way of telling a story

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

Psychiatrist is called to an asylum for a job interview, finds the institute's staff as strange as the patients. Long-winded, slowly-mounted cycle of scary stories from horror-house Amicus Productions and the pen of original "Psycho" author Robert Bloch. Tales include an adulterous man and woman who become the target of revenge from his wife's dismembered corpse; a tailor who receives oddly specific instructions on the construction of a haunted suit; a disturbed girl (Charlotte Rampling, with freckles), either the victim of delusion or illusion, who is charged with a double-homicide that she says was committed by a woman who doesn't exist; and a patient who has made a robot doll in his own image and believes he can will it to life. Shuddery episodes of murder and insanity produce a few shivers, but no standout moments or performances. *1/2 from ****

Quite a fun horror anthology. Four horror stories that are corny in their way yet enjoyable to watch. A mystery is involved too - who is Dr. Star?! Out of the four stories it is the third story that I like the best, the story of Lucy.The first story, "Frozen Fear", is of a murdered wife that gets her revenge. This is not a typical ghost story - it's quite different. I found humor in this one - a bit silly.The second story, "The Weird Tailor", is about an unusual suit that a tailor has to make. Really it's not the tailor that is so weird - it's more the man that ordered the suit that is odd (played wonderfully by Peter Cushing).The third story, "Lucy Comes to Stay", is about a woman who thinks her brother is plotting against her and wonders if she's gone insane. Her 'friend Lucy' shows up to help her out.The fourth story, "Mannikins of Horror", is of a man who creates robots but makes the heads of them very human - life-like.Then we find out who Dr. Star is. Can you figure out who he is before the answer is reveled? Pretty fun - campy in a way.6.5/10

Viewed in 2013, this film is a strange mixture. A lot of its plot elements seem corny and it's let down badly by the mannikins in the final episode, which fall laughably below the description given by their creator in the dialogue. Douglas Gamley's music score seems a cop-out in some respects, stealing great chunks of Mussorgsky's Night on Bare Mountain and Pictures at an Exhibition without mention in the credits. However, in its quieter moments the music is wonderfully atmospheric, creating an eerie ambiance unmatched by any other composer in horror films of the period - managing to evoke the 1970s with clever use of a Vibraphone, mixing in other "period" instruments like an electric organ and yet somehow never sounding "cheesy".The script is excellent except for a few bits of clunky dialogue. "No-one can stop me now" would have sounded much better as "No-one will stop me from doing this." That the film still works is down largely to the excellent cast. The number of good (even great) actors that was affordable within the Amicus budget is amazing - Geoffrey Bayldon, Megs Jenkins, Patrick Magee, Robert Powell, Charlotte Rampling, Sylvia Syms, Richard Todd, James Villiers - a roll-call of British acting talent. Probably the best of all are Barry Morse and Peter Cushing, both giving performances that outshine many more respected actors, and depicting a vaguely absurd storyline with utter conviction. Barry Morse even manages to be convincing while affecting an eastern European accent - an achievement for any Anglophone actor - and the double act between these two greats turns their episode into a genuine tragedy.Asylum is never less than watchable and, in its best moments, is genuinely chilling.

There were some good story, in this anthology movieThe first was, Well i was little confused but I really liked how the story went, there were some odd moments in that segment.The second Story, I found it very dull and boring, I did like the end of the story but not a good as the first story.The Third story was not bad , I did enjoy that story but I found the whole thing very predicableThe end of the movie was very decent, Well that crazy doc, sure dose have one crazy laughing voiceThe acting was really good in this movie, from everyone in, every story ,some of them could have been better.I give this movie 6/10