The Institute is a 2017 American horror film co-directed by James Franco (who also stars) and Pamela Romanowsky from a screenplay by Adam and Matt Rager.
In 19th century Baltimore, a girl stricken with grief from her parents’ untimely death, voluntarily checks herself into the Rosewood Institute.
Unfortunately, she is subjected to bizarre and increasingly violent pseudo-scientific experiments in personality modification, brainwashing and mind control, and must escape the clutches of the Rosewood to exact her revenge…
The film is being released in select theaters and on VOD on March 3, 2017, by Momentum Pictures.
Main cast:
James Franco, Allie Gallerani, Tim Blake Nelson, Lori Singer, Scott Haze, Joe Pease, Eric Roberts and Josh Duhamel.
Filming locations:
Los Angeles, California, USA