‘When you have found a thing a man fears most, you will have discovered the key to his madness.’
Stonehearst Asylum (formerly known as Eliza Graves) is a 2014 horror film directed by Brad Anderson (Session 9) for Millennium Entertainment from a screenplay by Joseph Gangemi (Fear Itself, Wind Chill) based on Edgar Allan Poe’s The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether. It stars Kate Beckinsale, Brendan Gleeson, Michael Caine, Jim Sturgess, Ben Kingsley, David Thewlis, Jason Flemyng, Sophie Kennedy Clark, Sinéad Cusack, Edmund Kingsley, Velizar Binev, Christopher Fulford, Guillaume Delaunay, Anton Poriazov and Robert Hands.
The film is slated for an October 24th release in cinemas and VOD platforms, just in time for Halloween.
Plot teaser:
A recent medical school grad who takes a position at a mental institution soon finds himself taken with one of his colleagues, though he has no initial idea of a recent, horrifying staffing change…