Madhouse (2004) Hey what's up guys. Today
I'll show you a Slasher film: "Madhouse"! Spoiler ahead, watch out and take care!
The movie begins in a mental facility. The voice of a young boy laughing hysterically
could be heard in every direction of the building. Furthermore, scary figures flash
into the scene out of nowhere. It is revealed that these creatures are haunting the young
boy's mind. Stressing about the figures, the young boy can not contain himself and panics.
To escape from his nightmares, the young boy breaks the window, and escapes from the asylum.
He runs for his life, without looking back to the place that tortured him all his life. The
young boy goes to the forest to avoid the mental facility's staff chasing after him. The scene
continues as the staff repeatedly uses all their remaining energy to fetch the young boy back.
Unfortunately, just as the young boy is about to escape, he sees a car in the middle of the
road. Without hesitation, the car accelerates and runs over the poor boy, killing him without
mercy. The driver gets out of the car, but does not feel remorse about what he did.
After the tragedy, the scene transitions to a small town. a psychiatric student named Clark,
arrives at the Cunningham Hall Mental Facility to train before graduating. He goes straight forward
to the entrance to introduce himself. Soon after, he goes to the reception
to look for a man named "Doctor Franks". Unfortunately, there is not a single person in
the reception. Being impatient, Clark forces his way inside the asylum. After he opens the door,
he's immediately greeted by the patients. Hopeless, Clark asks one of the patients
where he could find Doctor Franks. The patient reacts aggressively, and puts
her hands on Clark's chest, threatening him. Fortunately, an assistant doctor comes and ends
the commotion. The assistant welcomes Clark to the asylum. Soon after, a red-haired staff member
comes and welcomes Clark into the facility. They exchange greetings rather than hormones,
before heading to the admin office for the paperwork. Also, the staff gives Clark keys and
a walkie-talkie, and proceeds to Doctor Franks. On the way to the Doctor, Clark and the staff are
startled by a beardy patient, specifically his messy beard. Patient Beardy says that he
does not belong to the asylum. He also says that the facility does not let the patients be freed,
even though they are already better. Patient Beardy claims that the people
who run the facility are the crazy ones. Ending the commotion, the staff escorts Patient
Beardy away. Finally, both of them arrive at Doctor Franks' office. While waiting,
Clark inspects the office. To his curiosity, he finds a very strange book entitled,
"Psychology and the Paranormal". He grabs the book quickly, and skims through it.
Suddenly, Doctor Franks appears in the scene. He approaches Clark with warm greetings. However,
as soon as Clark feels comfortable, Doctor warns him that he is not in a summer camp,
and should take the internship very seriously. two more doctors come to the office and introduce
themselves. The old doctor claims that he had worked with Clark's grandfather in the old days.
Doctor Franks tells Clark he should meet one of the nurses named Sara, for the grand tour.
Soon after, Clark and Sara meet and exchange greetings, but still not hormones. Sara says
that Doctor Franks is strict, and advises Clark to work hard and just follow orders. Before touring,
the scene focuses on a patient named Alice. Alice stares out the window,
and sees a creepy-looking boy. The scene continues as Sara tours
Clark in the facility. In the corridor, both of them are greeted by the Head Nurse. As Head
Nurse welcomes Clark, she asks Sara to talk in the office privately. Then, an old patient
approaches Clark, and says something about "a figure" lingering in the facility for months.
Soon after, Sara comes back to continue the tour. She introduces the "Madhouse",
a place in the facility where high-security patients reside. Clark is perplexed, as he
witnesses the Madhouse as a very scary place. Sara introduces each high-security patient to
Clark, each with different diagnosed mental health illnesses. Suddenly, one of the patients attacks
Clark with a sharp glass. To ask for help, Sara alarms the security guard to come after them.
With such speed, the security guard beats the patient using his stick. With the commotion,
they all decide to leave the Madhouse for good. Next, Clark goes to his room to rest. Suddenly,
he sees a young boy randomly lingering. To learn more, Clark asks the young boy
to introduce himself. However, the young boy disappears like a bubble, without traces of
his body smell. Clark goes out to check on the commotion he heard on the walkie-talkie.
He witnesses Head Nurse physically abusing Alice for refusing to take her medications.
Alice is saying something about "a figure" disturbing her sleep. Luckily,
Patient Beardy comes to the scene, and saves Alice from the abuse of Head Nurse.
Again while strolling around, Clark sees the young boy out of nowhere. As a reaction,
Clark chases after him; but the young boy runs as fast as he can. Clark is perplexed, as he cannot
understand how the young boy keeps disappearing like a bubble whenever he confronts him.
Clark attempts to find the young boy in the Madhouse. Rather than finding the young boy,
he is greeted by the old doctor. He says that he did not see a young boy come to the Madhouse. So
Clark asks the old doctor about the noise he has heard at the facility. The old doctor then recalls
the saddest patient he encountered on Cell 44. He says the patient escaped by jumping out of
the building and died. However, the old doctor believes that he still lingers in the building,
which indicates that the noise Clark has been hearing could be from that same patient.
Because of the commotion last night, Doctor Franks calls Clark to his office. He says
that he does not like Clark lingering in the Madhouse in the middle of the night without
any reason. Clark argues that the facility is understaffed and broken. He also mentions the
patient that escaped Cell 44. However, Doctor Franks only dismisses everything Clark said.
He offers that if Clark abides by the rules, he will consider listening to his suggestions
next time. When Clark leaves the office, he hears Doctor Franks and Head Nurse arguing.
In the evening, Sara and Head Nurse hear something outside. Head Nurse grabs her taser, and goes out
to check on it. However, tragedy comes when a cloaked figure appears behind Head Nurse,
and attacks her suddenly. Then, the figure brings and locks her into a room. Fearing for her life,
Head Nurse screams at the top of her chicken lungs. However, her chicken voice suddenly stops,
when the figure electrocutes her to death using a defibrillator.
After finding out about the murder, all the staff mourns the death of Head Nurse. Doctor
Franks assigns every person an area to conduct interviews about the murder. he assigns Clark to
the Madhouse. After interviewing some patients, Clark could still not get any leads. Continuing
the interviews, Clark talks to a certain patient in Cell 44. Clark can not see the patient's face,
because he is sitting in the dark. However, the patient says that the
killer of Head Nurse could be on the top of the food chain, implying Doctor Franks.
The following day, Clark asks the nurse in charge of medications about the Madhouse. However,
the nurse does not give any help. She only says that everyone in the Madhouse takes the same
medication. Clark describes the person in Cell 44 to Sara. Sara says that he should not take the
opinions of mentally-ill people too seriously. but Clark says that he heard Doctor Franks and
Head Nurse had a massive fight recently; so he believes that the claim of the person in Cell 44
could be true. Sara does not buy it, because she believes the patients are delusional.
In the next scene, Clark has a heart-to-heart talk with Patient Beardy. Clark believes that
Patient Beardy does not belong in the asylum anymore, because he is better already. However,
Beardy says that he would not be able to leave the asylum alive.
Later, Clark and Sara meet with some of the patients. She asks Alice why she's feeling
scared all the time. Alice says she has been seeing a ghost for quite some time now, and it
would not leave her no matter what she does. She describes the ghost as a young boy, that runs
through the facility at night. This reveals that it is the same boy that Clark has been seeing.
The following day, Clark returns to Cell 44 to talk with the same person. The person introduces
himself as "Ben", and he says something about a young boy lingering. Although
Clark wants to continue the conversation, he needs to go as he has other things to do.
Next, Clark eats lunch with Sara. Sara confides that she has been diagnosed
with minor schizophrenia, which is why she has taken the same medication as the patients in
the Madhouse. However, Clark wonders why Sara's medication is in a different color. Suddenly,
they hear a loud noise outside the dining area. Upon checking it, they witness that Patient Beardy
hangs himself to death, but not using his long beard. Alice then says that suicide is the only
way out of the asylum. Clark rushes to the nurse in charge of medication, and asks what medication
was taken by Patient Beardy. Upon realizing that it is the same medication as the patients in the
Madhouse, Clark goes into the basement again. Clark goes back to Cell 44 to talk with Ben again.
He asks Ben if he takes the same medication as the other patient. Ben says he doesn't like taking the
medication, because he knows it does not really help him. He claims that the medication the
asylum is giving, makes the patients crazier. In the next scene, Clark and Sara sneak into the
medication room to check the controversial pills. They quickly grab some samples,
and get out as fast as possible. Clark says he will send the samples to his
colleague at the university to examine them. He theorizes that the mental facility is giving
suspicious medications to its patients. In the next scene, Clark sees the young
boy again in his window. He is perplexed as he sees the young boy floating by himself. Later,
he sneaks into Doctor Franks' office with Sara, to read the doctor's books about psychology and the
paranormal. At this point, Clark is convinced that something paranormal is haunting the facility.
Suddenly, the police arrest the security guard for the murder of Head Nurse. Meanwhile,
the young boy appears again out of nowhere. Clark asks him his name. However, the young
boy only laughs in a chicken voice. But the ghost disappears when the phone rings.
Clark then picks the phone up, and realizes it is his university colleague. His colleague says that
he did not find anything suspicious in the pills; but it is only a placebo and had no effects.
With it, he goes back to Ben to talk about it. He realizes that Ben is right, and the pills do
not help the patients. Clark plans to call the boards, and expose all the atrocities the mental
facility commits against its patients. He also tells Ben that he does not think the security
guard murdered Head Nurse. He theorizes that Doctor Franks has something to do with it.
Amazed by Ben's knowledge, Clark asks him if he knows something about the ghost boy. However,
Ben advises him to go back upstairs as he still has work. In the next scene,
Clark and Sara look into the patients' records. They realize that since Doctor Franks took charge
of the facility, none of the patients was released. This reveals that Clark's theory
could be right that Doctor Franks is keeping the patients unhealthy, so they could not get
out of the facility, meaning more profit. However, Clark is perplexed when he sees Ben's
record in the books. The book says that Ben was already dead many years ago. He tells Sara that
it is false, because he just talked with Ben earlier in the morning. After that, they share
some romantic time to break the stress. In the next scene, the old doctor goes to
the kitchen to cook himself some food. However, the same cloaked figure that killed Head Nurse,
appears to flex its mysterious muscles. The figure attacks and kills the old
doctor using an ax, causing him to fall to the ground, all bloody and lifeless.
back to Clark and Sara, Sara suddenly has a mental episode. So Clark gives her medications to calm
her down. Sara says she is having difficulties distinguishing a dream from reality.
The following day, Clark hears on the radio that the security guard escaped custody. Also,
the facility learns about the death of the old doctor.
Clark rushes to Doctor Franks' office to talk to him. However, he realizes that the door is locked.
He pushes the door with all his power, but he can not open it. Sara suddenly comes to the scene, and
says that the security guard is not the murderer. She says that the police have already captured
the security guard again in a different area. Because of all the tragedy, Clark and Sara plan
to escape the facility. Sara insists they should rest for a little while before leaving, and she
drugs Clark's coffee to make him fall asleep. Clark is convinced that a ghost is making all
the killings, but Sara says it is impossible. Soon after, Clark can not resist the drugs and
falls asleep. The young boy then visits him in his dream. The boy says the answer to who
is making all the killings, is right in front of Clark's eyes. Then, Clark has a revelation that
Sara is the real killer, as he remembers that she has been diagnosed with schizophrenia.
So he confronts Sarah, and asks why she drugged him, claiming that he knows that she is the one
who made all the killings, because Ben had told him that she is the killer. This reveals that the
young ghost boy who had been appearing all the time is actually Ben, who escaped Cell 44 and
died. It also reveals that the person Clark is talking to in Cell 44 is Ben's ghost.
Moreover, Sara says there is no one in Cell 44, which is only used as a storage room.
To make sure he's not crazy, Clark then goes to the Madhouse to approach Ben. he asks Ben
to reveal his face, and Ben transforms into the same ghost young boy. But after a while,
Ben also transforms into Clark himself. This finally reveals that Clark is Ben himself,
the kid who died after attempting to escape many years ago. It is also exposed that Clark,
or Ben himself, was behind all the murders. In the next scene, Sara reads a letter pertaining
to Clark. It says that Clark, the medical student, is dead and will not continue the internship. This
reveals that Ben only used the body of Clark to impersonate him and infiltrate the mental
facility. In fact, Sara realizes that Ben was diagnosed with multiple personality disorder,
implying Ben's multiple personalities as the young boy, Clark, and the Cell 44 patient.
Next, Ben confronts Doctor Franks with an ax. He reveals himself as Ben, and comes back for
revenge. Without hesitation, he swings his axe, and kills Doctor Franks brutally. It turns out,
Doctor Franks was the one who killed Ben when he was a kid. Sara comes later,
and knocks Ben out. However, it is ineffective as Ben quickly recovers and chases after her.
Sara pleads for her life, and says she is willing to help Ben. After Ben shows vulnerability,
Sara steals the axe, and swings it to Ben's arm, making him fall. To retaliate,
Ben trips Sara, takes his axe, and kills Sara brutally. The scene fades away as
Ben goes to another mental facility, to inflict another terror again!
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