Stonehearst Asylum Comes Home for the Horrordays!
Steve Barton
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Millennium Entertainment has announced that the Gothic thriller Stonehearst Asylum (review) will be hitting DVD and Blu-ray on December 16, 2014.
The flick is loosely based on one of Edgar Allan Poe’s early works, an 1845 short story titled “The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether.” It’s written by Joe Gangemi and directed by Brad Anderson (Session 9, The Call, “Almost Human”).
The cast includes Kate Beckinsale, Jim Sturgess, Ben Kingsley, Michael Caine, Brendan Gleeson, David Thewlis, Jason Flemyng, and Sinéad Cusack. Producers are Bruce Davey, Mel Gibson, and Mark Amin with David Higgins, Christa Campbell, Cami Winikoff, Mark Gill, and Lati Grobman executive producing.
Synopsis:
When young doctor Edward Newgate (Sturgess) arrives at Stonehearst Asylum in search of an apprenticeship, he is warmly welcomed by superintendent Dr. Lamb (Kingsley) and a mesmerizing woman by the name of Eliza Graves (Beckinsale). Edward is intrigued by Lamb’s modern methods of treating the insane until a series of unusual events leads him to make a horrifying discovery, exposing Lamb’s utopia and pushing Edward to the limits of his conscience. Inspired by a short story from Edgar Allan Poe, ‘Stonehearst Asylum’ is a tale in which nobody is who or what they appear to be.
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