Sentences with phrase «from insane asylum»

Having escaped from an insane asylum, a killer returns to the small town where he committed his childhood murder, and terrorizes coeds on Halloween.

Christina has just escaped from an insane asylum, in the nude except for a trench coat.

it's a tale you might expect to have come from an insane asylum - complete with random events, and pointless characters.

From insane asylums, chains, shock treatments, and lobotomies to pharmacological advances beyond our imagination, group and individual therapies with non-judgmental listeners — our world has changed dramatically.

Not exact matches

If the intellectuals in the plays of Chekhov who spent all their time guessing what would happen in twenty, thirty, or forty years had been told that in forty years interrogation by torture would be practiced in Russia; that prisoners would have their skulls squeezed within iron rings; that a human being would be lowered into an acid bath; that they would be trussed up naked to be bitten by ants and bedbugs; that a ramrod heated over a primus stove would be thrust up their anal canal («the secret brand»); that a man's genitals would be slowly crushed beneath the toe of a jackboot; and that, in the luckiest possible circumstances, prisoners would be tortured by being kept from sleeping for a week, by thirst, and by being beaten to a bloody pulp, not one of Chekhov's plays would have gotten to its end because all the heroes would have gone off to insane asylums.

In cold reality, no one is qualified; but God, whose ways are not our ways, seems to choose those least qualified, people who well may have come from slums and battlefields and insane asylums.

She cares nothing for me or my «close relatives,» (ie Arsenal fans) and thinks we are out to remove her from our marriage (divorce) and put her in an asylum for the «mentally insane».

Instead of getting a response from «The One,» the mayor responded and sent her to an insane asylum for four weeks, according to an article in the Huffington Post.

This makes the potential victims about as vicious as their attackers in their need to escape from room to room, turning the lab into a kind of asylum for the homicidally insane.

Pretty sure we'd be looking perturbed too if we were going to work on an insane asylum island, but Leonardo Di Caprio is certainly showing the strain in this brand new poster from Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island.

Cropsey (Unrated) Urban legend documentary shot by a couple of first - time filmmakers from Staten Island determined to find out whether there's any truth to the haunting rumor circulated during their childhood that an escapee from a nearby insane asylum had been responsible for the mysterious disappearance of five kids from their neighborhood.

Meanwhile, three local women — played by Grace Gummer («Frances Ha»), Miranda Otto («I, Frankenstein») and Sonja Richter («The Keeper of Lost Causes»)-- have steadily become insane from the fluctuating, severe weather, rampant illnesses and the perpetual need to rear children, and Reverend Alfred Dowd (John Lithgow, «Interstellar») plans to show them asylum.

From creepy insane asylums to experimental theater and even questionable pseudo-science about insomnia, you'd be forgiven for thinking that Argentinian director...

She is whisked away from her home by mysterious great - aunties who live in a large Victorian home, formerly «St. Agony's Asylum for the Deranged, Despotic, Demented & Otherwise Undesirable (That Is to Say, Criminally Insane).»

Schizophrenic, he read the memoirs of Amadeus Arkham, who founded Arkham Asylum and went insane, and became split between two personalities, one wanting to cure and the other obsessed with «eradicating the evil of insanity» from Arkham.

Similarly, Brazilian artist Arthur Bispo do Rosário was admitted to an insane asylum in 1938, where he created junk - pile sculptures and threadbare tapestries from discarded clothing.