A Harvard Medical School graduate takes a position at a mental institution and soon becomes obsessed with a female mental patient, but he has no idea of a recent and horrifying staffing change.
If you accept the grandly Gothic insanity here, there's a lot of fun to be had.
– Elizabeth Weitzman,
New York Daily News,
23 Oct 2014
rotten:
Shockingly flabby ...
– Jeannette Catsoulis,
New York Times,
23 Oct 2014
rotten:
All involved deserve better, particularly Poe.
– Moira MacDonald,
Seattle Times,
23 Oct 2014
rotten:
On the surface, Anderson seems to have all the necessary pieces for a surreal psycho pop. But the fear factor eludes him, leaving "Stonehearst Asylum" more insipid than insane.
– Betsy Sharkey,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Oct 2014
rotten:
It's 'Shutter Island' in the Scottish Highlands with this initially intriguing, ultimately depressing Victorian-era madhouse drama.