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| Asylum | |
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| Directed by | Roy Ward Baker |
| Written by | Robert Bloch |
| Produced by | Max Rosenberg Milton Subotsky |
| Starring | |
| Cinematography | Denys N. Coop |
| Edited by | Peter Tanner |
| Music by | Douglas Gamley |
Production companies | Amicus Productions Harbor Productions |
| Distributed by | Cinema International Corporation |
Release date |
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Running time | 88 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
Asylum (U.S. title: House of Crazies) is a 1972 British anthology horror film made by Amicus Productions.[1][2] The film was directed by Roy Ward Baker and produced by Milton Subotsky. Robert Bloch wrote the script, adapting four of his own short stories.[3]
Baker had considerable experience as a director of horror films, having made Quatermass and the Pit and Scars of Dracula. Bloch had written the novel Psycho, on which the film directed by Alfred Hitchcock was based.
The film was shot in April 1972; it premièred in the UK on 6 July 1972, and in North America on 17 November 1972.
- ^ "Asylum". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 20 August 2024.
- ^ "Asylum (1972)". British horror films. Archived from the original on 25 February 2020. Retrieved 31 May 2012.
- ^ "ASYLUM". film4. Retrieved 31 May 2012.