Lunacy

– Loosely based on two short stories by Edgar Allan Poe and inspired by the works of the Marquis de Sa..

Type:
Movie
Rating:
7.30 / 10
Duration:
One Hour and 58 Minutes
Release Year:
2005
Original Name:
Šílení
Lunacy (2005) - Also known as Šílení

Loosely based on two short stories by Edgar Allan Poe and inspired by the works of the Marquis de Sade. In 19th century France a young man is plagued by nightmares in which he is dragged off to a madhouse. On the journey back from his mother’s funeral he is invited by a Marquis he meets at lunch to spend the night in his castle. There he witnesses a blasphemous orgy and a ‘therapeutic’ funeral. He tries to flee but is taken to a lunatic asylum where the patients have complete freedom and the staff are locked up behind bars.

Lunacy (2005) - Trailer

Release Date:

17 Nov 2005

Language:

Czech

Director:

Jan Svankmajer

Writer:

Edgar Allan Poe (story), Marquis de Sade (story), Jan Svankmajer

Main Actors:

Jan Tríska, Pavel Liska, Anna Geislerová, Martin Huba

Plot:

A horror movie testing two approaches to running an insane asylum - absolute freedom versus control and punishment - within the context of a world that combines the worst of both. Jean Berlot, a young man subject to a nightmare of being forced into a straitjacket by two orderlies, is befriended by a marquis. At the marquis's estate, Jean witnesses a black Mass, buries someone alive, and is invited to try preventive therapy. He's willing to enter a sanatorium because he believes he can rescue a young woman from there who has told him that the real director and staff of the clinic are locked in the basement. Jean conspires with her to set them free: the horrors have only begun.

Awards:

8 wins & 7 nominations.

Production:

Zeitgeist

Ratings:
Internet Movie Database:
7.3/10
Rotten Tomatoes:
65%
Metacritic:
63%