Doom Asylum

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Doom Asylum
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Directed byRichard Friedman
Screenplay byRick Marx [1]
Produced bySteve Menkin [1]
Starring
CinematographyLarry Revene [1]
Edited byRay Shapiro
Music by
  • Dave Erlanger
  • Jonathan Stuart [1]
Distributed byFilmworld/Academy Entertainment
Release date
  • March 2, 1988 (1988-03-02)
Running time
78 minutes [1]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$90,000 (estimated)
Box office$476,340

Doom Asylum is a 1988 American comedy slasher film written by Rick Marx and directed by Richard Friedman.

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In the film, a lawyer is disfigured in a car accident. He revives during his own autopsy and goes on a killing spree. A decade later, he lives in a mental asylum. He defends his new home against perceived intruders.

Plot

Attorney Mitch Hansen and his fiancée Judy LaRue get into a car wreck that results in Judy being killed. During an autopsy on the seemingly-dead Hansen (which disfigures his face), he wakes up and kills the medical examiners.

Ten years later, a group of friends, including Judy's daughter Kiki, have a picnic near the mental asylum where Hansen was held. A punk band is using the asylum to practice some songs. However, Hansen still inhabits the asylum and plans to go after any perceived intruders.

Cast

Production

Principal photography was scheduled to begin on July 13, 1987. The film was shot in 8 to 12 days. [2]

Release

Doom Aslym had a theatrical screening in Milan Italy before it was officially released on home video in early 1988 through Academy Home Entertainment on VHS. [2] [1] [3]

Reception

In his overview of 1980s horror films, Scott Aaron Stine declared it similar to other horror comedy films, finding it neither funny nor scary and he said that the film was "sophomoric drivel, the jokes are stale and the special effects are mostly awful." [3]

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