Asylum

Asylum (1972)

Timing: 1:28 (88 min)

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Actors and characters

Release date

1972-11-17

Country

United Kingdom

Production

Amicus Productions

Genre

Horror

Budget

$0

Revenue

$0

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Director

Roy Ward Baker

Actors

Peter Cushing, Patrick Magee, Herbert Lom, Britt Ekland, Barry Morse, Charlotte Rampling, Barbara Parkins, Robert Powell, Sylvia Syms, Richard Todd
All actors and roles (10)

Scenario

Robert Bloch

Producer

Max Rosenberg, Milton Subotsky, Gustave M. Berne

Operator

Denys N. Coop

Composer

Douglas Gamley

Artist

Audition

Ronnie Curtis

Editing

Peter Tanner
All team (14)

• The scene featuring Herbert Lom was filmed in half a day.
• All scenes with Peter Cushing were filmed in two days.
• Filming began in April 1972 and lasted 24 days, and just 15 weeks later the film appeared in cinemas.
• Arthur Grant was supposed to be the cinematographer for this film, but three weeks before filming he learned he was incurably ill and left the project. He was replaced by Dennis N. Coop.
• In an interview, Richard Todd said he regretted appearing in this film.
• Vermicelli was used as the robots' innards.
• Spike Milligan could have played a role in this film, but left the project before filming began, and the role went to Jeffrey Bayldon.
• In the scene where the tailor's landlord holds the rent book, it appears in the other hand after a shot change.
• In the first story, when showing the moving parts of a dismembered corpse, you can notice two right hands. One crawls across the floor, and the other towards Bonnie's face.
• In the shot where Bonnie is chased by a severed hand, one of the crew members can be seen holding the hand and making it move.