An Oxford 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.
Acting
Kingsley and Caine trading velvet menace like old pros.
Production
Asylum sets so gorgeous you'll want to go mad there.
Direction
Anderson builds dread through stillness, not shocks.
Director
Brad Anderson
Kate Beckinsale
Eliza Graves
Jim Sturgess
Edward Newgate
David Thewlis
Mickey Finn
Brendan Gleeson
The Alienist
Ben Kingsley
Silas Lamb
Michael Caine
Dr. Benjamin Salt
Sinéad Cusack
Mrs. Pike
Jason Flemyng
Swanwick
Sophie Kennedy Clark
Millie
Christopher Fulford
Paxton
Guillaume Delaunay
Arthur Timbs
Edmund Kingsley
Charles Graves
Robert Hands
Elegant Lady
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Loosely adapted from Poe's 'The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether'—the short story's twist is nearly identical, so Poe spoiled this in 1845.
Anderson also directed Session 9 and The Machinist; this completes his unofficial 'institutions eating people' trilogy.
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