Asylum Blackout (The Incident)
| release date | May 4 2012 |
| studio | IFC Midnight |
| director | Alexandre Courtes |
| writer | Alexandre Courtes, Craig Zahler |
| starring | Rupert Evans, Kenny Doughty, Unax Ugalde, Dave Legeno, Anna Skellern, Richard Brake, Eric Godon, Joseph Kennedy, Marcus Garvey |
| tagline | When the lights go down, the inmates will rise. |
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I think BD underrated this one. As per the review, “It’s also so stupid that the guard asks the cooks to help him wrangle the inmates. I don’t care how short staffed they are in a crisis. The hospital would never go near the liability that suggests towards the non medical employees or the inmates in their care. I guess that become irrelevant once it’s about survival, but it shows an underdeveloped script.” I don’t care about idiosyncrasies like that when I’m watching a film. It needs a certain amount of realism to be believable , and the creepy asylum, the setting, and the acting did the job for me. Was a dull start, with some seriously basic setups, but the characters grew on me, and in the end I was “liking” this movie, although I couldn’t my finger on why. The gore is mediocre, the violence is decent, all the while not being over the top. I’d give it a 5, but that would indicate indifference. Maybe it doesn’t reeeeally deserve it, but I’m giving this one a 6, just because something about the overall end product of this film experience was enjoyable on a horror level.