Shameless Self Expression

Robert Powell plays a doctor who applies for a job at an insane asylum. Asylum warden Patrick Magee tells him that the job is his so long as he can tell who among a select few of inmates is really the former asylum head, now gone mad. Each patient he meets tells him their story. ‘Frozen Fear’: Richard Todd plays a scheming, cheating husband who kills and chops up his wife so he can be with his mistress (Barbara Parkins). The wife’s body parts stored in the freezer don’t take kindly to this. ‘The Weird Tailor’: A cash-strapped tailor (Barry Morse) accepts a new gig from oddball Peter Cushing to make a suit for his son using a most peculiar material that seems to glow and only working at night. ‘Lucy Comes to Stay’: A disturbed woman (Charlotte Rampling) is released from an asylum to live with her brother (James Villiers). Her friend Lucy (Britt Ekland) turns up to cause homicidal trouble. ‘Mannikins of Horror’: An intense man (Herbert Lom) believes he has the power to will his being ins...

Psychiatrist and college professor Casey Affleck, his realtor wife Michelle Monaghan, and rebellious teen daughter India Eisley are barely communicating. They are still struggling to cope after the tragic car accident death of the couple’s other, younger child a few years earlier. Affleck has a private practice where he treats patients via his own unique methods of empathy and sharing, patients like the troubled Emily Alyn Lind. Lind is currently writing a book about her own mental health struggles. One night, depressed and distraught Lind calls Affleck to tell him that a friend of hers has been killed in a car accident. Affleck is shocked when Lind turns up dead shortly after, the cops ruling it as a suicide. At the scene, Affleck meets Lind’s British-accented brother Sam Claflin, who is obviously emotional at his sister’s sudden demise. He’s about to make Affleck’s life a living hell, while also charming both Monaghan and sullen Eisley.   Did I travel back in time to 1991 or ...