The first thing I feel like saying about this film is: this is more my kind of film than Interstellar. No mankind coming to an end, no far-fetched theories about deep space travelling, no family drama. In short, life as I know it would not have ended whatever the outcome of the events going on at Stonehearst Asylum.
I will not spoil the film for you. I liked it and I hope everybody will see it just as I have seen it, with curiosity and interest, looking forward to what's next.
It reminded me of another film with the story set in an asylum, both movies having Ben Kingsley playing a psychiatrist. I'm talking about Shutter Island. Yet, I must admit, I liked Shutter Island more. Shutter Island made me want to rent the DVD and go home and watch it again that same evening. I found it unbelievable. Of course, Martin Scorsese.
Bottom line, I believe Stonehearst Asylum to be a little too revealing, but still exciting and full of strange and interesting details. While it has not much to do with the original Edgar Allan Poe story, this film does show in all its horror and inhumanity the way patients diagnosed with mental illness were treated in the past.
It is a creepy and even scary (to a certain extent) film, with interesting developments, suspense and... a love story!
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