Asylum (U.S. title: House of Crazies) is a 1972 British anthology horror film made by Amicus Productions. The film was directed by Roy Ward Baker and produced by Milton Subotsky. Robert Bloch wrote the script, adapting four of his own short stories. <br /><br />Baker had considerable experience as a director of horror films, having made Quatermass and the Pit and Scars of Dracula. Bloch had written the novel Psycho, on which the film directed by Alfred Hitchcock was based. <br /><br />When Dr. Martin (Robert Powell) goes on a job interview at a British insane asylum, he learns that he must interview the asylum's inmates in order to be considered for the position. Dr. Rutherford (Patrick Magee), who is wheelchair-bound because of an assault by an inmate, tells Dr. Martin that he will consider him for the position if he can discover which of the inmates is Dr. Starr, a former head doctor at the asylum who suffered a nervous breakdown.
