Starring Jim Sturgess, Kate Beckinsale and Ben Kingsley, 'Stonehearst Asylum' has a macabre feel but lacks the fear factor.

(15) Brad Anderson, 110 mins Starring: Kate Beckinsale, Jim Sturgess, Ben Kingsley

Jim Sturgess and Kate Beckinsale star in Brad Anderson's latest outing about a mental hospital teetering toward mayhem

Never quite sure whether it’s aiming for suspense, absurdism, romance, or something else, the pic simply tries for everything in half-hearted fashion, ending up neither sufficiently plausible or fantastical.

If you accept 'Stonehearst Asylum's' grandly Gothic insanity, there’s a lot of fun to be had.

In the wake of the ostentatious atmospherics summoned by the likes of Shutter Island and American Horror Story: Asylum, the film feels unnecessarily restrained.

A descent into insanity based on a story by Edgar Allan Poe.

Starring Jim Sturgess, Kate Beckinsale and Ben Kingsley, 'Stonehearst Asylum' has a macabre feel but lacks the fear factor.

You don’t have to be mad to work here...“I’ve always been fascinated with the troubled mind”, says Jim Sturgess’ turn-of-the-century ‘alienist’, Edward

In the first scene of the gothic bash “Stonehearst Asylum,” a doctor played by Brendan Gleeson gasses on about “the classic symptoms of the chronic hysteric.” He may as well be talking about the madhouse genre itself, in addition to the fraught young woman on display, Eliza, played by Kate Beckinsale.Based on Edgar Allan Poe’s […]