The Dead Pit1989
“They're out.”
Directed by Brett Leonard
The premise
The arrival of an amnesiac patient in a psychiatric hospital somehow frees a mad doctor, who was shot and entombed with his fiendish experiments in an abandoned wing of the asylum 20 years before.
Horror Vault's take
A psychiatric hospital becomes a killing ground when a new amnesiac patient's arrival triggers something sinister lurking beneath the facility — a disgraced doctor sealed away decades ago with the horrifying results of his illegal experiments. The subterranean secrets of the asylum's forgotten wing claw their way back to the surface, blending mad-science dread with undead carnage. Low-budget but ambitious, this late-80s effort delivers practical gore effects and a creepy institutional setting that gets under your skin.
Content: Graphic Violence, Gore, Body Horror, Disturbing Medical Imagery
Cast
Jeremy Slate
Dr. Gerald Swan
Cheryl Lawson
Jane Doe
Stephen Gregory Foster
Christian Meyers
Danny Gochnauer
Dr. Colin Ramzi
Geha Getz
Sister Clair
Joan Bechtel
Nurse Kygar
Mara Everett
Nurse Robbins
Jack A. Sunseri
Head Orderly Jensen
Shanna McCullough
Featured Dead (as Marcia Gray) / Body Double
Michael Jacobs
ud Higgins
Michael Jacobs
Bud Higgins
Randall Fontana
Orderly Jimmy
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