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The Mad Hatter2021

Name: The Mad Hatter
Genre: Psychological, Slasher, Gothic, Survival
Released: 2021-01-29
Rating: 4.3

“We all go mad”

Directed by Catherine Devaney

4.3

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IMDb 2.7TMDB 5.3

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Year

2021

Runtime

90 min

The premise

An eccentric professor takes four of his students to the mansion of the “Mad Hatter”, an urban legend driven insane by mercury poisoning and grief. He says that there’s nothing to worry about now: the strange, shambling “caretakers” that haunt the home are merely servants that have fallen to inbreeding, and the Hatter himself has been dead for years. But as the students start disappearing one by one, those that remain start to question if the professor’s experiment is truly scientific...and if the Hatter didn’t just succumb to his madness, but decided to spread it...

Horror Vault's take

When an eccentric professor leads four students into a decaying mansion tied to the legend of the Mercury-poisoned Mad Hatter, what begins as a scholarly experiment quickly unravels into something far more sinister. The house and its shambling, unsettling inhabitants feel wrong in ways that science struggles to explain. As students begin to vanish, trust erodes and the line between researcher and predator blurs. Rooted in dark fairy-tale logic, this gothic trap of a film asks whether madness is something inherited — or something passed on.

Content: Violence, Threat And Peril, Disturbing Imagery, Themes Of Mental Illness