Why so much hype?

Fantastic!

This is a tender, generous movie that likes its characters and presents them as real people, full of flaws and strengths.

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

The title "Doom Asylum" should identify that this is not a movie to take seriously. Indeed, it's all about having fun. Every stereotype of a slasher movie that there is, you'll find here. Of course, the movie's main significance nowadays is that it's the film debut of Kristin Davis, best known as Charlotte on "Sex and the City". So, the main thing that I took from this story of a disfigured man inhabiting an abandoned asylum is that Kristin Davis has a fine pair of legs on her. And that the leader of the punk band shows everyone her breasts. It definitely looks like a movie that they had fun filming. You're sure to love it.House of the rising sun indeed!

Kiki's dad died in car accident 10 years ago.His body was taken to local sanitarium and two autopsy performers were killed.Since then this creepy mental hospital becomes the place of brutal murders.After 10 years Kiki is back there to see what happened 10 years past and brings her boyfriend Mike and friends Darrell,Jane and Dennis.There is also a noisy trio of female Goth rock band.And Coroner with an autopsy equipment who promptly starts butchering teenagers whilst spouting unfunny one-liners."Doom Asylum" is an extremely cheesy and tongue-in-cheek slasher spoof with some nasty gore on display.The acting is gloriously wooden,the script is inept and there are some of the silliest moments ever captured on screen.I would recommend this for all fans of truly goofy slasher films.7 coroners out of 10.

Surviving a horrible car accident the survivor settles in an abandoned asylum. Time after the accident, a group of teens sneak into the asylum just to be brutally murdered by the survivor of the mentioned accident. The disfigured and demented man kills his victims using medical instruments in gruesome ways. The lone survivor of these teens (as usual) discovers a terrible secret that has to do with the killer.Awful slasher, poor directed, poorly acted, filled with horrible f/x and makeup. When I picked this trash from the video store I couldn't resist laughing at the cover. I guess I rented it because I wanted to discover what was the deal of the killer. During the movie the killer tries to act like Leatherface, and I say he looks plain stupid. This is not the kind of slasher to watch more than once, it's gory but it isn't entertaining. This slasher's running time is 77 minutes, 15 of the minutes show footage of another unknown crappy movie and commercials the killer watches on his t.v.! You have to watch it to believe it.The asylum is scary, and some of the pretended scares (lamely) worked with such a creepy setting. The lead character is one of the Sex and The City women, so that's the most important fact of this trash.Watch it just once! Surely it won't send shivers up your funny bone, but it will give you something to discuss on a bad horror movies board. 2/10 -After watching it, immediately boot it to the trash can!

Filmed on location at the long-abandoned (and since demolished) Essex County Sanitorium in Verona, NJ. The film boasts some incredibly creepy atmosphere. The asylum itself is the real monster here, enormous, labyrinthine, scarred by neglect and vandalism, and scary even when filmed in broad daylight. This could have been the perfect locale for a low-budget horror classic. Give the producers THAT much credit. All that great scenery is squandered on another witless rundown of '80s slasher cliches. The special effects are nothing special either. As for Essex County Sanitorium, you may have seen some of the smaller buildings were used in episodes of the Sopranos. For a far better, but far from perfect abandoned asylum flick, see Session 9 with David Caruso.