Review of Sanitarium

Sanitarium (2013)
7/10
Why Such Low Opinions?
12 November 2016
Warning: Spoilers
I don't think this movie is half as bad as the rating seems to conclude. Yes, it is your typical anthology horror, but there's at least one common thing about all the stories it tells. All the stories are related to that of the mental patients, and how they got to the looney bin in the first place. So I give it credit for staying on track.

This may sound weird, but this film had a fairy-tale affect on me. All of the horror stories gave me that sense for some reason. Each story had it's own horror characters and beasts (A huge demon disguised as this massive looking man and dolls that get into this guys head and eventually come to life). The characters kind of play a part in that feeling as well. It's actually very unique in a way, and keeps your attention.

The movie will go through all of the patients stories, and reveal how they all got messed up in the head. In one of them, for example, the "huge" demon I mentioned before appears to help a little boy who is getting sexually abused by his father. The demon appears and whoops the sh*t out of him. Good, at least that's what I said. This is another reason to associate the fairy tale aura, it's like the demon is his protector and came to rescue him.

Me personally, I don't think this movie is as bad as people have rated it, although everyone is different. I say it's one of those movies you have to watch in order to see if you like it or not, you just can't go off of others opinions on this particular flick. The acting wasn't bad, but not super good either. The script was okay and the dialog was alright. Like I said, watch at your own leisure.
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