Someone likes horror films about mysterious (or not so) bloody reprisals, while someone prefers mysticism. Someone like outright trash or slashers, and many like comedies with a noir touch.
About patients and maniacs
One of the common directions of the genre is the horrors of a psychiatric hospital. The famous franchises about Freddy Krueger and Mike Myers also could not do without this topic. The action of the film "Halloween 2" from the town where Myers sister lives (the debut of the famous Jamie Lee Curtis took place in the first part of the cycle) is transferred to the clinic for the mentally ill. The maniac himself spent many years in such an institution, and the horrors of a psychiatric hospital are mere trifles for him, he is not afraid to return to his almost native walls. The third part of “Nightmares on Elm Street” with the subtitle “Sleep Warriors” almost all takes place in the walls of the hospital for inappropriate teens. Kristin gets there, whom the cute Freddy chases in a dream. Together with her and her subconscious, he moves to peaceful wards for the time being and begins reprisal against the guys. Real horrors about a psychiatric hospital begin ! A lover of hats and striped jackets is very inventive in choosing the execution for his victims. The film starred the very young Patricia Arquette and the young Lawrence Fishburne.
About ghosts and more
The heroes of the House of Night Ghosts (including the characters of Oscar-winning Jeffrey Rush and sexy Famke Janssen) turned out to be in completely different circumstances. But they, too, could tell a lot about the "horrors of a psychiatric hospital." The hospital has long been closed, although the spirits of its former inhabitants, who suffered terrible torment, did not leave these walls. It was they who became victims of doctor-savvy doctors who would confuse the souls of the participants in the party gathered on the occasion of the birthday of the wife of millionaire Stephen Price. However, for some reason, those who were not waiting for the visit came at all ...
Horror films about psychiatric hospitals are also “Gothic” by Mathieu Kassovitz with Holly Berry as a doctor, who herself in a strange way becomes a patient of the clinic, and someone's restless souls haunt her. And the “Jacket” is the story of Starks (Adrian Brody) returning from the Persian Gulf , accused of killing a policeman and imprisoned in a psychiatric hospital for examination. And Scorsese's Island of the Damned: in this film, the hospital is an island for mentally abnormal killers. The roles of the FBI agents who were brought here by the urgent matter - Leonardo DiCaprio with Mark Ruffalo, were played by eminent sir Ben Kingsley and Max von Zyudov.
The most terrible horror
“Boogeyman 2”, one of the parts of HellRaiser, several not very memorable films with the uncomplicated, but so-called “nuthouse” - and this is also the horrors of a mental hospital. The list would be incomplete if not to mention the picture, which is not considered a horror movie, but is regarded as a drama. But for many, “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest” is the most terrible horror movie on this subject (may readers forgive this tautology). The story told by Milos Forman in this film is about how monstrous permissiveness can be. As it takes on even more terrible outlines, if it is inherent in a person whose profession is charity itself. This is a nightmare squared, so to speak. Jack Nicholson is excellent , who played the main character, in general, a harmless fool trying to hide behind the walls of the "psychiatrist" in order to avoid prison. However, what will be his disappointment when he encounters a dictate - much worse than any prison (because we are talking about sick people) - from the side of nurse Ratched. Both actors - both Nicholson and Louise Fletcher - were awarded well-deserved Academy Awards. In total, the film received five of them - in the most important and prestigious nominations, the second time in the history of cinema.