zarakian Anything with Michael Caine, Ben Kingsley is well worth watching and indeed for most of the film it is exactly that. A good setting in a 19th century asylum run by a sadistic doctor. Enter our hero shove in a soppy romance. Add in a stuttering finale, throw in a sting in the tail and then spoil it all by an ending straight from a mediocre rom-com. If only they had read the script before filming and thought of what they could have done. So a good try worth watching but fatally flawed in the end.

mikedegroot I just came across this movie and I really enjoyed it. Great story, solid twists, decent cast, and quality production. It is what it is, a PG13 Hollywood horror mystery.

zkonedog A movie like "Stonehearst Asylum" is a mystery to me...not only for its content, but also for the fact that it is known by so few people. It didn't get a major theater release (did it come to any theaters at all?) despite having a great story and an excellent cast.For a basic plot summary, this movie takes place at an insane asylum just as the 19th century is turning into the 20th. A young doctor by the name of Edward Newgate (Jim Sturgess) is finishing his medical training in the study of the insane, and desperately needs some clinical observation and experience. As such, he arrives at Stonehearst and is mentored by the chief doctor of the facility (played by Ben Kingsley). Edward also is rather taken with a female patient named Eliza Graves (Kate Beckinsale), who has seizures at the touch of a man. As Edward begins his rounds, however, he starts to discover that Stonehearst holds a number of secrets that his trainer may not be totally revealing of...especially the people locked in the cellar.I wish I could say more about "Stonehearst Asylum", but (much like, say, "Shutter Island"), it is the type of movie that you don't want spoiled before you view it. It isn't quite in my "favorites of all-time" category, but it more than held my interest and was very much an enjoyable experience to watch. A mystery that also examines the treatment of the mentally insane during that time period, as well as plenty of adventure to keep the plot moving.I will say this about "Stonehearst", however: DO NOT give up on it before the very end. It is the type of movie that you won't fully understand until the credits roll after the final scene. You just have to use a little patience in that regard. There may be things along the way that you don't understand or that seem too strange to be true, but trust me in that everything is worked out in the end.Overall, "Stonehearst Asylum" is a very solid movie that I can't, for the life of me, understand why it didn't at least get a decent theater release. Perhaps because it doesn't appeal to a "specific target audience" (in my mind, one of the BEST aspects of predicting a good film). It's a shame, as many people would enjoy this film if they only knew it existed!

Eddie Cantillo StoneHearst Asylum(2014) Starring: Jim Sturgess, Kate Beckinsale, Ben Kingsley, Michael Caine, Brendan Gleeson, David Thewlis, Jason Flemyng, Sinéad Cusack, Sophie Kennedy Clark, Guillaume Delaunay, Edmund Kingsley, Christopher Fulford, and Ekaterina Stoyanova Directed By: Brad Anderson Review NO ONE IS WHAT THEY SEEM Hello Kiddies your pal The Crypt-Critic is gone mad, mad of boredom. I don't know about that many asylum movies, the only one I have seen before this was Shutter Island and it's one of my all time favorite movies which also happens to star Ben Kingsley. That one made was well not boring to me but this ugh. A Harvard Medical School graduate takes a position at a mental institution and soon becomes obsessed with a female mental patient, but he has no idea of a recent and horrifying staffing change. The Call director Brad Anderson returns to the helm for this psychological thriller loosely based on Edgar Allan Poe's 1845 short story The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether, and centered on the experiences of a Harvard Medical School graduate (Jim Sturgess) who becomes obsessed with a mental patient named Eliza Graves (Kate Beckinsale) while working at a mental asylum that's been taken over by the inmates. It sounds cool in theory but either I should read Edgar Allen Poe's short instead or I'm just oh I don't know insane. The movie is supposed to be a scary thriller but it's narrative is just lost in it's translation at least that's how I felt it was mostly just surrounded with cool name actors who do give a good performances from the likes of Jim Sturgess, Ben Kingsley, Michael Caine and Kate Beckinsale and the production design is pretty okay but that's just it. It's just so okay, that you can't rip into it. Stonehearst Asylum is getting a two and a half out of five.