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Release year: 2001

Storyline

An amnesiac awakens in an asylum for the criminally insane and must find answers as those around him die one by one.

Top credits

Directors

Jeremy Kasten

Writers

Rogan Russell Marshall

Cast

Andras Jones — Trevor Blackburn
Seth Green — Douglas
Jeffrey Combs — Dr. Ek
Wendy Robie — Dr. Thalama

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Did you know

• In one scene Seth Green's character Douglas must deliver a five-page monologue about paranoia to Andras Jones' bewildered Trevor. Director Kasten felt that the only way to express the scene's complexities was to shoot the monologue in one continuous shot, moving constantly throughout the ballroom-sized game room in circles. Kasten rehearsed Green for three days in the room where they would be shooting; pulling Green on a predetermined path through the room and slowly increasing the tempo on a metronome.

• In keeping with Kasten's vision for off-kilter hyper realism, the hospital location was exactly that; an abandoned hospital in Downey, California.

• Many of the effects, including the self-igniting match, had to be devised as practical, theatrical or in-camera effects.

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