Wow. For the life of me, I cannot find anything about this film I liked. With a cast that should have done so much better, we have to lay blame to the awful script and terrible direction. It looked like a made for TV film from the 80s with its soft focus and glaring backlight. It's apparent thriller theme was wanting and any mention of horror or scares is mistaken. I would suspect that this could be used for GCSE media students on how not to make a film.
The Institute
2017
Action / Thriller
The Institute
2017
Action / Thriller
Plot summary
In 19th century Baltimore, a girl stricken with grief from her parents' untimely death voluntarily checks herself into the Rosewood Institute, and is subjected to bizarre and increasingly violent pseudo-scientific experiments in personality modification, brainwashing and mind control; she must escape the clutches of the Rosewood and exact her revenge.
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Interesting film
I am a little curious as to the incredibly low score for this film. It's a much better watch then the reviews would lead you to believe. It is a little muddled in terms of tone, it doesn't quite know what it wants to be, but in terms of its relevance I thought it rather good. During The Victorian Era it was quite commonplace for women to be placed in an Institution, for behaving in a manner that wasn't deemed 'ladylike.' The film is inspired by real life events, and it's definitely worth reading of the events that occurred at The Rosewood Center, which only closed its doors in 2009.
The acting was rather good, Allie Gallerani and Scott Haze, were both excellent I thought. It's almost impossible to spot Pamela Anderson, but she's there. The Nurse was great, so chilling.
Don't watch the trailers, ignore the bad reviews, and give it a chance, it's not brilliant, but it's certainly interesting. 7/10
A joke... don't believe the rating!
This is my first review on IMDb, I created an account solely to vent about this movie. That's your first clue... As an avid fan of all things Horror, Thriller, Dark and Creepy, I was really looking forward to this film... however I was quickly disappointed. The concept of this movie is truthfully a good one, and it could have been great. It was however, poorly executed, the script was lifeless, boring and lacked any kind of depth. I was left laughing at certain points where they quite clearly should have been 'shocking' or 'creepy' but the whole thing felt a lot like I was watching a High School drama performance. The acting was mediocre at best and even with the big star cameos, it left a lot to be desired. The film was full of continuity errors, and generally easily fixed issues which would have added something to the non-existent atmosphere the film created. For example the film is set in the 19th Century, yet in a scene where the female lead is shown topless, you can quite clearly see her bikini tan lines. I'm not just talking a little, I'm talking she's just come back from a 3 week vacation. The 'climactic' scene left me laughing. All in all, don't waste your time - unless your looking for a film to fall asleep to or have a good laugh at then it'll be perfect!!