Review – Sanitarium (2013)

This anthology piece – bracketed with some mental hospital filler featuring Malcolm McDowell – proves to be highly predictable. That’s at least in part because the first segment features an artist with an insane fixation on the dolls he creates (when was the last time you saw something original done with evil dolls?) and the second is uncomfortably close to the abusive-parent-versus-imaginary-monster bit from Tales from the Hood (not that the twist was exactly new even back in 1995). The trio finishes up with a guy-in-a-bomb-shelter plot that swiftly wears out its welcome. Though the technical quality is reasonably good, the cliché-ridden script kills the picture. See if desperate