Madhouse After Dark 12 Asylum Horror Movies Public Domain DVD Collection

Madhouse After Dark 12 Public Domain Asylum Horror Movies DVD Collection

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MADHOUSE AFTER DARK
12 Classic Asylum & Insanity Horror Movies
Public Domain DVD Collection

FEATURES

• Twelve full-length classic horror movies
• Films spanning the silent era through the 1970s
• Asylums, sanitariums, escaped patients and sinister doctors
• Gothic mysteries and psychological horror
• Includes Lon Chaney, Conrad Veidt, Vincent Price and John Carradine
• Approximately 15½ hours of entertainment
• Region Free DVD presentation
• Includes collector cover artwork

STORY SUMMARY

The doors are locked. The doctors cannot be trusted. The patients may already be in control.

Madhouse After Dark gathers 12 chilling motion pictures exploring cinema’s darkest visions of sanitariums, institutional confinement and psychological terror.

Journey from the distorted nightmare world of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and the haunting imagery of A Page of Madness to isolated hospitals, escaped patients, murderous psychiatrists and vengeful former inmates.

Spanning more than five decades of horror history, this collection combines silent-era expressionism, old-dark-house mysteries, Gothic suspense and disturbing 1970s asylum shockers.

12 MOVIES INCLUDED

1. THE WOMAN IN WHITE (1917)

A mysterious woman escapes from an insane asylum and becomes connected to a sinister conspiracy involving identity, inheritance, deception and an unsuspecting young heiress. This early Gothic mystery is filled with secrets and institutional intrigue.

2. THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI (1920)

A mysterious showman uses a hypnotized sleepwalker to carry out horrifying acts. The mystery leads directly to an insane asylum and a famous final revelation that calls everything the audience has witnessed into question.

Its distorted sets and nightmare imagery helped establish the visual language of psychological horror.

3. THE MONSTER (1925)

Victims become trapped inside an abandoned mental sanitarium controlled by former patients. Among them is a deranged surgeon conducting bizarre experiments within the institution’s hidden rooms.

Lon Chaney stars in this unusual combination of madhouse horror, mystery and macabre comedy.

4. A PAGE OF MADNESS (1926)

An elderly man works as an attendant inside the psychiatric institution where his wife is confined. Memory, grief, delusion and reality collide as he desperately attempts to remain close to her.

This Japanese silent film uses experimental editing and unsettling imagery to portray the fractured perceptions of its characters.

5. THE CAT AND THE CANARY (1927)

Relatives assemble inside an isolated mansion for the reading of a strange will. A nearby asylum reports that a dangerous patient known as The Cat has escaped and may be hiding somewhere inside the house.

Secret passages, disappearing bodies, eerie shadows and ominous warnings turn the gathering into a night of terror.

6. THE GHOST WALKS (1934)

Actors gathered inside an isolated mansion learn that a dangerous patient has escaped from a nearby asylum and entered the house.

Murder, ghostly figures, secret identities and an approaching storm create an evening of mystery, confusion and fear.

7. SHOCK (1946)

After witnessing a murder, a traumatized woman is committed to a private sanitarium. Her psychiatrist is secretly the killer she saw.

With complete control over her treatment, the doctor attempts to convince everyone that her memories are only delusions. The institution becomes a prison where the truth may never be believed.

8. THE SCREAMING SKULL (1958)

A newly married woman with a history of institutionalization arrives at a remote estate and begins experiencing terrifying events connected to her husband’s deceased first wife.

Is something supernatural haunting the property, or is someone deliberately attempting to drive her back toward a psychological breakdown?

9. SILENT NIGHT, BLOODY NIGHT (1972/1974)

A deserted estate with a horrifying history becomes the center of murder and revenge. The property once served as an insane asylum where a violent inmate uprising became part of its bloody past.

As new victims arrive, the horrifying truth behind the institution begins to emerge.

10. DON’T LOOK IN THE BASEMENT! (1973)

Also known as The Forgotten and Death Ward #13.

A young psychiatric nurse accepts a position at an isolated sanitarium shortly after its head doctor is murdered.

The patients have been given unusual freedom, the remaining staff members are behaving strangely and nothing inside the institution is what it appears to be.

11. DR. TARR’S TORTURE DUNGEON (1973)

Also known as The Mansion of Madness.

A visitor arrives at a remote mental institution and discovers that the patients have taken control of the asylum. The real staff members have been imprisoned while the inmates operate their own bizarre system of treatment.

Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe’s The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether, this unusual horror film combines Gothic atmosphere, surrealism and madness.

12. THE BELL FROM HELL (1973)

After being released from a mental institution, a troubled young man returns to confront the relatives responsible for having him committed so they could control his inheritance.

Resentment, manipulation and an elaborate plan for revenge lead toward an increasingly disturbing psychological confrontation.

GENRE

Classic Horror, Asylum Horror, Psychological Horror, Gothic Mystery, Silent Horror and Suspense

FORMAT

12-Movie Public Domain DVD Collection

NOTABLE ACTORS

Florence La Badie, Werner Krauss, Conrad Veidt, Lil Dagover, Lon Chaney, Johnny Arthur, Gertrude Olmsted, Masao Inoue, Laura La Plante, Creighton Hale, John Miljan, June Collyer, Vincent Price, Lynn Bari, Frank Latimore, Peggy Webber, John Hudson, Russ Conway, Patrick O’Neal, Mary Woronov, John Carradine, Rosie Holotik, Bill McGhee, Claudio Brook, Arthur Hansel, Ellen Sherman, Renaud Verley, Viveca Lindfors, Alfredo Mayo and Maribel Martín

DVD SPECIFICATIONS

• Format: Movie Collection
• Media: DVD
• Number of Movies: 12
• Region: Region Free
• Video Standard: NTSC
• Language: English or English-language presentation
• Audio: Mono or silent-film musical accompaniment
• Presentation: Black and White and Color
• Aspect Ratio: 4:3 and original source ratios, depending on film
• Approximate Runtime: 15½ hours
• Rating: Not Rated
• Packaging: Collector cover artwork included

These motion pictures come from archival source materials. Occasional scratches, contrast changes, audio fluctuations or other imperfections may be present. These characteristics are part of the surviving film elements and vintage viewing experience.

DID YOU KNOW?

• The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari became one of the defining films of German Expressionist cinema.

• Lon Chaney gives one of his more unusual horror performances in The Monster, which blends frightening situations with dark comedy.

• A Page of Madness tells much of its story through images, experimental editing and subjective visions rather than conventional dialogue.

• The Cat and the Canary helped establish many of the secret-passage and isolated-mansion elements associated with old-dark-house mysteries.

• Shock features Vincent Price as a psychiatrist attempting to conceal a murder by manipulating the treatment of its only witness.

• The Screaming Skull originally included a theatrical warning offering free burial service to anyone who died from fright while watching the movie.

• Dr. Tarr’s Torture Dungeon was inspired by Edgar Allan Poe’s story about patients taking control of their institution.

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PUBLIC DOMAIN RESEARCH

Every motion picture in this collection has been verified as public domain in the United States through examination of copyright records, renewal records where applicable, publication history and original release information.

The public-domain determination applies to the original motion pictures and the specific public-domain source versions used for this collection. It does not include separately copyrighted restorations, newly recorded musical scores, modern artwork or third-party bonus materials.