The lunatics have truly taken over the asylum in this notorious slice of 1970's exploitation horror. In the isolated Stephens Sanatorium for the criminally insane the patients are allowed to move freely - until one of them takes an axe to Dr. Stephens. When a young nurse arrives to take up her new job she finds the strange assortment of psychotic patients - among them a child like lobotomised bulk a nymphomaniac a schizophrenic judge with an axe fetish and a cackling old woman - are allowed to live out their violent delusions under Dr. Stephens replacement. Soon nurse Charlotte is discovering the real madness within the asylums walls as the patients are hacked chopped slashed and stabbed by a violent killer who hides in the shadows.
Jack Barnes a tall handsome Texan once was part of a foiled bank raid and now works as a security guard in a sleepy Texas border town bank. His boss Ed asks Jake to moonlight and spy on his sultry and very sexy wife Rosalita who Ed suspects is fooling around. Ed owns the bank and is not adverse to handling a little money laundering for a drug cartel. He is expecting another money drop soon millions of dollars in unmarked bills that must be stored in his bank before being smuggled over the border. One evening Jack is crossing back over the border after a passionate liaison with his lover Rosalita when in the dark street he almost runs down Kristen a heart stopping blonde who tells him she has fought with her boyfriend and needs help. Kristen is really a set up. She is controlled by Barry a ruthless and violent man who has been following the drug money and is planning on robbing the bank the night the drop is made.
Blood gore and violence..... Nurse Charlotte Beale arrives at an isolated sanitarium to embark on her recently acquired full-time position only to learn that Dr. Stephens has been murdered by one of the patients. And that Dr. Geraldine Masters has been left in charge. This doctor is not so keen on having Charlotte work there. The new nurse finds her position increasingly difficult as patients harass her at every turn and Dr. Masters is not who she first appears to be....
In an experimental hospital for the criminally insane the 'pioneering' director continues to introduce unorthadox methods despite the protestors of an anxious community. In awe of his experiments he allows the inmates to act out their wild and brutal fantasies... slowly but surely the nurse and her patients descend into a dark abyss of sex and death. Who can survive the carnage... where should they look for help? One things for sure... dont look in the basement!
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