10 Most Twisted Asylum Horror Movies

While some of the movies featured here are delicate, slow-burning tales, The Dead Pit is just absolute nucking futs from the get go. In fact, The Dead Pit is the most insane movie on this list - and this is a list that features Freddy Krueger's head coming out of a TV set!

Playing like a slasher movie set within an insane asylum, this 1989 picture starts by introducing us to the genius but bonkers Dr. Ramzi. Putting his patients through brutal tests and experiments as part of his quest to master death, Danny Gochnauer's Ramzi ends up dead and buried in the basement of the mental facility where he carried out his work.

From there, we move 20 years down the line as the amnesia-suffering Jane Doe (Cheryl Lawson) is admitted to the reopened asylum. After an earthquake rocks the building, our Jane starts to see creepy patients emerge from the bowels of the building... but, as is ever the case, nobody particularly believes her.

Once we get the revelation that Jane and her mother had changed their names years prior to escape her deranged father, it's no major surprise to see the totally-not-dead Dr. Ramzi resurface and reveal himself to be the father in question.

Oh, and Ramzi has an army of undead, experimented-on zombies under his charge by this point, too...