10 Underrated Movies (That Were Just Misunderstood)

Stonehearst Asylum is loosely based on the 1845 short story 'The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether' by Edgar Allen Poe. It's a true love letter to the gothic era.

Entertaining with a stab of dark humour, this film keeps you on the edge of your seat as you continuously wonder what could possibly come next. Set in a Victorian Asylum, nothing is what you expect it to be. The film follows the everyday life of the patients and doctors until an unexpected doctor comes to the door, and one by one all the dark secrets start to rise to the surface.

Critics have christened Stonehearst Asylum as a missed opportunity, calling its tone flat and uneven. Many have cited it as more of a dark comedy rather than a horror film. But this is not a flat out pee your pants kind of film, it's more of a slow-burning mystery that leads right up to the pivotal and entertaining climax. It toys with your head, intending to make you question what is real and what is not. This film won't force you to cower behind the sofa in fear, but it will give you something exciting and provocative that will have you thinking about it for days and days afterward.

Throughout the film, questions are constantly forced into your head - ones that you need the answers to. You feel real sympathy for the asylum patients, a sense of desperation to their plight.

As for the twist at the end, it'll make you fall off your couch.