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Asylum
UNITED STATES · 2008

Asylum

David R. Ellis
psychological trauma suicide and grief haunted university family tragedy supernatural horror
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Synopsis

The teenager Madison McBride is traumatized by the loss of her deranged father when she was nine years old and the suicide of her beloved brother Brandon one year ago. She decides to join the Richard Miller University, where Brandon committed suicide, to overcome her demons. While walking to her dorm, she meets the weird janitor Wilbur Mackey that tells her that the place is haunted.

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