Escaped mental patient movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant escaped mental patient movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out suspense, suspenseful, scary, psychological, slasher and serious films and TV shows about / with escaped mental patient, murder, mental institution, mental illness, danger, blood, survival, supernatural, serial killer and isolation plots mostly in Horror, Thriller and Drama genres shot in USA, Canada, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as escaped mental patient: Alone in the Dark (1982), The Last Slumber Party (1988), Leatherface (2017), The Darkroom (2006), Alive and Kicking (2021), The Funhouse Massacre (2015), Shutter Island (2010), Sorority House Massacre (1986), Yellowknife (2002), The Last House (2015).
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List of escaped mental patient movies
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A quartet of murderous psychopaths break out of a mental hospital during a power blackout and lay siege to their doctor's house.
Style:
slasher, scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot:
home invasion, maniac, murder, family in danger, psychopath, insanity, mental illness, mother daughter relationship, serial killer, eccentricity, husband wife relationship, father daughter relationship ...
Time:
80s, year 2016
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
On their last day of high school, Linda, Tracy and Chris celebrate by having a slumber party at Linda's house. A few boys drop by and the beer flows like wine. Just good, clean, fun-loving kids. But the girls have another visitor, one they ...
Style:
slasher, suspense, scary, rough, disturbing ...
Plot:
murder, escaped mental patient, maniac, doctor, nightmare, teenager, revenge, serial killer, hysteria, characters killed one by one, swimming pool, blood ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A young nurse is kidnapped by a group of violent teens who escape from a mental hospital and take her on the road trip from hell. Pursued by an equally deranged lawman out for revenge, one of the teens is destined for tragedy and horrors that will ...
Style:
slasher, perverse, psychotronic, suspense, brutal ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
serial killer, maniac, chainsaw, revenge, chainsaw murder, mental institution, kidnapping, rage, torture, crime spree, psycho killer, disturbed individual ...
Time:
60s, year 1965, 1950s, year 1955, 50s
Place:
texas, southern usa
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
A teenage boy befriends an escapee from a mental institution who sees visions of horrible murders being committed.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, realistic, scary, psychological ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, murder, mentally unstable, confined, danger, gory, haunted by the past, mental illness, mental institution, escaped mental patient, nypd, escape ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: Spain
TV show
Story:
'Los Espabilados' tells the story of Mickey L'Angelo, Guada, Yeray, Lucas and Samuel, a group of extraordinary young people who escape from a psychiatric center in search of their place in the world. Despite their clinical diagnoses, ...
Style:
psychological, sincere, captivating, humorous, light ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
friendship, road trip, runaway, disease, friends, escapades, mental illness, escaped mental patient, society, youth, mentally unstable, two brothers ...
Place:
spain, italy
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Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Six of the worlds scariest psychopaths escape from a local Asylum and proceed to unleash terror on the unsuspecting crowd of a Halloween Funhouse whose themed mazes are inspired by their various reigns of terror.
Style:
slasher, sadistic, horror comedy, brutal, suspenseful ...
Plot:
halloween, psychopath, killer clown, escaped mental patient, cannibalism, amusement park, murder, trapped, mental institution, holiday horror, violence, torture ...
Place:
columbus ohio
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by his troubling visions and also by a mysterious doctor.
Style:
psychological, surprise ending, twist ending, suspense, confusing ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, adult
Plot:
twists and turns, plot twist, investigation, mental illness, insanity, psychology, memory, paranoia, mental institution, schizophrenia, psychiatrist, mental patient ...
Time:
1950s, year 2010, year 1954, 1940s, year 1945 ...
Place:
iran, persia, america, boston
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
A little girl's brother kills the whole family but her (she escapes by hiding in the basement). He is committed, and she grows up with a new family, eventually going to college, where she joins a sorority. Due to a memory block, she ...
Style:
slasher, creepy, bloody, cult classic, scary ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
psychic power, blood, serial killer, mass murder, massacre, murder, repressed memory, college student, female nudity, campus, gory, supernatural ...
Time:
80s, year 1986
Place:
los angeles
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
The film tells the story of three couples on the road between the Atlantic coast and the Northwest Territories in Canada.
Style:
erotic, disturbing, psychological, captivating, gay cinema
Plot:
on the road, murder, making love, sex scene, tragic event, escaped mental patient, travel, couple relations, sexual relations, couples, relationships, relationship problems ...
Place:
canada
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
After his girlfriend is kidnapped by a satanic trio of escaped mental patients, a young man must rescue her from a Hollywood home before their sadistic plans can be realized.
Style:
suspenseful, mockumentary, scary, independent film, dark ...
Plot:
satanist, kidnapping, escaped mental patient, handgun, folk horror, fear, supernatural horror, profanity, witch, forest, american horror, videotaping ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
While serving time for insanity at a state mental hospital, implacable rabble-rouser, Randle Patrick McMurphy inspires his fellow patients to rebel against the authoritarian rule of head nurse, Mildred Ratched.
Style:
psychological, serious, thought provoking, dramatic, emotional ...
Audience:
family friendly, date night, teen drama, adult
Plot:
mental institution, mental illness, fighting the system, freedom, human spirit, insanity, society, mental patient, mental disorder, nurse, psychiatrist, schizophrenia ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, year 1975, year 1963
Place:
oregon, eastern europe, america, persia
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Stina a single mother has fallen on hard times. When she has hit rock bottom she is offered a job on a reality horror show, with the promise of a million dollars to the winner. The group of contestants are taken to the deep woods where they must ...
Style:
slasher, psychotronic, suspenseful, scary, disturbing ...
Plot:
serial killer, masked killer, murder, game, competition, stalking, maniac, escaped mental patient, police, forest, psychopath, violence ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A group of urban researchers set about exploring an abandoned psychiatric hospital with a terrible history, but are they prepared for the horrifying, possibly supernatural secrets hidden within its crumbling walls? No sooner do they get there than ...
Style:
slasher, suspenseful, serious, scary, rough ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
psychopath, mental institution, masked killer, survival, danger, confined, isolation, characters killed one by one, escaped mental patient, abandoned hospital, female nudity, bare breasts ...
Time:
21st century
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Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
J.D. returns to his hometown many years after leaving Carrie at the altar. After their unhappy reunion, J.D. heads to California, only to soon fall for a woman he helps with her broken down car. Little does he know that this woman is a serial ...
Style:
independent film, serious, realistic, slasher, scary ...
Plot:
serial killer, woman with a gun, sheriff, mental patient, fbi, femme fatale, murder, strong female presence, special agent, danger, chases and races, stalking ...
Time:
90s
Place:
usa, texas
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Five years ago, Christine went after the baby she gave up for adoption, claiming he'd been stolen, and wound up killing Alex Williams' wife and the baby the Williams' had adopted. Now, Alex has remarried to a woman with a young son ...
Style:
tension, psychological thriller, suspense, psychological horror, noir
Plot:
revenge, adoption, escaped mental patient, mental illness, murder, stalker, female antagonist, trauma, protective parent, cat and mouse, domestic violence, home invasion ...
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 58 min.
Story:
When a dangerous patient escapes confinement in a mental asylum and goes on a rampant killing spree, the night shift staff face their worst nightmare, as they fight for survival.
Style:
tense, suspense, dark, intense, psychological horror ...
Plot:
serial killer, fear, mental institution, terror, survival, psychiatric patient, escaped mental patient, hospital, violence, isolation, escape, panic ...
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
After an escaped mental patient takes possession and care of a mysterious mountain motel, what was once a place for rest and relaxation becomes a place of nightmares.
Style:
scary, suspense, creepy, dark, confusing ...
Plot:
locked in a room, escaped mental patient, psychopath, trap, terror, motel, murder, plot twist, brainwashing, male protagonist, profanity, trapped ...
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Genre: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A psychologist becomes obsessed with the disappearance of his young patient, and the menacing owl-headed figure that plagued her nightmares.
Style:
gothic, scary, twist ending, mystical, suspenseful ...
Plot:
folk horror, murder, split personality, survival, brutality, dissociative identity disorder, mental illness, girl, hostage, fear, blood, ghost ...
Place:
scotland, united kingdom, europe, scottish highlands
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 66 min.
Story:
Bubba is back. And this time, its PERSONAL. Erik Anthony Russo joins the mix for film 6 of the MM franchise.
Style:
slasher, independent film, suspense, scary, rough ...
Plot:
maniac, homicidal maniac, psychopath, serial killer, murder, masked killer, psycho killer, killing, killer on the loose, masked villain, holiday horror, paranormal ...
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
When a film crew moves into an abandoned psychiatric hospital with a shadowy past to shoot a low budget horror film, they get more than they bargained for. The late nights and lack of sleep begin to take a toll, and the longer this crew works, the ...
Style:
slasher, serious, scary, suspenseful, offbeat ...
Plot:
haunted house, haunted, hospital, supernatural, psychiatric ward, filmmaking, danger, gory, mental institution, zombie, past, medical ...
Time:
21st century
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Genre: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story:
Set within a hospital, located on the outskirts of town, mysterious phenomenons occur in sequence around a nurse. The nurse is suspected as the cause for some horrible cases and finds herself in danger.
Style:
mystical, psychological, suspense, disturbing, twist ending ...
Plot:
supernatural, nurse, hospital, supernatural horror, split personality, twists and turns, mental illness, mental disorder, girl, escaped mental patient, doctors and patients, hostage ...
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Malcom McDowell, Lou Diamond Phillips and Robert Englund star in three separate stories set in an eerie mental asylum.
Style:
psychological, anthology, serious, suspenseful, psychological thriller ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
mental illness, losing-it hero, mental institution, hospital, psychiatric ward, mental disorder, illness, psychological trauma, danger, mentally unstable, doctors and patients, doll ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Horror
Country: Japan
Story:
Mizuki, a female doctor working at a certain hospital, is immersed in the treatment of Aimi, a high school girl infected with SDX (Viral and Sexually Sensitive Disease). During the treatment, Mizuki realizes that SDX is artificially made. However, ...
Style:
thrilling, psychological, scary, twist ending, suspenseful ...
Plot:
sexy nurse, sexual harassment, doctors and patients, women, escaped mental patient, brutality, psychiatric ward, hospital, isolation, meme, blood, madhouse ...
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Scooby-Doo and the gang team up with their pals, Bill Nye The Science Guy and Elvira Mistress of the Dark, to solve this mystery of gigantic proportions and save Crystal Cove!
Style:
feel good, entertaining, light, enigmatic, captivating ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, horror for children
Plot:
halloween, scooby doo, riddles and clues, clue, friends, holiday horror, dead teenager, friendship, sadistic psychopath, evil man, small town, gory ...
Time:
2020s
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
After being diagnosed with Dementia, an elderly war veteran is forced by his estranged family to hire a live-in nurse, only to find she harbors a sinister secret.
Style:
psychological horror, scary, psychological thriller, psychotronic, suspenseful ...
Plot:
revenge, vietnam veteran, stroke, stalker, teenager, military, mental illness, medical, hospital, torture, vietnam war, illness ...
Place:
usa
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
A young couple looking to rekindle a damaged relationship retreat to the remote Scottish Highlands. They are haunted by their past, their surroundings and each other.
Style:
mystic, surprise ending, suspenseful, psychological, mystical ...
Plot:
nightmare, babies and infants, mental institution, officer, abortion, hiking, psychiatric hospital, mountain, killing, trailer home, hospital, mental disorder ...
Place:
highlands
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Brazil
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A young physician coordinating the transfer of patients between state-run hospitals in the city of Rio de Janeiro struggles with a mystery: a patient goes missing one night and completely disappears from the system. As the doctor attempts to find ...
Style:
gothic horror, gothic, psychological, captivating, psychedelic ...
Plot:
terror, hospital, fear, murder, doctors and patients, split personality, chase, hostage, mentally unstable, disappearance, mental institution, dissociative identity disorder ...
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
After a fifteen-year-old is brutally beaten up by High School bullies, his wish for revenge unknowingly unleashes the Terror of Halloween.
Style:
christmas horror, psychotronic, rough, brutal, slasher ...
Plot:
halloween, holiday horror, bullying, pumpkin, dead teenager, masked killer, drug use, dysfunctional family, supernatural horror, monster, bully, revenge ...
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
"In an asylum, patients were subjected to watching horror films for psychiatric study... but they all went mad and now those films have been unearthed!" claims the product description. In reality, the "story" is told with silly ...
Style:
anthology, atmospheric, suspense, suspenseful, psychological ...
Plot:
driven mad, psychiatric ward, research, doctors and patients, twists and turns, split personality, ghost, madhouse, mysticism, murder, survival, brutality ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
When an acclaimed music producer goes off his medication for schizophrenia, his friends chase him though the LA music scene to help commit him to a psychiatric hospital, revealing the troubling inadequacies of the mental health care system.
Style:
realistic, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, touching ...
Plot:
songwriter, schizophrenia, record producer, medication, mental disorder, music industry, mental illness, friendship, help, music, musician's life, schizophrenic ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles
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