If you're in the mood to lose your mind for a few hours, here's our ranked list of the best horror movies set in haunted hospitals or insane asylums. There are a lot of scary movies about asylums, so help us determine the best ones by voting your favorite hospital horror films on this list up or down.
Good scary movies that take place in mental wards, asylums, institutions, or abandoned psychiatric hospitals include The Jacket, Stonehearst Asylum, and The Ninth Configuration. Some of the main characters in these asylum horror movies are actual patients in a mental ward, like in 2018's Unsane. Other films on this list, like Wrong Turn 4: Bloody Beginnings, see a group of people having to spend the night in an abandoned mental hospital.
What is your favorite scary movie about an asylum or mental hospital? Vote the horror movies about mental asylums on this list up or down to help your favorite scary asylum movies get to the top of the list.
If you enjoy this genre of horror, check out our list of the scariest movies about evil doctors too!
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357116Session 9
Josh Lucas, David CarusoReleased: 2001
Directed by: Brad Anderson
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23387Grave Encounters
Alex Sander, Merwin MondesirReleased: 2011
Directed by: Stuart Ortiz, Colin Minihan
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19775Halloween II
Jamie Lee Curtis, Dana CarveyReleased: 1981
Directed by: Rick Rosenthal
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21095Stonehearst Asylum
Kate Beckinsale, Ben KingsleyReleased: 2014
Directed by: Brad Anderson
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17674Gothika
Halle Berry, Robert Downey Jr.Released: 2003
Directed by: Mathieu Kassovitz
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12457The Uninvited
Elizabeth Banks, Emily BrowningReleased: 2009
Directed by: Thomas Guard, Charles Guard
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10848Fragile
Calista Flockhart, Elena AnayaReleased: 2005
Directed by: Jaume Balagueró
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5115Eli
Charlie Shotwell, Lili TaylorReleased: 2019
Directed by: Ciaran Foy
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10771The Ward
Amber Heard, Lyndsy FonsecaReleased: 2010
Directed by: John Carpenter
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12892The Jacket
Adrien Brody, Keira KnightleyReleased: 2005
Directed by: John Maybury
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9164Grave Encounters 2
Richard Harmon, Leanne LappReleased: 2012
Directed by: John Poliquin
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4321Unsane
Claire Foy, Joshua LeonardReleased: 2018
Directed by: Steven Soderbergh
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8567The Fourth Kind
Milla Jovovich, Elias KoteasReleased: 2009
Directed by: Olatunde Osunsanmi
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3412Fractured
Sam Worthington, Lily RabeReleased: 2019
Directed by: Brad Anderson
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7462Wrong Turn 4: Bloody Beginnings
Tenika Davis, Kristen HarrisReleased: 2011
Directed by: Declan O'Brien
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5542Asylum
Charlotte Rampling, Britt EklandReleased: 1972
Directed by: Patrick Magee, Roy Ward Baker
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5346The Eye
Angelica Lee, Candy LoReleased: 2002
Directed by: Oxide Pang Chun, Danny Pang Phat
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5656Deadgirl
Candice Accola, Shiloh FernandezReleased: 2008
Directed by: Marcel Sarmiento, Gadi Harel
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111A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
Patricia Arquette, Laurence FishburneReleased: 1987
Directed by: Chuck Russell
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3837Visiting Hours
William Shatner, Michael IronsideReleased: 1982
Directed by: Jean-Claude Lord
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6475Dr. Giggles
Larry Drake, Holly Marie CombsReleased: 1992
Directed by: Manny Coto
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4956Death Tunnel
Yolanda Pecoraro, Annie BurgstedeReleased: 2005
Directed by: Philip Adrian Booth
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51Hellbound: Hellraiser II
Doug Bradley, Ashley LaurenceReleased: 1988
Directed by: Tony Randel
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51The Exorcist III
George C. Scott Ed Flanders Jason Miller Scott Wilson Nicol Williamson Brad DourifReleased: 1990
Directed by: William Peter Blatty
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4155Madhouse
Natasha Lyonne, Lance HenriksenReleased: 2004
Directed by: William Butler
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