Instant Favorite.

This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

What can you say about a film in which you can hear the director call "Cut"? This should give one a taste for how the film is put together. The editing is off. The sound is off (notice the foley work that does not match the actions on screen). The work is like a working print, rather than a polished film.

obviously doesn't understand about mind-trip movies. This movie was completely awesome and the suspense and visual mastery of this movie is superb. A 6 thumbs up!!! (me and 2 of my friends.) Watch this movie...watch it lots...

I first saw this film a few years ago when I was viewing Dom d Louise's early works, and became interested in other actors who had once had their names written in the stars, but were now little more than B-vehicle and up-staged stars of bad sit-coms.Malcolm, of course, was one of the first to make the leap from a rather desperate film career to mediocre sit-com, and has since been followed by such lights as: Cybil Shepherd (Cybil), Joan Cusak (Joan), Bette Midler (Bette), and Courtney Cox (Friends).I hadn't realised this was his first film sporting the future-villain hair-style, but this only adds to the value of my ex-rental copy of the film.Much has been said of the camera work in this film, as a sort of a chart of a man's descent into madness, but few people mention the shot that, I feel, is the key to the entire film. When one of the patients exposes himself to a nurse, we get a - filmically - rare penis POV. I have never seen such a thing attempted in a movie, and if you add this to the tremendous whirling tracking-shots, you end up with a film that I think proves beyond doubt that Scorsese owes more to Winkler than he dares reveal.Brilliant, and standing up to multiple viewings, I have seen it several times, and truly covet my copy of this obscure American classic.BTW, watch out for the genuinely "disturbing" scene, after the closing credits, where Malcolm "interferes" with the camera, raising all sorts of philosophical questions on the nature of madness, the truth of film, and Crossing The Line (on several levels). Once again, Brilliant!

Listen to me. I must say that this movie was absolutely horrible. I had no idea what the point of this entire movie was! It starts with this incredibly stupid scene with the "doctor" injecting his patients, knocking them out to "experiment with them". It all takes place in an insane asylum. Eventually, the doctor gets this patient that is "attractive". He decides to "experiment" on her. Well, he ends up killing her. She was DEAD! And then the rest of the movie, her "ghost" haunts this doctor. I usually don't write to describe movies like this. But I feel it is my solemn duty to warn you NEVER to waste your time with this unimaginably horrible film. If you are watching this film to see the actor Malcolm McDowell, who is a fabulous actor, you are wasting your time. Go see A Clockwork Orange, a much better Malcolm McDowell film, MUCH better. Please, skip this awful movie. Start a petition in your community to have this movie burned and anyone who disagrees locked up. God be with anyone who decides to watch this movie despite my imminent warnings.