Review of Disturbed

Disturbed (1990)
5/10
other review is misleading
18 September 2005
Warning: Spoilers
This is really about a sadistic doctor in a mental hospital who rapes his patients. One of these patients commits suicide on visiting day in front of her very young daughter, who later, as an adult, admits herself into the same hospital under the pretense that she has sexual-oriented problems. Really she is just there for revenge. With the help of an orderly who is also disgusted by the doctor's behavior, she sets it up to look like the doctor accidentally murdered her while trying to rape her. Then her "body" mysteriously disappears and reappears despite the doctor's best efforts to conceal his crime. She "haunts" him until he looses his mind and ends up a mental patient himself.

While this is certainly not a masterful film by any means, it's not really that bad, and if you are a big Malcolm McDowell fan you may even love it-- despite the general mediocrity of the movie, he shines. Whoever wrote the other review must have the attention-span of a doorknob. For a B-movie, it's really not that bad at all, and even has some charming and amusing moments (candy-gram, and I'll say no more).
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