THE DEAD PIT ’80s zombies in an asylum – free on YouTube [1080p HD]

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The Dead Pit is a 1989 horror film about a mad doctor, entombed with his fiendish experiments in an abandoned wing of the asylum twenty years before, becomes freed.

The movie was directed by Brett Leonard (Feed; Man-Thing; Hideaway; The Lawnmower Man) from a screenplay co-written with producer Gimel Everett. The production stars Jeremy Slate, Cheryl Lawson and Stephen Gregory Foster.

Plot:
Doctor Ramzi, a medical deviate intent on torturing his patients, is seemingly killed and buried in the basement of a mental health facility.

Twenty years later, the hospital is running again and Jane Doe arrives at the institute. Upon her arrival, a major earthquake rocks the building and unearths the now undead Doctor Ramzi and his legion of zombie patients. Meanwhile, mentally retarded Catholic nuns attempt to exorcise the patients …

“Leonard’s uninvolving psychological horror revels in shock effects and disrupted narrative logic, poured into the tired dreamworld and asylum settings of Nightmare on Elm Street and Hellbound.” Peter Dendle, The Zombie Movie Encyclopedia book

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“This serious attempt at horror never quite hits its mark, evolving into a series of gory laughs, which is what is so endearing about it.” Adam Lukeman, Fangoria’s 101 Best Horror Movies You’ve Never Seen book

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Choice dialogue:
Doctor Ramzi: “I’ve done life, now I’m doing death!”
Christian Mey: “For dead people they sure are smart.”

Cast and characters:
Jeremy Slate … Doctor Gerald Swan
Cheryl Lawson … Jane Doe
Stephen Gregory Foster … Christian Meyers
Danny Gochnauer … Doctor Ramzi
Geha Getz … Sister Clair
Joan Bechtel … Nurse Kygar
Michael Jacobs … Bud Higgins
Mara Everett … Nurse Robbins
Randall Fontana … Orderly Jimmy

Filming locations:
Agnew’s Development Center, Santa Clara, California
Granett/Rideout Engineering’s Special Effects Studio, Santa Cruz, California

Production:
The film’s reported budget was a mere $350,000.

Notes:
The recreational room in which Jane meets Chris is the same location that punk rock band Green Day shot their music video for ‘Basket Case’.

Trailer:

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