In this week's issue, Ben Sachs reviews the old-school gothic thriller Stonehearst Asylum, with Ben Kingsley and Michael Caine; adapted from Edgar Allan Poe's "The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether," it's the tale of a young psychiatrist who arrives at a remote mental hospital to learn that the doctor in charge allows even the most unhinged patients to mingle freely with the hospital staff. The movie opens Friday at South Barrington 30; there are actually 30 screening rooms in this place, which probably makes it more of a madhouse than the one in the movie.…
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