(thunder crashes) ♪ One day the devil came to him ♪ ♪ For he was a minor demon ♪ ♪ Asked him to torture some huma ♪ ♪ With his two friends in tow ♪ ♪ Mittens and El Sapo ♪ ♪ The Baron Mondo Von Doren ♪ ♪ On Nightmare Theatre ♪ Look Mittens, let me try to explain this again.

Sibling rivalry is a real and natural th Even the closest brothers and si going to argue and squabble now It's usually most prevalent during childhood when siblings are vying for the attention and love of their parents.

What?

Me?

No.

No.

I was an only My parents recognized perfection when they saw it.

I had no brothers or sisters.

I had a few cousins, but I was clearly the pick of all th And even my aunts and uncles like me more than their own kids But the story I want to tell you is perhaps the greatest and sadd example of a brother turning on Well, no, it wasn't Cain and Abe that was amateur hour compared t And I know during the Civil War, some brothers fought on different sides of the I know some brothers argue viole because some like Pepsi and some Coke, but those are nothing comp what happened once upon a time i It went down like this.

Two brothers who should have loved each other got into a disagreement with two other guys.

What?

I have no idea what they were arguing about.

Maybe it was over, girls, a park maybe even over a seat at the mo or something.

All I know is that things escalated rapidly and the brothers found themselve in a fight for their very lives.

It was a matter of life and deat Mittens.

Each brother had to depend on and fully trust the other one.

If there was even the slightest break in their bon they would surely be beaten down if not killed.

I'm telling you, it was awful.

Luckily, these two brothers were victorio but during the melee, one of the suffered a debilitating leg inju He turned to his brother for a helping hand, a loving sho like you can almost hear the son He ain't heavy.

He's my brother in the backgroun He was looking for a little brotherly love, maybe a shared hug to thank each other for victory.

But that's not what he got.

Mitt That's not what he got at all.

For you see, his brother, his be since childhood, came up and kicked him in his in What?

No.

The brother really attacked his Owen Hart really kicked Bret Har and his injured leg during the m before the 1994 Royal Rumble.

He almost ruined Bret the Hitman wrestling career.

The Owen Hart heel turn was the of the entire planet for a very The UN General Assembly convened and a visibly shaken UN Secretary General assured a worr that things would be okay.

Bill Clinton wept openly in the Oval Office as he begged the brothers to rec what had happened.

I, too, cried for a solid week.

No, no, it was real.

It was real.

I don't care, Sapo told you.

Wrestling and NASCAR are fake.

It was real to me.

Dang it.

The whole Hart family was torn a I felt so badly for Stu Hart and their poor mother.

Their poor, poor mother at that dinner in the Hart house was unp I'll tell you Oh, wait, wait.

We're on.

about the marriage of Elizabeth and the matrimony and Randy Sava Sapo, who says it's all fake cri like a baby during that ceremony Hello and welcome to Nightmare T I am your host, The Baron Mondo And here with me is Mittens The And we're just discussing the gr sibling rivalry of all time.

As we wait for the man, no one would ever feel the need against El Sapo De Tempesto to show up with tonight's movie.

I really am not sure where he co I mean, he ought to be here any He should have been here.

Gracious me.

Here I am, fellas.

Whew man what a night.

What a night I have had.

Oh, rea Yeah.

Yeah.

I'm going to need a minute here.

If you can give me a minute to calm my nerves, to correct my to catch my breath.

I'm sorry.

We really don't have a minute.

You're late as it is.

Well, I was unavoidably detained By whom or by what?

Well, you see, there's a bit of a stor Do you guys want the whole thing do you just want me to hit the h I don't want to hear it at all, but I guess I'll have to.

Oh, no, no, no, no, no.

You're not going anywhere.

Get back over here.

We're in this together.

Joined at the hip.

If I have to hear the story, so Oh, please continue.

Well, you see, I was up to my knees in banana taffy down at the Turkish taffy Oh, okay, stop.

I was down here trying to get us a bucket full o You know, we're not having to pa because, seriously, who can affo those ridiculous taffy store pri So I snuck in the factory, and I climbed into the taffy cooling tank, which is a lot deeper than I thought it was goi I'm here to.

Tell.

All right, just stop.

And it was a struggle because th time was flowing against me.

Hey, what did you guys know?

That taffy had died?

Just like the ocean's on the int Have you ever been in up to your in a taffy rip current?

You've been stuck in that.

Just stop.

See, I was struggling to make it all And then that taffy wave hit me right in the face.

Oh, Ta What Taffy with you?

And I really thought I was a gon there for a minute.

Boy, that would have been an emb way to go.

Wouldn't it be drowning in banan Oh, I'm sure when you do go, it will be something equally rid when you want to get to the poin I was going down for the third t when the security guard or maybe it was guards, I should say, pul and I was really stuck in that s But the good news is, fellas, I made it here in one piece.

A little late, a little sore, a little worse fo But I made it here.

And I'm with you tonight.

You think that's good news?

Because I don't.

I'm guessing we have nothing wha to show tonight, do we, for Taff Well, actually, we do.

One of the firemen who helped resuscitate me after the nurse clubbed me over Wait, The firemen, the nurse you left that part out Never mind.

One of the firemen had had this in his back pocket, and I lifted Maybe you could show it when I r Look for a movie.

Shouldn't there be taffy residue all over your pantaloons and sho I watched on the way over here.

I stopped at the all night Laund and used a special taffy remover I don't believe a word of that s Not one word.

I think I still have some stuff tucked up my.

So if you want to.

If you want to see it.

I'm going to take your word for You show this one, I run.

Look for a movie.

It might take a minute because I have the taffy to.

Just go up.

I already know what this is.

He claims he lifted it off a fir It'd be great if it was a blooper reel from Em Heck, yeah.

Randolph Mantooth is the man, but he ain't in this.

We all know what it is.

No need to belabor the point or hopes and dreams only to have th right in front of us.

So let's get right into it toget (battle sounds) - It's Hakur!

Leader of Unga Kahn's army!

- Lie low!

- There's Moloch, the deserter!

And Crash Corrigan, the other man we were sent to capture!

- The gate's giving way, Captain Hakur!

What are your orders?

- Order a general retreat!

- Sound retreat!

(bugle sounds) - Where's Crash?

- I don't know.

I haven't seen him since the enemy started to retreat.

- Think he was captured?

- I'll question the men.

- Our scheme worked!

- They won't stop until they get to Unga Kahn's tower.

- We're going with them.

It's our one chance to rescue Diana and Billy's father.

(Moloch shouts) - Captain Hakur!

- Yes?

His Imperial Majesty awaits you on the Reflectoplate.

- Very well.

Where's the Reflectoplate?

- I'll show you how to work it.

- What do you mean by ordering a retreat?

I told you to dispose of that traitor Moloch and that stranger from the upper world, Lieutenant Corrigan!

- I have, Your Majesty.

They fell from the wall and were quickly taken care of.

Quick, let's get to Hakur's room and stay undercover!

- Put those ladders on the rack.

The rest of the equipment to the store room.

- Diana!

- Billy!

Quick, stay in there.

You mustn't be seen!

- Dad!

What's happened to my father?

He doesn't even know me.

- He doesn't know any of us.

Unga Kahn's transforming machine has changed him into another person.

- The fools!

This is not what I asked for.

- Now's our chance.

Let's break it up!

(knocking) - Norton!

Open the door!

- It's Ditmar!

You've got to hide!

- You've been warned not to interfere with Professor Norton's work.

- Professor Norton would never consent to this, if he knew what he was doing!

He's not in his right mind!

- You will think differently when you come out of the transforming machine.

Unga Khan has no patience with those who defy him!

Will you come with me, or shall I summon the guard?

- Billy!

- Gee, I thought you were a black robe!

One just saw me when I came in here.

- Stand there.

- It's Hakur!

- What happened to you, Captain?

- Corrigan tricked me... ...ordered the army to retreat.

- Crash Corrigan is heading for Hakur's room.

- I'll notify His Majesty at once!

- No!

You guard the door to Hakur's room and see that they don't escape!

- You say they're going to put Diana in a transforming machine the same as they did your father?

- Yes, sir.

- Come on, Moloch.

We'll pay Kahn a little visit in his throne room!

Tie them up!

I'm going to the throne room.

Stay here, Billy!

- For the last time, will you tell me where he's hiding?

- You're wasting your breath.

I'll never tell you anything!

- Your friend Norton once said the same thing.

But the transforming machine changed his mind.

- I won' tell!

- Put her in the transforming machine!

- Guard!

Remember, no harm must come to the girl.

Merely transform her mind so that you will no longer interfere with my plan.

(no audio) Oh hello and welcome back.

So that was chapter five Prisoners of Atlantis.

All I have to say is goodbye, Diana.

Well, what?

Oh, yeah.

I mean, I guess she's kind of pr I mean, she was was kind of pretty because that just got her and she's toast.

Now, listen, here's an interesti She was played by a lady named L She went to school for talented And one of her classmates was Ru who was in a lot of those great Berkeley movies.

Rumor is Lois Wilde won the Miss pageant in 1923, but she had to because she was a professional a and the contest was only open to At any rate, good news for us.

That machine thing got her and it's curtains for he No, no, Don't try to talk me out I had to have something to belie I saw that misty smoke stuff.

No one comes back from that.

Speaking of something that shouldn't come back, where could be with tonight's movie?

He.

He ought to be here right now.

And here I am, fellas.

I still got the taffy toes.

I was up in the attic in the Eas and I found a movie.

Sapo.

Do you set out to find the world films?

No.

No, not.

Not really.

Well, you have succeeded in doing just This movie is especially horribl Well, tell me a little bit about Well, first off, the title, it's Don't Look in the Basement.

Woo!

I remember that movie.

It had that great theme song by Clark.

Don't look in the basement, baby Suffer What I tell you about you Clark infatuation.

You told me not to try to sing l especially when I go downtown Su This movie has nothing to do wit Clark.

Sheesh.

As I was saying, the name of thi is Don't Look in the Basement.

That is a weird title.

But it's also called The Forgott I've been forgotten A time or tw happens around my birthday or ho And it's also called Death Ward Oh, I've been in a lot of wards, Montgomery Wards usually Ward 16 but I've never been in Ward 13.

All the nights.

Yeah, well, that is very true.

It was also a test marketed as the snake pit.

Ooh, I hate being in snake pits.

Although snakes make you, they make you forget how to spea And you can't read your words and your eyes feel like they're and splitting like clumps.

As well as beyond help.

That's what the guidance counselor said But why so many titles?

Were they trying to bamboozle the people or something?

Well, your guess is as good as m Well, my guess would be better t your guess, but I think you get It was distributed by Hallmark r They enjoyed a fair amount of su with a little film called The Last House on the Lef Now that was a good movie.

Well, tell me a little bit about this Oh, come on.

Please.

No, please, please, please, please, please, please, please.

All right, fine.

You ask for it.

You ever hear the term video?

Na No, I can't say.

Yes, I have.

Well, this film is an example of one.

Well, I don't get it.

What is so nasty about it?

Video Nasty is a UK slang term to describe a film that was bann because it was too bloody or too Oh, I've been called nasty more times than I can coun but I never really been called b The night is.

Young.

Well, so tell me about this video.

Nas What did it mean to get called t Well, it.

Limited where the films could pl but sometimes getting the video nasty label was a badge of honor Some people actually thought out these films with this label, the video Nasty Mark, just meant it was great to them.

In fact, one of the best bands of all tim The Damned wrote a song called N and in it they sing about their love for bloody horror movies.

They sing Catch catch, a Horror I fell in love with my video Nasty catch catch, a horror train, a freeze frame, going to drive you insane while.

They sing about this movie right that you're holding in your hand No, no, no, not at all.

Just about the genre Look, I don't know how to prepar all for what you're about to see There are some very unsettling s some very unsightly people in th So here's your chance to change the channel.

There's probably one of those re shows on where a guy is thinking about marrying a lady he just met 10 seconds ago.

There's probably an infomercial or a singing the praises of a ne to wax your ceiling.

So make up Are you going to watch?

Okay, You're still with me.

I applaud your courage.

Remember, this movie is coming f There's no escape.

There's no way out.

So sit back, relax.

As we prevent a certified video nasty called Don't look in the b here on Nightmare Theater.

- Look here, I just heard 'em, Sam.

It's got to be them, Sam.

It's almost 1930 hours.

They woulda left an hour ago.

I think that's them!

Sam, Real low.

Watch, above those trees!

- They really comin', Sergeant?

- You wait.

They do this every night.

Sam!

What's that?

Right through there.

I don't like it when you say they comin', Sergeant.

It scares me!

- All right, Sam.

It's all right now.

- Should I tell him, Janie?

- Yes.

And you both come away from the window.

It's been longer than 10 minutes now.

- Sergeant Jaffee, Janie says it's all right now.

Come on.

It's all right.

Janie!

If they do come, will I see them?

- No one's ever seen them, Sam.

Now, let's not be late for supper again, shall we?

- (sing-song voice) Baby.

Baby mine.

- Supper's in a few minutes, Harriet.

You have to leave your baby here.

You know the rules in the dining room.

Later, you can come back to her when you're finished.

- Don't touch my baby!

Don't you ever touch my baby again!

- All right, Harriet, I won't touch your baby.

- You better not!

You know what will happen to you?

I'll kill you!

I swear to God, I'll kill you!

(Sam making boat motor noises) - Ready to eat, Sam?

- Every night, Dr. Stephens makes me eat the soup.

I bet you don't know how many kinds of soup I've eaten!

Come on, guess!

- I don't know, Sam.

- Janie!

When can we put my boat in the water?

- Sam.

There's something I've got to tell you.

We've been friends for a long time now, but I'm going to have to leave, now.

I'm going to have to say goodbye.

- Goodbye?

That means you're going to leave me, Janie?

We can't play with the boat?

- I'm sorry.

Oh, I'll miss you, Sam, but I just can't take this any longer.

Oh, I know you don't understand.

When you're ready, come eat your supper.

I'll be in to join you later on.

Right now, I have to go and talk to Dr. Stephens.

- Jennifer.

Jennifer!

Janie's going away!

Would you have me put my boat in the water?

I bet Janie didn't say goodbye to you, neither!

I bet you!

- Now use the axe, Judge.

Listen to me, Judge.

Use the axe, Judge!

Go ahead, Judge!

Use the axe!

Use it!

Again, Judge!

Once more again.

Strike out, harder, Judge.

Oh, again!

That's it, Judge.

Hit it again and again!

Strike it!

Strike!

- Dr. Stephens, I must speak to you.

- Yes, what is it, Janie?

He's doing very well tonight.

Can you sense how each stroke reaches down, bringing some part of his conflict?

Perhaps that's the cellar door of the unconscious brain.

Yes, he's reaching it.

Reach for it, Judge!

- Dr. Stephens!

- Yes?

Doctor, I've come to a decision about... ...about all of this.

I just can't take it any longer.

Harriet threatened me again tonight.

I'm leaving!

When you said you had someone else coming out tonight, someone to help.

- I can't accept that decision, Janie.

You're a professional!

I won't allow you to do it!

(Janie screams) - Put it down, Judge!

(screams) Put it down, Judge!

Put it down!

(screams) - Judge!

Judge, Judge.

Put it down, Judge.

Put it down, Judge!

Put it down!

That's right.

Oh, God.

Oh, How did this happen?

- I don't know!

- Get out of here!

Judge.

Judge, we're not going to do anything foolish.

Get the axe, Sam.

Very quietly, we're going to walk into the house.

Come on, Judge.

Don't look at Dr. Stephens!

I'm going to help you.

Come on, quietly, quietly, calmly.

That's right.

Into the house.

I'm coming with you.

That's right, Judge.

Sam, put the axe down on the ground.

Sam?

Sam, listen to me.

From now on, I'm going to take care of the family.

I'm going to take care of Cameron, and Janie, and all the others.

Do you understand?

- But Janie's leaving.

- Oh?

All right, listen to me.

I'll be back in a few minutes to tell you what to do with Dr. Stephens.

Do you understand me?

I'm coming, Judge.

That's right.

Quietly, calmly.

- Don't cry, baby.

Don't cry.

I'll get you a bottle.

Here's your... Danny!

My baby!

Danny!

My baby!

Danny!

(Harriet screams) Danny!

What have you done with my baby?

Danny!

- Harriet, what's wrong?

- Baby?

Baby, baby!

- Harriet, what's wrong?

- What have you done to my baby child?

- Nothing!

- You took my baby!

- No!

- You took my baby!

- No, no!

- My baby!

(thunder crashes) - Hello?

(knocks) Hello?

Hello?

Dr. Stephens?

- Deannie!

The lady!

- Go to your room, Sam.

Have you been standing there long?

- Why no, in fact, I just this minute came in.

I didn't see any- - I'm Dr. Masters, Geraldine Masters.

Am I expecting you?

Well, perhaps Dr. Stephens hadn't mentioned my coming.

I'm sorry.

I'm Charlotte Beale.

RN, psychiatric therapy.

- Beale?

- Yes.

I'm to get settled in tonight.

I'm starting with Dr Stephens first thing in the morning.

- Well.

Perhaps you'd better go into my office.

This way.

Have a seat.

Now, would you mind telling me again just who you are and exactly what you're doing here?

- Dr. Masters, I'm sorry you haven't been informed about my coming.

You see, Dr. Stephens hired me, oh, about a week ago, I think it was.

Yes, on the 20th.

I had heard about Dr. Stephens' unusual psychiatric methods and called for an interview.

He liked my training and background and said he was terribly short on qualified help and asked if I would start this next week.

Which is today.

- Now, just wait a minute, Miss Beale.

First of all, I was not informed about your coming here.

And secondly, I feel sure that Dr. Stephens would have brought this up with me if he'd reached a decision about you.

- Dr. Masters, certainly there can't be a mistake.

Oh, perhaps it's just an oversight- - That's just the point, Miss Beale.

Dr. Stephens would not have made an oversight.

not about something as important as increasing our staff, not when there's just three of us, well, normally, three of us on the staff.

- You know, perhaps I really should go in to see the doctor.

He's expecting me.

- Miss Beale...

I have something very unpleasant to tell you.

We've had a tragedy here.

We've lost Dr. Stephens.

He was viciously attacked by one of the patients, and he died shortly afterwards.

So you can see, this is just not the time to discuss any of this.

Well, surely you can understand how his death has greatly changed things.

Naturally, I've taken over in his place.

But since I wasn't informed about your coming here, I feel no need to keep any minor commitment that he may have made, and certainly not now.

You see.

I'm...

...I'm changing some administrative objectives, and what Dr. Stephens had in mind may not be exactly what I'm planning.

- I just can't believe Dr. Stephens is dead.

- We have to accept that, Miss Beale.

I just don't believe you could be of any help right now.

- Dr. Masters, I gave up a perfectly good job to come here.

They wanted me to stay, but I left.

- What place are you talking about?

- Green Park General Hospital.

I'm a supervisor of the- - I am not questioning your qualifications.

Did Dr. Stephens talk with your supervisor about your leaving?

- Well, I'm sure he did.

Besides, I showed them this letter of acceptance from Dr. Stephens.

- Then they knew about your coming here then.

- Why, yes.

- Do you have any place to go from here, Miss Beale?

- Well, frankly, no.

Unless, of course, Green Park would consider taking me back.

I suppose I could tell them what's happened here, about Dr. Stephens and about your taking over.

Perhaps they would make some sort of consideration.

- Miss Beale, frankly, I have a very difficult decision.

There have been some abnormal reactions with a few of the patients.

Dr. Stephens trusted them.

He treated them as though he were their father.

So realistically, this has been a death in the family.

Now, my job is to recreate that trust.

I doubt seriously that Green Park would take you back, and it would be very awkward trying to explain all of this, so, uh... ...well, since you're here, and Dr. Stephens did make the commitment, I guess you might as well start in the morning.

- Thank you, Doctor Masters.

- Now, you must understand that I'm not offering you anything of a permanent nature, it takes a very special attitude to work here.

- Dr. Stephens told me that.

- Dr. Stephens believed that insanity was not a breaking away from reality, but rather a very complex series of obsessions.

Psychiatrists have always tried to reverse that, you know, bring a patient back to normalcy.

But Dr. Stephens believed the opposite.

He believed that these obsessions could be pushed, forced to grow so large, so ominous, that the patient would have to use his own strength to destroy them.

- Really?

That's a very interesting theory.

- We look at it very simply here, Miss Beale.

Our patients are all people who are unloved, unwanted, forgotten.

So we're a family.

Their family, and everyone helps with the chores.

Well, now, I'll show you to your room.

I'm afraid there's no connecting bath.

Well, this is it.

I hope you'll be comfortable.

I have a lot of things to do now, so if you'll come into my office in the morning, we can go over your routine.

- Thank you, Dr. Masters.

- Good night.

- Oh, Dr. Masters, where are the patient's rooms?

- They're right next to yours.

And upstairs.

As I said before, we're a family, and it's for that reason there are no locks on any of the doors.

Dr. Stephens didn't believe in the doctor-patient relationship.

Goodnight.

- Goodnight.

(laughter) (woman gasps) - Good evening, dearie!

You never should go rushing around like this alone!

Get out, get out!

And never, never come back!

Never.

- Get out?

Why?

Get out?

There's no reason.

- Oh, there's plenty of reasons.

- My name is Charlotte.

What's yours?

- Up the airy mountain, down the rushing glen!

You never can go hunting for fear of little men!

Hello, and welcome back.

You know, folks, one of the tagl for this movie in the trailer wa between sanity and madness can be crossed in a single step.

I think they meant the single st you take when you cross from the into the theater.

What do you think about that?

Sa I Sapo.

I said, What do you think about Are you listening to me?

Up the airy mountain, down the b We dare to go hunting for fear of little men.

Well, what are you babbling abou That sounds like what that crazy in the movie was just saying a m We folk, good folk trooping all green jacket, red cap and white owl feather.

You can stop that any time now.

The point you're trying to make is not taking root here.

I don't know if that passes for in your mind, but you look like Down along the rocky shore.

Some make their home.

They live pancakes.

Crispy pancakes?

Do you know what he's talking ab Of yellow tide foam?

Some in the reeds of Black Mount Lake with frogs for their watch dogs all night.

All week.

Frogs?

What?

Watch dog Seriously Sapo, what are you talking about?

Hey, hey, hey, hey, boss.

Hey.

Mittens What's going on?

What's happening, fellas?

That's what I was.

Going to ask You just started blubbering abou crispy pancakes, and we folks on What has gotten into you?

Oh, my Was I saying all that stuff out I thought I was just remembering like a flashback.

Yeah, You were saying it out lou I don't know what happened to me for a minute.

I was transported back to my chi You see, I had this nanny when I was a ki You had a nanny?

Well, more like a lady who watched aft when the family went on vacation for trips around the world.

They didn't take you with them on their vacations?

No.

It was my mom and my dad.

My brother and my sister and my only had a seven seater tour van and there wasn't enough seats for all of us.

So I usually stay Seven seats.

And there were five people in your family.

Wait, wait a minute.

Wait, wait, wait.

You're right.

At any rate, I had a lady who looked after me while they w And what does that have to do with this old nursery rhyme you were just spouting off a few minutes ago?

She would always sing that poem all hours of the day and night.

Sometimes, boss, I would wake up from a dead slee and she would be like a mere thr from my face.

Who?

She got three inches from your f How could she stand that?

She was blind in one eye?

She got real close to me and tol that I'm about to Area Mountain.

I thought I had forgotten all ab after that third lobotomy.

Yet you remembered it now.

Lucky I guess once something is in my there is no getting it out of my I bet I could get it out with an and a shovel.

Yeah.

Memory is weird, boss.

Sometimes.

Or sad or unpleasant things you to forget and stop thinking abou But you can't.

Sometimes you can't escape the m of the things you've heard or se or even eaten or done.

Memory is like a prison boss.

Amen to that, brother.

I try every day to forget certai but there's always something the to remind me.

And that's something is usually on my right babbling And just.

When you think you have forgotte about stuff, bam!

A creepy old lady walks by and r That is weird, boss.

That is weird.

Well, I mean, that's kind of what this movie is about Each of the characters is haunte by something they did or saw and they can't deal with Sarge.

He saw some unpleasantness durin and Harriet is seemingly dealing with the loss of a child.

Your traumatized by a crazy woma who recited the same silly poem and all night.

You know, I think I'm kind of like the people in this movie.

Oh, yeah, They all have issues and need he But what about that red headed w What's the deal with him?

Oh, he's just a nut, folks.

Let's get back to Don't look in the basement here on Nightmar You guys saw that, too, right?

For what?

- That's Danny.

Yes?

- The guard is posted, sir.

- Jennifer?

- Yes.

The prisoner is secure, sir.

- Thank you, Sergeant.

- That was Sam's friend Jaffee.

- Yes, We call him Sergeant.

Difficult case.

War.

He was or is a real sergeant.

His platoon was lost in combat because of something he did.

His prisoner, as he calls it, is Jennifer Downey.

I want you to watch her very carefully, spend some time with her.

Several times she's attempted to escape.

- Escape?

- In the sergeant's jargon, to "break confinement".

Sam, I've told you not to interrupt me when I'm busy.

- But Deannie, what you want me to do?

- Sam, I'll talk to you about it later.

Go on now.

Go on.

- And that's Sam.

- Sam... Sam is a lovable child.

He's been a patient of Dr. Stephens for several years.

Dr. Stephens operated on him three or four years ago.

Dr. Stephens allowed me to assist him in that operation.

Drilling through the frontal lobe left Sam harmless, but with the mentality of an eight year old.

That was the last lobotomy Dr. Stephens ever did.

And it was because of that operation that Dr. Stephens turned from surgery to his obsession development theory.

- Tell me about Allyson King.

Allyson?

Allyson has had a very unfortunate past.

She was very close to her father, and he died.

She was 13.

Her mother remarried a man that Allyson absolutely cherished, and he left.

And that was the beginning of the pattern.

Allyson tried to love other men, and they were cruel to her, and they left her, and she almost gave up - It's a classic pattern, isn't it.

- Then Allison met a man.

She thought he was perfect.

He loved her, and they lived together.

But he used her.

He sold her to other men.

Well, her love for him smoothed that over, but.

And someone came along that was younger and prettier, and he threw her out.

And it was the breaking point.

- What is her attitude now?

- She craves love desperately, from anyone.

Everyone.

- And these others, Harriet and Mr. Cameron.

- Well, I'll tell you about the others later, but right now, I'd like you to start with Mrs. Callingham.

but right now, I'd like you to start with Mrs. Callingham.

but right now, I'd like you to start with Mrs. Callingham.

- Oh, yes.

Mrs. Callingham is the one who occassionally hallucinates.

- Oh, she has a number of interesting worlds.

Why don't you take her for a walk?

She likes the flowers.

She sometimes believes they're her children.

- It's pleasant here, don't you think, Mrs. Callingham?

Do you get out often?

- It's you who needs to get out!

- Yes, I remember.

You were going to tell me why.

- Up the airy mountain, down the rushing glen!

We cannot go a-hunting because of little men!

Oh.

Bobby!

Alan!

Lester!

- Operator?

Operator?

Operator?

Operator?

Oh, Sam, I didn't hear you come in.

- Doctor Stephens.

He don't call on the phone anymore.

- Sam.

I know how much Dr. Stephens liked you.

- Dr. Stephens wants us happy.

He said I should tell you.

- Sam, I understand Dr. Stephens is still very real for you.

- Oh, Miss Charlotte.

I forget what the doctor told me to tell you.

I knew it a minute ago.

Sam, it's all right.

I understand.

(knocks) - Come in.

Commander.

- Sorry to bother you when you're busy.

- Oh, that's all right.

Have a chair.

- It's about my phone.

- Well!

The patients seem to be accepting you.

That's important.

I suppose you've noticed it.

It's a little things to count.

Most of them, especially Danny.

And, of course, Sam.

- You're very fond of Sam, aren't you?

- Yes, very.

Dr. Stephens was very close to him, too.

Sam's lost his intelligence, but he has very deep feelings, perhaps deeper than ours.

- Oh, Dr. Masters- - Oh, don't be alarmed.

This is Jennifer.

Occasionally she becomes very withdrawn, and naturally, I like her to be with me when that happens.

- Is she beyond help?

- Beyond help?

To say that means that we've given up, and we never give up.

No one's beyond us.

We're always getting closer.

- Yes, of course.

Please don't misunderstand.

- Oh, no, I understand.

Oh, it's time to be getting to bed.

I promised Sam that I'd read to him.

Would you mind seeing to the others?

- No, of course not.

Dr. Masters, I hope you forgive my statement about Jennifer.

I simply meant that- - It's just that, you're not quite used to all our little family yet, Miss Beale.

One day you'll be as close to them as brothers and sisters.

Goodnight.

- Goodnight.

Dr. Masters, before I forget, I wanted to tell you that my phone is not working.

I was wondering if you're having the same trouble.

- Oh, that occasionally happens, I'll try to take care of it.

Goodnight.

- Goodnight.

That's enough for tonight, Mrs. Callingham.

- You liked our walk in the garden, didn't you?

- Yes, I did.

- Well, don't be surprised if we never go again!

- Don't mind my observing, you handle Mrs. Callignham very well.

Better than some of the others.

Hello, and welcome back.

I have nothing else to say about this movie.

If that means we just sit here an absolute total silence, then that's what it means.

You can all enjoy the silence for all I care.

Oh, come on, boss.

I've been watching this a little This movie ain't so bad.

Oh, yes, it is.

I bet if the three of us put our together and worked on this coll we could find something good in this movie.

We could put every head on the p together.

Maybe every head that ever existed together.

And there would still be nothing here.

Oh, come on, let's be positive.

How about the director at that?

He was a, well, great, upstandin and a class act rather like myse The director was f brown rig.

That's Brownrigg with two G's at The extra G is for God.

Awful.

He was the director of such amaz as Don't Hang Up in 1974, Scum of the Earth, also in 1974.

And I swear to goodness, I'm not making this up.

Keep my grave open.

In 1977, the Department of Justice has de that showing those movies on mov in any state or federal prison v the Eighth Amendment to the Cons Just a bad director supposed.

Ha But what about the cast?

Can you tell me anything about t hip dudes and cool chicks that are in this movie?

Good Gravy.

Sapo Were you watchi This cast is bad.

For starters, it's got Bill McGe And who is he?

Boss.

He's that guy walking around eating popsicles all the time.

Here's a spoiler alert on the in They don't give you anything on Not even a corn dog.

Oh, you know about that?

Anyway, I never heard of this Bill McCree character.

His name is Bill McGee, And ther reason for you to have ever hear He was in a truckload of stinker The only possible exception and this is really stretch of th was that he was in Curse of the Creature in 1968.

Boy, I sure like to see that movie and how.

It's also got Jesse Lee Fulton i Not now.

Now for all you so-called film scholars and blowhards out there I'm aware the films that she was in, I know she was in the Last P Show, Paper Moon and the Sugarland Express.

You need not send any cards or letters in attempting to argu because she was not good in thos She is awful in this role and she also polluted the screen by being in a bullet for a pretty boy and Buster and So she ain't a good thing that s the good thing in this movie.

No, she's not.

There's not a single good thing What about the writer?

We hadn't talked about him.

Somebody had to write this thing Was he any good?

Well, I mean, again.

We got something here.

Okay, Maybe in some universe I could be persuaded to admit if One of the writers was Tim Pope.

No.

Tim Pope.

Who is he?

Only one of the greatest video directors of all time.

Who?

I like the music video with the playing and the kids dancing.

And this pope guy directed video Yeah, Pope directed videos for T and Siouxsie and the Banshees.

But he's most well known for directing dozens of videos for the greatest band of all tim Starland vocal band.

No.

Gary Puckett in the Union Ga The Dave Clark five.

No Town Pipers, No Canned Heat b Larry Davis Experience.

Tough wi No, no, Stop, Stop shouting out like you're on some stupid game I'm talking about the single gre group of musicians ever assemble The Cure.

And I have always wanted to see but they won't let me in.

They are by far the greatest ban And Tim Pope directed 21 of thei Everything from Let's Go to Bed in the early day to just like Heaven to Lullaby he even directed in the Orange, their amazing concert film.

So that is a good thing, huh?

Yes, I will submit Tim Pope is g This movie's not great, though, and this is his only writing cre as far as I know.

You know, maybe he learned a les after this movie and decided to on writing our music videos inst You know, kind of like when I gave up clog dancing afte unfortunate incident on the Lawr Welk Show and I decide decided to spend my whole life finding good movies for you full Yeah, maybe so.

He was very young when he wrote Normally, I'd say anyone connect this movie should be shunned by and ostracized forever like me.

But the man who directed picture you can be forgiven.

A great many things.

Look, folks, we should applaud and appreciate for all the great things he's do This movie, however, is not one of those thi So after this is over, go out on the Internet and look up some of his music vi You'll be glad you did.

You know, it's really a shame th we can't show anything by the cu But there's no federal, state or that says we can't sing their so One, two, three, four.

Show me, Me, show.

Oh, no, no, no.

The pictures of you.

So we're go Make the short.

Sparkle film.

Now.

Let's look at Now.

Start the film.

Come on.

- Good morning, Jennifer.

Mrs. Callingham?

(moaning) My God, what's happened?

Mrs. Callingham!

Your tongue's been cut out!

- Here, drink this.

- No.

- Look, you've got to understand that ours is a family of persons who know very few limits.

Even the limits of physical pain, when Mrs. Callingham did this to herself, she was probably beyond the threshold of physical feeling.

My greatest concern about her is the blood that she's lost.

She's very weak.

- I don't hold up very well, do I?

I'm sorry.

It's just the thought of our all being asleep.

- She was probably hallucinating.

Self infliction of pain, self disfigurement.

Sometimes that indicates that the patient has transcended the body.

- Oh, what would Dr. Stephens have done in a case such as this?

- Exactly as I'm doing, calling as little attention to it as possible.

Now, she's received treatment.

Now she has to accept what she's done.

For the time being, I wouldn't discuss this with any of the others.

- Dr. Masters, aren't you ever afraid?

- I'm always afraid.

(loud knocking) - Hello?

Anybody here?

Hello?

Hello?

Hello?

Oh, hello there.

Hello there.

(Mrs. Callingham mumbles) Oh, hello there.

How are you?

- I don't believe we've been properly introduced.

- Well, I'm the telephone man.

My name is Ray.

(Mrs. Callingham mumbles) Oh, lady, I hope that isn't catching.

Say.

you've got some trouble with your telephone.

Could you show me where the equipment is?

- What trouble are you talking about, sir?

- Well, I don't know yet.

It's something with your voltage drop.

Oh, never mind.

I'll find it myself.

Say, how come you people didn't call?

I mean, about the telephone.

It can't be working.

- My name is Oliver W. Cameron, Jurist consult, adjudicator of the Court of Appeals.

Doctor of Jurisprudence.

- Boy, that's got to be some big problem.

(Mrs. Callingham mumbles) What did she say?

- She said, your being here represents grave danger.

- Oh, lady, I'm sorry.

I mean, I didn't know.

She ain't got no tongue!

Objection overruled!

That is immaterial.

- Hey, buddy.

How about giving me back my screwdriver?

- I will conduct you to my chambers.

- No, no, no.

That's quite all right.

Look, here's what we'll do.

You people just, just wait right here, okay?

And I'll go and find the equipment.

All right?

And if I'm not back in three minutes, then you people can go and hide.

Okay?

That's an awful virus you got there, lady.

- Who are you, and exactly how did you enter this building?

- Now, wait a minute.

Wait a minute.

First, which way are you?

I mean, this way or that way?

- I don't know what you're talking about, and I want you to answer my question!

- I'm sorry, doctor.

It's just that, well, you've got so many twilight people around, you know, and, well... - Exactly what are you intending to do here?

- It's your phone.

I mean, we've been getting some strange readings on your voltage lately, and well, I just came out to check it as quick as I could and get the hell out of here.

- Why didn't you inform me of your coming here?

- How could I inform you?

You ain't got no telephone!

You've got bouncers on every door and a receptionist that ain't got no tongue!

What's to inform?

- That's enough of your impertinecne, you have absolutely no right to enter this building without my permission!

- So what am I going to do?

I'm supposed to fix the telephone.

You want me to fix the phone?

You don't want me to fix the phone.

It don't matter to me.

I'm just the phone man.

Now, I drove for an hour to get out here.

You tell me.

- All right, this way.

- Tell you what, I'll finish this up as quick as I can, and I won't be bothering you again.

Ever!

- The wiring in this closet.

Please don't leave the area, I'll be back in a few minutes to escort you out of the building.

And under no circumstances are you to have anything more to do with any of the patients!

Now, is that understood?

- Whatever you say, Doc.

I'm just trying to help.

You know what I mean?

Sheesh!

Hi.

I'm fixing the telephone.

- That shouldn't take too long, huh?

- Nah, one of the lines was cut.

Just take a minute.

You, uh, you do understand me, don't you?

- You know, uh, I used to live in this place where the phone man was always coming around.

- Oh, yeah.

That bad, huh?

- Un huh.

That good!

- I thought you meant that you had a lot of phone trouble.

- Hell, I didn't even have a phone!

Who let you in anyway, honey?

I don't know her name.

The doctor, I guess.

- She let you in?

- Yeah, sort of.

She is the boss, and she... - You know, you're kinda handsome.

What's your name?

- Now look, honey, I'm just the telephone man.

- Don't be afraid!

- Look, sweetheart, you're a good looking gal and all that, but this ain't my bag.

Not in the closet, it ain't.

Now, cut it out.

I ain't even supposed to be talking to you.

Or nothing.

- Don't be afraid.

Don't back away from me.

You love me.

You do love me.

Say it!

All right, already!

I love you.

Now, cut it out, hmm?

- Oh, you love me!

You do love me!

Oh, I'm a princess!

I'm a princess to men, they can't turn away from me!

They caress me and kiss my- Don't push me away!

You said you loved me!

You said that you loved me!

- I've got a secret.

I've got a secret.

And I ain't gonna tell nobody but Miss Charlotte.

- You're doing fine now, Mrs. Callingham, but you need to rest, you've been up and around too much.

- Gimme that watch, Danny!

- You're hurting me!

Just fooling!

- I'm sorry, Danny.

I'm sorry, you shouldn't have scared me.

You won't tell on me, will you, Danny?

- I won't tell on you.

- You won't tell on me, will you, Danny?

(Jennifer screams) (Charlotte screams) (both scream) - Jennifer, stop it!

Stop it!

Jennifer?

Jennifer?

Stop it, stop it!

Allison, help me!

Jennifer, stop it!

(Jennifer moans) Jennifer's all right.

I don't know what happened.

- Why did she do it, Doctor?

I thought you said Jennifer was withdrawn!

- Probably an acute reaction to her real condition.

- Dr Masters, perhaps I shouldn't have come here at all!

- I don't think there's any point in our talking about your leaving Miss Beale, you forget you were very anxious to take this job, I made special provisions for you to be here.

- I realize that, but I don't know what to do!

- I'm the doctor and you're the nurse, and what I do decides what you will do.

- I'm alright now.

I just need to get some rest.

Hello and welcome back.

Do you like overacting?

Do you like incoherent screaming Because if you do, I bet you're enjoying this film.

Oh, I like all of those things, Oh, I'm sure.

You do, you know, But this film, film, it hits a little too close What does that even mean?

Well, first off, there was that that reminded me of my nanny.

Oh, yeah, your nanny.

And then this place takes the place where place is pretty familiar to me, Oh, I'd imagine so.

Well, let me Tell you, they are making a sile looking far better than it reall It's not nearly as glamorous as they are making it appear to You think this is glamorous?

Oh, But that's not what it's like on the inside.

It is not like that at all.

It's pretty rough.

And if you don't know your onion can find yourself neck deep in t PDQ Oh.

Really?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

If you listen to me and follow m you can make the most of things.

See, when you're in that room without a light, in the room without a view, I am the answer to your prayers.

Stop.

Stop right there.

Don't do Whatever you're about to do, just don't do it.

I don't know what you're reachin for, but.

Well, if it's some shampoo bookl you've turned out called El Sapo Guide to Asylum Living, or so you've been involuntarily How to make the most of your tim in the psych ward.

You can put it back right now and forget about it.

I'm not having that tonight.

These people have serious mental and they have need of serious me But it looks like all I'm saying this young people can benefit from my exper Do you know?

Do you know anyone else who has been committed in all 50 as well as Canada and Mexico?

I can't say that I do.

So, my friends, if you ever find in an asylum loony bin, madhouse booby hatch, Nut House Academy, Rubber Room, crazy house or funn Don't say things like that.

It's insensitive and Call them mental hospitals, but not nut houses.

You of all people ought to know You wouldn't make fun of someone in the hospital, would you?

You all made fun of me that time I slipped on the ice and broke m when we went ice fishing.

I mean, we sure did, but that was differ You shouldn't use terms like tha when describing mental hospitals It's cruel.

Okay, fine.

Mental hospitals.

Then all I am saying is this If find yourself in a mental hospit and you're looking to get out, and both the judge and a doctor no way in hell, Jose remember these words third shift That's when the guards are most and your path to the gate is mos So, I mean, you've got to stop.

I can tell you which straps on s jackets made in the US is the weakest strap.

No, just s I can tell you the fairest excha when it comes to swapping meds f buns.

No, no.

Stop.

Boarded up window.

No prob If you know this amazing secret, I tell you which guards are the to bribe.

Stop, stop, stop, stop.

Look, Sapo, you can't sell a book showing pe how to get out of mental hospita Well, I.

Could give it away and could make a donation if they wa We are not capitalizing on the p and mental hospitals.

Leave people alone, folks.

I'm sorry about this.

Let's get back to a little bit more of don't look in the baseme on Nightmare.

By the way, the most likely plac to find extra potato chips or an shoe is the basement.

That's where they used to delive That's why they don't want you to look in the basement because that's your way out and that's where the snacks is.

Just stop it Sapo.

Stop it.

- Hi, Sarge!

Let me see.

- Back off, they're on the way.

- Let me see!

- Move it!

- There's nothing there.

You're crazy!

- Get out!

Get out!

(Danny laughs) - What was that shouting all about?

Sergeant?

I've told every one of you about this sort of thing but you refuse to adhere to my discipline.

Haven't I told you what time the lights are to be out at night in every room?

- Yes sir, you have.

- I take it you're contesting my decision, is that it?

Answer me!

My authority here in this sanatorium is going to remain absolutely unchallenged and totally unimpeachable!

Do you understand?

Hold out your hand.

I hate to punish anyone.

I loathe it.

My domain here is going to never be challenged again, do you understand?

My oaths, my profession, my charge, my liability, my suffering.

for your good!

Never to take the fine balance of all that ever again.

Goodnight, Sergeant.

- Good morning, Sam.

What could be troubling you this early?

- A whole lotta things, Miss Charlotte.

- Oh?

Such as what?

- Dr. Stephens.

He's worried about things.

- Oh, I see.

- He wanted me to talk to you.

- What have you got there?

Where did you get this?

Who gave me this, Sam?

- He said you'd know.

You'd understand.

He wants to help you, Miss Charlotte.

- Who wants to help me?

What are you talking about?

- The doctor.

- Oh, Dr. Stephens, I suppose.

Well, Thank you very much, Sam, but I think we should talk less foolishly about all this.

- I'm the only one who can take you, Miss Charlotte.

Dr. Stephens is gonna help you, if you take the watch.

(Charlotte screams) - He needs watching.

I'm sure you know,.

we can be sure there will be other times.

Other times for other things.

Unlike your friend Danny, I...

...I choose only perfect moments.

Perfect moments, to work out perfect destinies for so many lives.

- Get out!

- I believe there will be a more perfect time.

(Charlotte sobs) - Two vials of lithium barbonate and one vial of vivactal.

You're sure they're missing?

- Very sure, they were taken from a new container.

- This is really quite serious.

Have you checked all the rooms?

- Just about, except for Danny's and Jennifer's.

- But you have checked Cameron's and Jaffe's rooms?

- I checked those first.

- Well, I'll have to go over all this personally.

Thank you.

- I got to tell Deannie!

Deannie!

Deannie!

(Jennifer whimpers) (Jennifer screams) Hello, and welcome back.

So don't look in the basement, h I'll go you one better.

Don't go in the theater when this movie is being shown.

How did you like that one?

Mittens, Check this one out.

Don't look in the basement.

More like don't look for an audi for this movie.

Dig this one.

Don't look for anyone who can watch this whole movie without running out of the theat Okay?

Okay.

Okay.

One more.

Hey, now, how about this?

Don't look in the sub sub sub subbasement less.

You want to see something really Here's what I got.

Well, don't look at that thing o because it's not my.

Way to kill the moment.

Sapo, Nice.

Job.

Sorry.

I though I have thought I had a good one there for a min But you didn't, did you know?

I did not, sir.

Nope.

Wait, wait, Boss, this thing takes place in a mental hospital Yes, we've established that.

So were there a lot of movies set in these mental hospitals?

Oh, sure.

About 10 million of th It's an old standby When it comes to Hollywood write Most of those movies are just exploitative garbage.

But when the writing is strong, the characters are developed and the actors playing those characters are good.

A film set in an institution can So basically movies didn't like this one Exactly.

But there have been good one.

Who really Tell me about some of the good ones.

Well, the best one is probably O Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, which came out in 1975.

That was a great film.

There was also 12 Monkeys in 199 corridor back in 1963.

Far too many to name, though.

I wonder why movies set in these places are so popular.

Well, one theory says the scarie of all is inside of the human mi the horrors a man can conjure up in his own based largely on his own memories are ten times scarier than anything a Hollywood writer could ever dr and not be in control of your ow is extremely terrifying.

Boy, I can vouch for that.

Did you guys see this too?

You guys see what I'm.

I bet you can vouch for that.

An What did we see?

What stuff?

What are you talking about?

Nothing.

Nothing.

Nothing.

But, you know, you know, I really feel for the people in Movie as well.

You should, folks If you want to see a good movie set in a mental institution, check out some of the ones I mentioned ear You could also check out the 194 Bedlam, starring Boris Karloff or even the great Japanese film A Page of Madness, which came ou Frankly, anything is better than this mov but this is the one we're stuck So let's get right back to Don't in the basement here on Nightmar You guys saw that, didn't you?

This is going to be over soon.

Just calm.

Down.

Did you guys just see that?

- Deannie!

Deannie!

Deannie!

- What is it, Sam?

- I can't find her.

I can't find her anywhere!

I've got to find her!

- Well, what is it?

- What do you want with her?

- I've gotta show her!

Down where I got the popsicle!

- What is it?

What's down there?

- Come on.

Come on, I'll show you!

- Sam, I don't have time to play right now, I'm busy.

- Come on, come on, I'll show ya!

Come on, it's in here.

I'm gonna show ya!

- Sam, what is it?

- Come on!

- Are you just putting me on?

- No!

(Allison screams) - Oh God, no, no!

He loved me!

Oh, he loved me!

(Allyson wails) - Allyson?

Allyson what's wrong?

Allyson!

Allyson, calm down!

Calm down and tell me what's wrong!

What's wrong, Allyson?

Calm down and tell me what's wrong!

- She killed him!

She killed him!

- Who are you talking about?

Who?

- He loved me!

He told me that he loved me and she killed him because he loved me!

Masters!

Masters killed him because he loved me, Charlotte!

She's a murdering, crucifying, mad, insane, maniac!

She's insane, Charlotte!

- Dr. Masters?

- She's no doctor!

She's just like the rest of us here!

And she killed him!

You didn't know that, did you?

She's a patient of Dr Stephens.

She's a schizophrenic, just like me!

She can't control her emotions any more than I can!

- Where is Dr. Masters now?

Yes.

I remember you told me he was.

Charlotte, you've got to believe me.

All these things have been happening ever since you came here.

Masters did it.

She cut out Mrs. Callingham's tongue!

And she killed my man!

Masters did it!

- How do you know?

- She's a patient like me!

Dr. Stepehns' patient.

She pretended to be a doctor.

He let her play and she was pretending when you came, and you believed her, Charlotte!

- That's not true, Allyson!

- Oh, yes, it is true!

Why do you think she wouldn't let you leave?

Why do you think she wouldn't anybody in?

Anybody who threatens to expose her, Charlotte, she'll kill 'em!

- No.

No!

- She'll kill anybody that threatens to expose her and she'll kill you!

- Okay.

Oh.

(Allyson cries) (Charlotte screams) Oh Mrs. Callingham, why do you creep around like that!

Mrs. Callingham, who did this to you?

Your tongue!

- Maa...maa... - It was her?

It was Masters?

Oh, God!

It's true, she's a patient here?

A patient of Dr. Stephens?

Oh, my God!

No!

Judge!

Is it true?

Is it true about Masters?

- Then you know, too!

- I've got to hear it from all of you!

- But you know already!

It's too late.

We know about you.

- About me?

- We've been informed about you.

The verdict is unanimous.

You too are a patient, my dear.

- No!

That's not true!

I've gotta get out of here!

- Oh, God.

You killed her too, just like you killed my man!

And he really loved me!

Geraldine!

He loved me!

- You're upset, Allyson.

I think you better go to your room.

I'll get you something to help you sleep.

- No, I'm not going anywhere.

You're not going to touch me.

We know all about that sleep!

Your little doctor bit's over!

Yeah, that's right!

I told Miss Beale!

She knows.

- What does she know?

She know how I worked?

How I trained?

To be the best?

I could've been.

Except for one insignificant life.

One mistake.

I could have saved thousands!

And I will!

I'll help everyone!

I'll help you, Allyson.

Hold out your arm.

- And you told me she was a patient, too!

Don't you touch me with that!

- You shouldn't have done that!

I can't sleep now!

I have to take care of my patients.

(Charlotte screams) (Danny laughs) (Charlotte sobs) - Allyson?

Allyson?

- Oh!

You shouldn't interrupt us on our wedding night!

(Charlotte retches) - Sam?

Is there anybody in this room?

Oh, God!

Sam.

- I've been looking all over you.

Yeah.

- What is it, Sam?

- Dr. Stephens said you should read it now.

- What?

- Take it, Miss Charlotte.

- Dr. Stephens, how?

Dr. Stephens is alive?

How?

How could you know, Sam?

Sam?

- Where is she?

- Who?

- The patient, Miss Beale!

- She's got to get out of here.

- Oh, no, no.

She's sick!

I've got to help her, got to find her.

- It's too late.

The trial has been held.

The verdict is guilty.

- Who are you to make a decision?

I'm in charge, I'm the doctor here.

- The court has made a decision.

You are no longer in charge!

- I'm in charge, I am in charge!

I've allowed you privileges, and liberties, even after what you did to Dr. Stephens, I let you keep your little toy!

- You wouldn't take that away- - I'll take it away!

I'l take it away!

I want you in your room!

Where is she?

- My name is Oliver W. Cameron- - Where is she?

- jurist consult, my name...

Okay, I don't know if it was a t or if they did it with special effects, but his name was Maurice, and he wou more lives were on or he was a really strange cat.

There are lots of talk, a.

Lot of.

Stuff, but I never did.

Yeah.

Okay.

More fancy feast, darling.

Yeah.

All right.

Hello and welcome back.

We're here once again.

The.

Wait, wait.

I'm going to try this handbook.

Sub sub, sub sub basement of the television studi with a mysterious curator here from the Merrill Movie Museum to another item from one of your favorite films.

And I believe this is from an Academy Award winner, isn't i Well, I was just planning to get rid of Sapo.

Oh.

Good plan.

Yes, This is from an Academy Awa winning film.

In fact, it is from Braveheart.

I saw it stay alive.

No matter what occurs, I will fi No, I don't think that's great.

That's not brief.

Oh, no.

This is one of the many weapons was used in the making of this m And there's kind of a fun story behind this in particular, which is why I also brought lett that that accompanied the the ax When we obtained the ax.

Would you say pain in the ax?

Yes.

You are a pain in the ax.

So they obviously went through t of making weapons that looked ve like the period where William Wa actually William Wallace actuall You know, this is this is very s There is no foam or anything on This is a an authentic ax, big m It's just not sharpened is really the whole th But if you hit somebody with thi you're going to hurt them.

Yeah.

They used all of these for the background They had all of them in backgrou gear, etc..

They actually used a lot of actu surviving members of the clan.

Wallace In that background tree and this particular ax came to u from a member of Clan Wallace who set it off.

And as it's detailed in the lett of authenticity that came along the ax on the last day of filmin the props master came to all of and as thanks for their their wo the film told them that they cou everything they were wearing and What so and that's unusual because normally studios do take that stuff back because want it getting out into the.

Pu He makes me turn in this costume every night.

Yeah.

So, so in this case, this was not on came to us from the person who used it in the fi the person in the film was actua a member of the historic clan.

Wallace That's depicted in the film, rig So it just adds a little bit of authenticity.

Yeah.

And so this would have been the background, like for scenes where they're sh before they go into battle and that sort of thing.

And then they would have had, yo for like the hero shots, which were what they call them, where the actual, you know, where William Wallace would actually be fighting someo that was most likely a sword that was dummied up, that would actually strike people and that sort of thing.

Right.

Anything that was actually going to be used to to be seen actually coming into contact wit would have been something that's not going to do them.

Damage of another would be made whether it be collapsible.

There's a number of different wa they they gimmick things to like the real thing but don't actually hurt.

Right means.

You don't want to actually kill right.

Unless it's.

Me.

Yeah I mean and there have been, you know, episodes on sets where have gotten injured or died or, you know, unfortunately, that do But most films, they take great to make sure that that doesn't h Safety's a high concern on film It is.

It is.

And we're just very lucky to be to get this letter as well.

Yeah, this is a letter of authen You don't always see them, but when you are able to get somethi that, it just adds an extra bit of background to the piece and an extra layer of security t you know, as a collector that you're actually getting som that really is authentic because, you know, there could b knockoffs of things out there.

It's not hard to do.

It's not hard for them to get yo There's a knockoff market out th No, no, no, no.

Stop, Stop right there.

We're not making fake wea We're not making fake props.

We're not even making our own mo Because who would want to see you in a movie?

But but this this prop is pretty impress Would you say that they made a lot of these or are they all kind of one of a kind items I kind of a little bit of both.

They made a lot of items, but they would have made each item u because of the time the weapons would not have been mass produce Right.

So you can't really mass produce to look like individualized weap Each one would have been probabl in a lot of cases made by the person in the you know, i made by the person that wielded or maybe by a blacksmith in the very like that.

In their village.

Well, thank once again for bringing us such a wonderful We're going to get back to the m here on Nightmare Theater.

Can I borrow this for 20 minutes (thunder rumbles) - Sam?

Sam?

Sam?

Sam?

Sam?

Sam?

(Charlotte screams) Oh my God, no!

Dr. Stephens!

No!

(Charlotte wails) Nooooo!

(Charlotte sobs) - Look at me.

You see a saint who cures the incurable.

Supreme authority!

Only the faithful can live here.

Only he who honors me.

Faithful.

Faith!

Before a saint!

- Deannie, is she bad?

- She's...sick.

She needs help!

Take her upstairs.

(Charlotte sobs) - Sam, no, don't, Sam!

Sam!

No!

No!

- We'll correct your conscience.

(Charlotte screams) No!

Please Sam, no!

No, no, no, Sam!

Sam, please help me!

Sam!

No!

Sam, no, no, Sam!

No, Sam, no!

Please help me!

(continues pleading) (Charlotte screams) No!

Sam, please, no!

She's insane!

Oh, Sam!

(continues screaming) No, Sam!

Oh, Sam, no!

Please, Sam!

Please, Sam, try to understand, you've got to help me, Sam!

- Deannie's coming back.

- Sam, Deannie is insane!

She's sick, Sam!

She's gonna kill me!

Then she's gonna kill you!

Sam, Deannie doesn't love you anymore, she's gonna kill you!

- You took my boat.

You killed Dr. Stephens!

You're bad!

- Oh, no, Sam, no!

(Charlotte sobs) - Oh, Sam.

Sam, she's so sick.

So sick!

We've got to help her, Sam.

Go in and... ...cut out the sickness and return her to innocence.

Like you!

- No, Deannie!

- Sam!

Sam!

Sam!

Sam!

Wha- what do you want?

What are you doing?

I'm in charge here!

I'm in charge, and I still- (Masters screams) - Sam!

There's no way out!

She's locked all the doors, and I can't find the keys!

And the downstairs windows are barred!

- I'll show you, Miss Charlotte.

I'll show you.

- Sam, come on!

Come on, Sam, we're free!

Sam, come on!

- Go on, Miss Charlotte!

- Deannie!

No, no!

(Charlotte screams) Mama!

Mama!

Mama!

(Sam weeps) - Get out!

Get out!

And never, never come back!

(thunder cracks) Hello and welcome back.

That was certainly a violent and unpleasant ending.

You know, I can see why this thi got that video, Nasty lady.

Oh, me too.

But it is what it is Sure, there were some unpleasant in this film, but no more unplea than what I have to look at ever I mean, come on.

I've seen El Sapo in a Speedo bathing suit.

That's far worse than anything we just saw in thi If I'm not careful, I'm going to video of nasty labels tattooed o Especially if anyone sees that f No one will ever see that footag And sure, there was a lot of blood and vio in this movie, but I think it made a pretty goo What point was that both.

The people in there needed help.

They weren't getting the help th and bad things happened.

Very bad things.

If you ignore a problem, it'll come back and get you.

Sapo If these folks have been pr treated, none of this would have That was sure.

A weird way to en this movie though, wasn't it, bo Well, that's a bit of a funny st Remember when I said the directo film was a ham fisted host named Brownrigg?

No, I don't remember that.

Well, in 2008, two lunatics plan to remake the film, but it never We got lucky there, didn't we, B In 2017, my buddy Doyle from The planned to remake the film and he was going to call it Deat but that never happened either.

So we got lucky twice.

We dodged two bullets.

Yeah, but the third one got us i Tony Brownrigg, the director's s a sequel called Of All Things Don't Look in the Basement, too, starring some guy from a paranor TV show, Scott Tepperman and ano I never heard of called Jim.

I like that.

It's no, you don't.

It's supposed to take place in t asylum 40 years later.

Boy, that sounds like a good mov So I swear to you, if you ever bring a film that bad in here again, I will do something horror to yo that will make what Sam did at the end of the movie look like a You know, I haven't had one of those in ag Boston years.

Like a book, a tone for me that comes out to 13, $14, I bet At any rate, someone saw fit to to remake this film and the director son made a sequ I have no idea.

It's a mystery.

Speaking of mysteries, what do we have on tap for next Sapo.

We have this, boss.

Oh, that just looks horrible.

My goodness.

I'd rather watch the movie we just watched again.

Yeah, I can go queued up here if Boss, I would not mind seeing th and I'm pretty sure Minton's was telling me he wanted to see it again.

No, n He done.

Well.

You know what, then you and I can watch it.

We'll put the movie, we'll make some popcorn, We'll get some cof No, no, no.

Thank you, folks.

This was our first certified vid and I hope it's our last.

Tonight has been not.

It's not been a good night at al Sapo, I have your ticket for the loony AHHHHH- Well, looky there.

It just got better, folks.

Mittens and I are going to go do to the rumpus room, and we're go in a collection of the Cure's mu by the guy who wrote this movie.

You should do the same.

So until next time, may all your dreams be nightmare