A photo-journalist considers having his depressed, neurotic girlfriend stay at a mental hospital, but things don't seem normal when he arrives. He later returns on his own, and things REALLY prove to be chaotic. Allegedly, the doctor in charge believes in letting patients "cure themselves" by freely acting out their delusions. But something is SERIOUSLY wrong.
A very-loose adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's story itself goes COMPLETELY haywire simply by NOT following the story to it's original and amusing ending. Unlike every other episode of THEATRE MACABRE, which have all been "costume period pieces", this one is updated to the present day (1970). THAT's not the problem. Ignoring what Poe wrote IS. So often, screenwriters are taken to task for not following source material, when a short story needs to be padded out to feature-length, but this anthology TV series should be custom-made for adapting short stories. WHY, therefore, do they repeatedly deviate so wildly from said source material?
Despite that, I still found this one of the more watchable episodes in a series that tends to be needlessly downbeat and pointless. I just wish somebody had done some kind of clean-up/restoration on the SOUNDTRACK, as every single episode in the Severin Films box set sounds muffled and difficult to make out what's being said.
A very-loose adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's story itself goes COMPLETELY haywire simply by NOT following the story to it's original and amusing ending. Unlike every other episode of THEATRE MACABRE, which have all been "costume period pieces", this one is updated to the present day (1970). THAT's not the problem. Ignoring what Poe wrote IS. So often, screenwriters are taken to task for not following source material, when a short story needs to be padded out to feature-length, but this anthology TV series should be custom-made for adapting short stories. WHY, therefore, do they repeatedly deviate so wildly from said source material?
Despite that, I still found this one of the more watchable episodes in a series that tends to be needlessly downbeat and pointless. I just wish somebody had done some kind of clean-up/restoration on the SOUNDTRACK, as every single episode in the Severin Films box set sounds muffled and difficult to make out what's being said.
