Nerds That Geek Movie Review: ‘Asylum of Darkness’

Written by Scott Edwards

Memories are something special for everyone. Overall, the things that you remember most can add to who you are today. As time passes over a lifetime, it is easy to get lost when trying to look towards the future, but if you refuse to look back on your mistakes, you are likely to make them again. It is important to remember who you are and where you came from before moving forward, because in the long run, you are the only one that can find the way you are supposed to go after you get lost.
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A new day is upon Dwight and he is looking forward to it as always. Preaching to himself about how bad life is in the asylum, he gets a visit from an orderly who wants him to cheer up a bit. Being taken to see Doctor Shakes, Dwight seems fine, but when looking at the doctor and seeing a corpse, he starts to understand why he has been locked away, that and the fact he cannot remember what he did to get thrown in there in the first place. As the day moves on, Dwight is starting to wonder why he is locked up and what he can do to escape and getting advice from one of his closest friends should help a lot.

Talking with Van Gogh in the yard, Dwight admits to seeing things that others cannot and while that might make him crazy, Van Gogh sees the same things. But taking it to the next level, Van Gogh has removed one of his eyes after seeing something that he did not want to see. Painting what he sees in the future, Van Gogh’s eyes are open to the world and what it holds, but little does he know of the power that he possesses. Drawing a bird and watching it drop dead in the yard, Dwight wants to use this talent to escape his prison and begs his friend to draw the doctor so he can escape this hell. Doing as he has been asked, a faceless doctor is created and to Dwight’s delight, what he thought would happen comes true, just in a more gruesome way.

Escaping the asylum and finding his way through the local cemetery, Dwight finds himself being chased by more of these faceless monsters. Before they are able to catch up with him, he sees a car crash and tries to pull the dying man out to help him. As the stranger dies, Dwight believes that his only path to freedom is assuming this man’s identity. Returning to Artemus Finch’s house and meeting the recently deceased man’s wife, Dwight sees that she does not see a stranger, but her two-timing husband. With a new path ahead of him in Finch’s body, Dwight feels like there is nothing that can stop him, but as the days pass, he starts to fear that he is losing himself in the mix. Also, the faceless creatures have found their way to him and are looking to take back what he took from them before his time runs out.

A very interesting story where you are trying to figure out if Dwight is crazy or not and if everything strange that is happening is really there or in his head. I really enjoyed his stories throughout, especially the one of a nameless angel that would visit him after his treatments in the asylum, mainly because he could not remember who she was. Seeing as to how he was able to find an anchor for his existence with his new wife Ellen, Dwight seemed to have everything going for him, but once the faceless group were able to find him, all bets were off, and he started catching glimpses of the man he or Finch was before. With plenty of blood, a disturbed dead doctor, an eyeless best friend who can still see and a shot of redemption for what he did in his previous life, it is a fun movie with some shocking scenes and a great score that will leave you wondering why you feel so good as the credits begin to roll. Stay Scared.

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