Synopsis
The Institute (2017) is a horror thriller you can watch online on iFILM, set in nineteenth-century Baltimore where a private asylum hides far more than rest and recovery behind its walls.
Young Isabel Porter loses both parents and, crushed by grief, signs herself into the Rosewood Institute looking for relief. At first it feels like shelter. Then the polite doctors reveal their real work: pseudo-scientific experiments in suggestion, personality modification and mind control. Isabel realizes the place has no intention of letting her leave as the person she was. Her options narrow to two — run, or stay lost forever. James Franco plays one of the physicians and co-directed the film with Pamela Romanowsky.
The cast is a deep bench: Allie Gallerani anchors it, with Tim Blake Nelson, Eric Roberts and Josh Duhamel circling around her. Gothic gloom, a sickly color palette and a trap that tightens by the scene make this one for viewers who like grim stories about clinics and broken minds. Fans of uneasy period horror will find their fix. Stream The Institute (2017) online on iFILM.
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