Release: Asylum

Asylum
Genre: Horror/Mystery
Director: Neil Burger
Writer: T.F.W. Hallowayne
Based on the novel by Madeleine Roux
Cast: Finn Wolfhard, Mackenzie Foy, Charlie Plummer, Ryan Lee, Barry Keoghan, Ryan Potter, Ben Barnes, Jack O'Connell, Nathan Fillion, Claire Foy




Budget: $29,000,000
Domestic Box Office: $21,082,195
Foreign Box Office: $26,776,002
Total Profit: -$11,336,101

Reaction: Not exactly the numbers we were looking for. The film continues Finn Wolfhard's rough luck at the box office - of the five films he has appeared in for the studio, only Lullabies for Little Criminals managed to make a profit (and barely, with a profit of just $278,006).

"Asylum is a safe spooky story for younger audiences. The film's mystery may not make a lot of sense, but it does hit enough solid notes to work. Director Neil Burger gets great mileage from the setting and locations in the film, and the cast is fairly solid." - Shawn Moseby, Fresno Bee

"Asylum is a teen-horror tale with a promising premise, but the plot feels like it is being made up as the story goes along. This may be more of a problem with the young adult source material than with Hallowayne's adaptation, but part of writing a good adaptation is starting with solid source material." - Jeff Stockton, The Roundup

"The film just feels a little hokey - and is more than a little confusing at times (and the romance between Wolfhard and Foy feels quite awkward at times, but not in intended ways). Maybe some of the questions left unanswered were meant to come back for possible sequels, but I'm not sure this film will merit one. It's not absolutely terrible, but it is mostly forgettable." - Manny Duncan, San Antonio Express-News