Doom Asylum (1987)

Director
Richard Friedman

Main cast
Patty Mullen; Kristin Davis

Genres
Horror

Description
A demented coroner uses autopsy equipment to kill off the teenagers who trespass on the long-abandoned asylum he inhabits. Filmed on location in an actual abandoned asylum.


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