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I first saw this film a few years ago when I was viewing Dom d Louise's early works, and became interested in other actors who had once had their names written in the stars, but were now little more than B-vehicle and up-staged stars of bad sit-coms.

Malcolm, of course, was one of the first to make the leap from a rather desperate film career to mediocre sit-com, and has since been followed by such lights as: Cybil Shepherd (Cybil), Joan Cusak (Joan), Bette Midler (Bette), and Courtney Cox (Friends).

I hadn't realised this was his first film sporting the future-villain hair-style, but this only adds to the value of my ex-rental copy of the film.

Much has been said of the camera work in this film, as a sort of a chart of a man's descent into madness, but few people mention the shot that, I feel, is the key to the entire film. When one of the patients exposes himself to a nurse, we get a - filmically - rare penis POV. I have never seen such a thing attempted in a movie, and if you add this to the tremendous whirling tracking-shots, you end up with a film that I think proves beyond doubt that Scorsese owes more to Winkler than he dares reveal.

Brilliant, and standing up to multiple viewings, I have seen it several times, and truly covet my copy of this obscure American classic.

BTW, watch out for the genuinely "disturbing" scene, after the closing credits, where Malcolm "interferes" with the camera, raising all sorts of philosophical questions on the nature of madness, the truth of film, and Crossing The Line (on several levels). Once again, Brilliant!

I love this movie. It's hilarious, hellishly titillating, great at messing with the mind, and even enjoyable on its cheezier merits. In it, Malcolm McDowell plays a crooked psychiatrist who has made a habit of periodically abducting pretty patients from their rooms and raping them. At one point, he ends up making a major mistake and it looks pretty much like he and a patient of his have actually killed the sexy new patient he was going to ravage next. Soon, this corrupt scumbag starts to really flip his lid, not able to tell if the woman they killed is actually dead or not. The photography, the music, the sound, all of it was PERFECT! These filmmakers really know how to capture feelings of paranoia and utter dementia. Also, this movie is anti-psychiatry in all the right ways. Believe you me, I've been to some of these places! I know how those @ssholes really are, and it looks like Charles Winkler and company know, too. I do have to admit that there are a lot of typical "nut" cliches going on here, seeing as how mental patients are often portrayed as retarded people when they actually give off the appearance of being "normal" about eight times out of ten. Still, even this can be forgiveable because this movie was so much warped fun. The opening scene is pretty depressing and the end scene does have the director yelling "Cut it!", but one of the great things about this movie is watching it make a frenzied transition from dead-seriousness to absurdist hilarity with every further minute that passes. "Disturbed" is a minor classic that is tragically, painfully overlooked and underrated. It must be seen, so go watch it.

One night at the Bergen Field Mental Health Facility, debauched Dr. Derrek Russell (Malcolm McDowell) sneaks into the room of one of his disturbed female patients and brutally rapes her. In the daytime, she jumps to her death in the presence of visitors, including a ten year-old girl.

Now the movie fast forwards ten years to the present of 1990. A new patient, physically attractive – Sandy Ramirez (Pamela Gidley) – has arrived. Supposedly a psychometric paranoid and promiscuous, Sandy is hostile to her surroundings. One evening Russell awakens her and drags her out of bed. In a darkened room he forcefully administers penicillin to Sandy, even though she is listed as allergic. His intent is rape. When assistant Michael Kahn (Geoffrey Lewis) enters the room, he seems shocked at first. But then administers another dose of penicillin to Sandy, saying that if you want to kill her ensure that she gets enough. The plan is to bury Sandy before morning and pretend that she escaped from the facility.

At breakfast time, comatose Sandy is not found in her bed. Frantic searches are fruitless. Dr. Russell does spot her, or thinks he spots her, alive on a rooftop looking at him. When he tries to approach her, she disappears. Then strange events begin to happen as the dissolute doctor's mental facilities gradually deteriorate. He even diagnoses himself suffering from a form of cryptomnesia accompanied by paranoid hysteria and hallucinations.

SPOILER: What has happened is this: Sandy was the ten year-old daughter of the woman who killed herself at the beginning of the movie. As Sandy wanted revenge, she haunted the depraved doctor with a series of unnerving events until he himself became a lunatic. Malcolm, disgusted with the Russell's general behavior, was Sandy's accomplice all along!

Directed by Charles Winkler, the film really is not a horror flick. But the tone shifts from serious to comedy to incredulous. Perhaps a better classification might be a florid thriller, as film critic Leonard Maltin put it. At the end of the movie before the credits, as nurse Sandy – with the huge needle the size of a knife – approaches Russell in his padded cell, you can clearly hear the director say "Cut it!" The eerie music by Steven Scott Smalley is effective.

A moderately amusing thriller with a comic edge. The (little known) director often uses distorted camera angles to portray the hero's slow "degeneration into a state of madness" (that's how he describes his condition at one point) and the script is clever enough to keep you guessing and wondering whether Malcolm McDowell (in a great performance that gives class to the production) is simply having "vivid" hallucinations or is driven to insanity by someone else. There are some impressively shot scenes in this movie, but it is marred by an inconclusive ending, which doesn't fully resolve the plot. (**)

The importance of this film must not be underestimated. It was the first EVER time that Malcolm McDowell sported the 'futuristic' spiked hair-do. It has since become his acting trademark. It is the 10th anniversary of the famous hair-style, and you should show your respect by renting this film.

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This is really about a sadistic doctor in a mental hospital who rapes his patients. One of these patients commits suicide on visiting day in front of her very young daughter, who later, as an adult, admits herself into the same hospital under the pretense that she has sexual-oriented problems. Really she is just there for revenge. With the help of an orderly who is also disgusted by the doctor's behavior, she sets it up to look like the doctor accidentally murdered her while trying to rape her. Then her "body" mysteriously disappears and reappears despite the doctor's best efforts to conceal his crime. She "haunts" him until he looses his mind and ends up a mental patient himself.

While this is certainly not a masterful film by any means, it's not really that bad, and if you are a big Malcolm McDowell fan you may even love it-- despite the general mediocrity of the movie, he shines. Whoever wrote the other review must have the attention-span of a doorknob. For a B-movie, it's really not that bad at all, and even has some charming and amusing moments (candy-gram, and I'll say no more).

You might want to avoid reading the plot description of "Disturbed" here on IMDb, as the sole one available rather bluntly gives away the essential plot twist of the film's final five minutes. Admittedly this denouement isn't particularly hard to predict, but still … it kind of spoils the fun factor.

"Disturbed" is an overlooked but vivid and entertaining enough psycho- thriller feature from the early 90's. The plot and setting are overly familiar, but the film nevertheless manages to keep you glued to the screen for an hour and a half. This is mostly thanks to a handful of truly atmospheric sequences and the more than adequate acting performances from the ensemble cast. "Disturbed" stars B-movie favorite Malcolm McDowell in his accustomed role of dangerous doctor, but he receives excellent support from multiple recognizable faces in the roles of his mental patients. There's Geoffrey Lewis ("The Devil's Rejects", "The Lawnmower Man"), Irwin Keyes ("House of 1.000 Corpses", "Chained Heat"), Clint Howard ("EvilSpeak", "Ticks"), Emerson Bixby ("Deep End") and even that creepy little guy who played all the Oompa-Loompas in Tim Burton's "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory". The film is already worth checking out if only to see all these names star as loonies! McDowell is the widely respected Dr. Derrick Russell, brilliant psychiatrist and owner of an eminent mental clinic. He also has the bad habit, however, of occasionally sneaking into the rooms of his female patients to drug and rape them. When he tries to rape the newly arrived patient Sandy Ramirez, she accidentally dies from an allergic reaction to the drugs. With the help of another patient, Dr. Russell develops an evil plan, but then the next morning the body appears to be vanished. Strange things begin to occur after that, and Dr. Russell is wondering if he isn't degenerating into a state of madness himself. "Disturbed" is a derivative and predictable thriller, but it's fairly uplifted thanks to McDowell's presence and thanks to the imaginative cinematography. The relatively unknown director Charles Winkler (son of producer Irwin Winkler) makes the asylum extra sinister and its inhabitants extra morbid through grim camera angles and eerie sounds of laughter, creaking doors, etc…

I think this movie was totally underrated. Malcolm McDowell's performance as Dr. Russell was brilliant. His personality transition during the course of the movie added a wonderful level of humor. I enjoyed the story line and found that the whole plot wasn't given away too early. To me, the movie was just what I think it was intended to be--light entertainment. Also I felt the Geoffrey Lewis's part as Michael added much to the overall story. He was the "straight man" and pulled of some great deadpan lines. One other bonus is that the movie shows that very fine line between sanity and insanity. I could watch this production a second time and be just as entertained.

I agree and disagree with all 9 reviews (to this point) on this flick to differing extents.

This was by no means a classic movie. It barely would be considered a good movie. But I did watch it and I don't regret my decision to do so.

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The crazy twist ending does leave a little to be desired. A mental patient who 'died' and a weird mental patient outwitting the crazy rapist doctor? I know you have to be crazy to rape your patients, but the nutty patients outwitting the doctor? I had issues believing that.

For the record, I liked the post credits little ending.

What can you say about a film in which you can hear the director call "Cut"? This should give one a taste for how the film is put together. The editing is off. The sound is off (notice the foley work that does not match the actions on screen). The work is like a working print, rather than a polished film.

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Listen to me. I must say that this movie was absolutely horrible. I had no idea what the point of this entire movie was! It starts with this incredibly stupid scene with the "doctor" injecting his patients, knocking them out to "experiment with them". It all takes place in an insane asylum. Eventually, the doctor gets this patient that is "attractive". He decides to "experiment" on her. Well, he ends up killing her. She was DEAD! And then the rest of the movie, her "ghost" haunts this doctor. I usually don't write to describe movies like this. But I feel it is my solemn duty to warn you NEVER to waste your time with this unimaginably horrible film. If you are watching this film to see the actor Malcolm McDowell, who is a fabulous actor, you are wasting your time. Go see A Clockwork Orange, a much better Malcolm McDowell film, MUCH better. Please, skip this awful movie. Start a petition in your community to have this movie burned and anyone who disagrees locked up. God be with anyone who decides to watch this movie despite my imminent warnings.

***SPOILERS**** A graying, unlike in the movie poster where he has jet black hair, Malcolm McDowell is the head shrink or psychiatrist Dr. Derrek "Sticky Fingers" Russell of the Bergen Field Mental Health Facility who's more interested in having sex with his very mentally unbalanced patients,women not men, then in curing them. It's his actions in the past that soon come to hunt him here in the presence when he's confronted with his new patient the sex crazed and a bit out of whack, to say the least, Sandy Ramirez, Pamela Gidley. Not all that cooperative with Dr. Russell's unorthodox methods in curing her he soon out of frustration loses himself and ends up killing Sandy with an overdose of penicillin a drug that Sandy is allegoric to!

Facing disbarment or worse, a charge of murder, Dr. Russell with the help of his assistant former mental patient Michael Kahn, Geoffrey Lewis, plans to bury Sandy before morning and make it look like she escaped from the facility to cover up his tracks. What really makes thing very difficult for the pair is the next day Sandy's body is nowhere to be found! At first feeling that someone is playing a trick on him Dr. Russell is told by one of his patients Pat Tuel, Irwin Keyes, that it was he in fact who killed Sandy and buried her on the hospital grounds! Obviously knowing that nutty as a fruitcake Tuel is full of it Dr. Russell can't discount his knowledge of knowing that Sandy is dead and even more the fact that he claims to know where her body is buried!

****SPOILERS**** looking and in some cases digging all over the hospital grounds to find Sandy she suddenly appears out of the blue fulling practically into Dr. Russell's lap from a tree looking as dead as a doornail! This screws up Dr. Russell's mind so much that he later, after together with his partner in crime Micheal Kahn, in trying to cremate her body in the tool shack he instead ends up burning alive his top aid at he hospital Nurse Francine, Priscilla Pointer. Now completely mad or nuttier then any of his patients the truth comes out to what were behind the reasons for driving the good doctor Russell over the edge! ****MAJOR SPOILER***And it was all connected in what he did some ten years ago to a patient of his that he drove to commit suicide! And that patient just happened to be Sandy Ramirez's mother!

Malcolm McDowell has done much better films (see "The Barber"), but none worse than this amateurish atrocity. The script, if there was one, makes no sense whatsoever. The acting by Malcolm McDowell, Geoffrey Lewis, Pricilla Pointer, Pamela Gidley, and everyone else is pathetic. I have no idea where the positive reviews here came from, but I guarantee that "Disturbed" is terrible. Don't believe me? Believe this. After reviewing over 800 movies on IMDb, I say this is absolutely the worst film I have seen, and I have viewed some real crap for sure. Beyond ridiculous, the script is not developed past a fifth grade level. You have been warned. - MERK