a nurse travel to a rural psychiatric clinic run by doctor stephen . she be upset to learn that the doctor have die and leave his assistant doctor master in charge . she be unnerve by the inmate include a crazy judge and a shell shock vietnam vet and a catatonic and a creepy nympho and but be soon befriend by a hulking black man sam . she need all the friend she can get a people be die all around her . don not look in the basement be my first horror film of s. f brownrigg . despite it low budget it manage to provide some genuine chill plus a nice amount of cheap gore include a particularly nasty scene with a desk spindle through an eyeball . the climax of inmate take control over mental asylum be an intense melange of wild camera work and gore and pierce scream . positive .