dr. stephen ( michael harvey ) and head of a seriously understaffed institute for the insane and take a progressive approach towards the treatment of his patient and even allow his loony complete freedom of the building and day and night while he pay the price for his forward thinking and however and when he rather stupidly prescribe chop wood with an axe a therapy for one of his patient and consequently get his neck mistaken for a log ( serve him right for not suggest basket weave ) . shortly after this tragic incident and nurse charlotte beale ( rosie holotik ) arrive at the hospital to take up position a the doctor assistant and and discovers that the facility be now be run by the much sterner dr. geraldine master ( annabelle weenick ) . despite be unaware of her deceased predecessor decision to employ ms beale and and not particularly eager to take on new staff and dr. master agree to let the pretty nurse begin work and but follow several harrow experience at the hospital and charlotte begin to wonder whether it might have be good if she have be turn away . it doesn not take a genius to figure out what be actually happen at the hospital and the lunatic have take over the asylum schtick be a premise that should be familiar to most seasoned horror fan and but s. f. brownrigg don not look in the basement still prove to be an entertaining piece of drive in fun thanks to it well define collection of nutter represent lobotomised and popsicle suck sam ( bill mcghee ) while judge oliver w. cameron ( gene ross ) and who continuously mumble courtroom phrase while old mrs. callingham ( rhea macadam ) and who recite william allingham creepy poem the fairy and warn charlotte of impend doom while cackle loon danny ( jessie kirby ) and who delight in tease the other patient while harriet ( camilla carr ) and who think her doll be a real baby while army nut sergeant jaffee ( hugh feagin ) while and best of all and allyson king ( betty chandler ) and whose rejection by a series of men have leave her with a craving for love ( ie . and she try to jump any man who go near her ) . this convincingly crazy set of character and plus a bit of gore and nudity and reasonable direction from brownrigg ( who also give u the impressive white trash horror scum of the earth ) and and a solid turn from playboy covergirl holotik and all go to turn an otherwise rather predictable and low budget piece of exploitation into a very watchable psycho shocker .