The Incident

Plot synopsis:
Asylum Blackout is a horror thriller from the movie director Alexandre Courtes. The story starts with George (Rupert Evans) working in the kitchen of a mental hospital called Sans Asylum. Georges dream is to hit it big in the rock industry with his band mates Max (Kenny Doughty) and Ricky (Joseph Kennedy) but unfortunately the band hasnt made a name yet. George manages to get his two unemployed friends a job at the asylum and so all of them try to earn their bed and butter by serving in the kitchen at the mental asylum. The job at the mental facility pays well and there is virtually no contact with the inmates as there is a plastic window through which the food is passed to the inmates and so the trio isnt really worried of getting into any kind of dangerous situation. Little do they know that soon a storm is going to hit and everything is going to go wrong. Some minutes into Asylum Blackout and the audience witnesses a huge storm that blows out the electricity completely. The electric doors inside the mental hospital open and all the inmates break free. Now because this is a very high security prison, most of the inmates are very dangerous. They havent been taking their medications under the direction of a particularly bad inmate for long and so they are out for blood. The three group members try to save themselves from the crazies and stay alive until help can arrive. Luckily, one of the band members, Ricky, manages to hide himself in the freezer but George and max are still running from the inmates. When the inmates cannot get their hands on the three, they feed on the other inmates who are weaker than them. They also kill off the guards as well as the nurses and receptionists etc. It gets even darker as the night progresses but still there is no evidence of police.
Finally, by the end of Asylum Blackout, we realize that not all of the kitchen staff will make it out alive but the movie does wrap up quite suddenly.

Tags: insanity, murder

Review:
I was watching this expecting it to be another run of the mill low budget flick, especially with the rating which almost convinced me not to watch it at all.Any movie that has you really thinking about it after its over is way better than the fluff I have seen come out recently and this one had me pondering the ending over and over.IMDb should start having some categories based on genre that can be rated so the ratings are not so lump sum weighted.Anyway anybody looking for a good weekend movie this one is worth a watch..
Inmates rioting in the asylum is a good idea for a movie and can be great if done right.Watch this movie you'll enjoy it especially if you like insanity like me.7/10.
But i was delightfully mistaken.it's Not great but for a low budget horror film its pretty darn good.
very good for what it was and better than a lot of big budget films out there.
Two aspiring musicians whom are working as cooks in a secluded mental asylum to make ends meet and to further finance their dead-end dream job are in the aforementioned hospital when the power goes out and the patients revolt, leaving the cooks and rest of the workers to fight for their lives.Apart from some brutal scenes the movie seemed a tad on the tame side considering a promising set-up premise.
Great acting, Great production, decent gory shots, but a weak script and sad storyline with not much going on besides.I would recommend this movie to those who like a good torture porn flick..
What horror concept is more traditional and effective than the setting of an asylum for the mentally insane during a thunderstorm and a power blackout?
"Asylum Blackout" which naturally is a much more appealing and appetizing title for a low-budget horror flick, first caught my attention because it's a partially Belgian co-production (I'm from Belgium, hence) and it premiered at the Brussels' International Festival of Fantastic Films a few years ago.
Either way, being a Belgian horror freak, I'm still very proud to see a link with my country, especially because I liked "The Incident" quite a lot.
Admittedly the film starts out a little too slow and primitive, while the confusing and open-for-interpretation climax is arguably annoying, but everything in between is a nice demonstration of sadistic, raw and nerve-wrecking terror!
Near the end of a long working day, a heavy thunderstorm breaks loose and lightening causes a power failure inside the asylum.
George and his friend attempt to hide in storage rooms and offices but the crazies, led by the vicious inmate Harry Green, hunt them down as well.
The film allegedly takes place in the year 1989, which is quite clever because this way the writers didn't have to take into account mobile phones, GPS systems etc I'm not going to go too much into detail about the bizarre ending.
In Alexandre Courtès' film The Incident, the setting is Washington 1989 where we are introduced to a group of young band members that work in the kitchen of an insane asylum.
Patients in the asylum walk around like zombies and follow strict patterns in an effort to get fed at the fortified kitchen.George (Rupert Evans), Max (Kenny Doughty) and Ricky (Joseph Kennedy) have just played a gig the night before when George is requested to come in early to accept a delivery of supplies for the kitchen.
On little to no sleep, George makes his way to the compound and begins prepping for the daily meals when he is met by his fellow workers/band members.But on this dark and rainy evening, a power outage throws the asylum into darkness.
George and the others are asked to assist in getting the excited patients back to their holding cells, but when two patients violently escape their escort, it begins a night of terror where the patients indeed run the asylum and where the guards and the young kitchen workers run from their lives from the horde of dangerously rabid maniacs.Director Alexandre Courtes makes his feature film debut with The Incident after a fairly successful career directing music videos for bands such as U2 and The White Stripes.
Courtes takes his time in unleashing the terrors that will be the mainstay of the film and uses the first 30 minutes to introduce us to the characters on both sides of the protective glass.
We are also introduced to Harry Green (Richard Brake) – an asylum patient that George believes is the ringleader of the horde when the proverbial poop hits the fan.When the patients begin to overrun the facility, the screenplay as written by S.Craig Zahler and Jérôme Fansten has the characters doing what is rarely evident in today's horror films – he has the characters acting intelligently and making the right decisions (even if it comes with unexpected consequences).
They also equip themselves with knives and other weapons and hide out when they find safe haven rather than wandering the halls as bait for the manic fish.The film is complimented by the great atmosphere of the setting much like the abandoned asylum in Session 9 and without windows or doors leading to an escape, you can't help but feel for the helplessness of the situation.Courtes doesn't spend time on the background of the inmates or the guards.
Backstory does not matter.There is a bit of a letdown in a twist implemented near the end of the film.
Night itself and we think it would have had a more satisfying ending if things just ended as they were (thought to have) played out.Still, The Incident is an above average horror film with a few good kills (ok, one) and one scene that had two audience members at the Toronto International Film Festival faint in recognition.
It might not be the best asylum film ever (or even in the top 25), but it was refreshing to watching smart individuals acting smart when their lives were on the line and we appreciated the effort.www.killerreviews.com.
In 1989, in Washington, the friends George (Rupert Evans), Max (Kenny Doughty) and Ricky (Joseph Kennedy) are aspirant musicians that play in a band in their leisure time.
With the mental hospital in the darkness, the inmates led by the cruel Harry Green (Richard Brake) attack the guards and staff.
Will they survive?"The Incident" is a sadistic torture film with an unclear and unintelligible conclusion.
The situation is absurd since there are just a few guards to control violent criminals and the security is based on systems that stop working with a power outage.
I am sure you will enjoy this film just don't watch it if you have a weak stomach, or after eating a big meal lol.
It's a movie about an Asylum (as an alternate title does suggest, original title being "The Incident") and the people within.
I just love films set in a dilapidated derelict insane asylums/prisons.
In fact, just tune out five minutes early and you've got a really good movie.What I want to point out is this film's satisfying dramatic structure.
The character of George made me care about this horror movie.
Asylum Blackout works because it gives its characters dignity and its story world depth.
The Incident is the closest we can get to a live action of Outlast minus the first person view and government experiment.It short and the ending is not on high note but the look and feel is right there with the right amount of blood and gore in about 85 minutes of pure horror and mayhem make The Incident a great watch for brainless movie night.
Just finished watching The Incident (Asylum Blackout) after coming across it in one of the Horror lists here.
It's a pretty decent Horror films with a very original set up story - very much like Zombie Apocalypse only without the zombies.
The "bad guys" being insane convicts in an asylum made it all the more realistic and horrifying.Film was good in all aspects, but didn't shine.
Acting was good (especially on the convicts' part, I've seen the inside of a psychiatric ward before and I can tell the director must have done some very thorough research!), screenplay and script were OK, all in all a decent film.As for the ending - a swing and a miss.
The ending here was simply too puzzling for my own personal taste.Like I said film was good, didn't shine except for the convicts' acting and the original story.
First of all, I get the "Blackout" thing, but that doesn't mean that the screen has to be so dark that you can't even see what is happening during the whole movie.
That being said, I think asylums or mental hospitals are great place to set horror movies, but this one manages to make even those creepy places unscary.
"The Incident" (aka "Asylum Blackout") turned out to be nothing at all as to what I had expected it to be.
Especially with the rating it had scored here on IMDb.The story is about a group of cooks at an asylum for deranged criminals.
The cooks get trapped in the dark bowels of the asylum one day as the power disappears, and with the inmates on the prowl, neither cooks nor asylum staff are safe.Well, the story was adequate, but it just trotted along in a slow, dull pace and never really picked up pace before the last 10 minutes of the movie or so.
Well, right up to the ending, which was just a slap in the face to the audience.The good part about the movie is the atmosphere in the asylum, both with and without power.
Both were actually nicely done here - just a shame the rest of the movie failed.The acting in the movie was good enough, given the fact that people didn't have the best of script to work with.
Nothing out of the ordinary here though, mind you."The Incident" is not really a particularly great movie, it was slow and uneventful to say the least.
My wife and I just watched Asylum Blackout (or The Incident...which one is it) last night and I have to say, we mostly enjoyed this movie.
At one point, shortly after the blackout (this isn't a spoiler since its in the name) we both agreed that this movie was doing a real good job at showing what it might be like to be trapped inside a building with the criminally insane and having no power.The look, feel, setting, and plot to this movie are all well done.
Even the acting, especially the performance of the main character George, done by Rupert Evans, is very good.
When things start to go badly, George's decisions don't follow the typical 'forehead slappers' that often happen in movies like this.
Instead, the filmmakers tried to add depth to the story by including twists, that simply did not need to be there.I am actually getting sick and tired of movies with twists in them.
M. Night Shyamalan did a good job early in his career with the twist ending, but come on people, sometimes a cigar is just a cigar!
Asylum Blackout is a good movie, with a good plot, a creepy setting, good acting, and lots of gore, but the filmmakers tried to make it into something that didn't, and by the end of the movie, I found myself frustrated and disappointed.
If any aspiring filmmakers read this review, please understand that not ever movie needs a twist or some type of profound deeper meaning to be revealed at the end.
Movies with twists have become so common these days, that I think a good twist ending to a movie would be no twist at all!.
The dark and gritty setting of the Asylum is well done especially given the low budget they were dealing with.
I thought they were going to really go somewhere with the character played by Kenny Doughty but the depth is just not there although he gives a great performance in a small supporting way.If you can get past the lack of characters you'll really enjoy the rest of the movie for its story and gore and horror genre elements.
Especially towards the end of the film you'll really see some really twisted kills and torture scenes but without being completely gratuitous.
As with many indie films, especially horror ones, the director is a newcomer to the scene.
The concept of how the film plays with your mind and really shows you the mental instability of Evan's character will appeal to those that like a really twisted story.
For a low budget horror film this was worth seeing and while it isn't perfect, it fills the quota well.
Creepy twisted good time & great addition to the genre.
This movie was a special treat for me, something I was waiting for that was totally original with good tension, good gore, great atmosphere, and great acting by the lead character George, the cook at a lock down facility for the criminally insane.
I had quite a bit of fun too as my sick humor was in full engagement.Although it was a great film it chose to do what many films in this genre do, leave a spacey surreal ending that I believe some people may interpret in the wrong way.
I left the theater shaky and disoriented, kind of like when you narrowly miss being in a terrible accident, but I was left ultimately disappointed in the uncapitalized promise of the movie.So what if the inmates really did run the asylum?
Like most aspiring rock stars, George and his friends have day jobs, in this case they cook and serve to inmates at the Sans Asylum for the criminally insane.
I think I can tell you, with out spoiling because you'll see it a mile away, George ends up quite mad.
When an electrical storm blows out the asylum's wiring the inmates are let loose and the cooks face a battle for survival.What director Alexandre Courtès and writers S.
Craig Zahler and Jérôme Fansten fail to understand in setting their plot premise is that asylums of this type simply do not exist.
A complete blood-fest free-for-all, akin to a prison full of zombies rather than human beings, is what we get instead.So there's a suspension of disbelief problem here, in no way shored up by the long winded prologue revealing George's musical ambitions, his life with girlfriend Lyn and the activities of his fellow band mates.In short, this is an excuse to put a few 'victims' in a horrific situation then enact some cruel torture and imaginative killing.The 'twist' at the end was a confusing addition, revealing this to be something more than just a gore-fest.
Though quite why more was not made of this cross-genre attempt is hard to understand since it would have fleshed out and made interesting an otherwise one dimensional story.Frankly, the final twist will be utterly lost on the kind of bloodthirsty bottom feeding gore-fan for whom this movie will hold the most appeal.
I really wanted to see what he got out of the ending as everyone seems to have an opinion about it, but no one really knows.I really liked George (Rupert Evans); whom the movie mostly focused on.
Rupert Evans did a great job and he looked good too!
This makes me think he was not in fact crazy all along as some have suggested.The bottom line is this, if you want to see something creepy and a little gory at times, this is the movie to watch.
It's not as popular as some other horror movies we've grown to love or hate, but it's worth viewing.
George, Max and Ricky are musicians who work as cooks in the Sans Asylum to earn money to rent a studio to record their songs.
The asylum is in an isolated area and is monitored by a team led by the security guard J.B. George has a concert but J.B. asks him to arrive early in the morning to receive the supplies for the kitchen.
George and the other kitchen workers hide from the horde of violent madmen.....Well here we go, it's another one of those silly movies, where people run around dark corridors flashing a torch, and saying to the inmates 'look, here I am, I'm supposed to be hiding, but I'm flashing a torch'.But this one tries to be clever by adding a really intelligent ending, which falls flat on its face.It's not the actors faults, they are really good, especially the performances of the inmates,its just the slap dash writing, they had something good to work with, but instead go for the awful stalk and slash and up the gore, whilst thinking 'it doesn't matter, we have this great ending'.It's not great, and the film fails..
I went into this thinking it would be a dumb, low budget horror movie.
I would have preferred if the ending could have explained what happened that made the patients go crazy, instead of leaving things to interpretation.
In 1989, in Washington, the friends George, Max and Ricky are aspirant musicians that play in a band in their leisure time.
The asylum is located in an isolated area and is monitored by a team led by the security guard J.B. The deranged inmates are criminals and they take pills to stay calm.
George leaves his girlfriend Lynn without sleeping and heads to the asylum.
While he is preparing the meals for the insane inmates with his colleagues, there is a storm and a power outage in the area and the monitoring system fails.
While he is preparing the meals for the insane inmates with his colleagues, there is a storm and a power outage in the area and the monitoring system fails.
With the mental hospital in the darkness, the inmates led by the cruel Harry Green attack the guards and staff.