Jeff Buhler, writer of the screen adaptation of MIDNIGHT MEAT TRAIN, has already moved on to his next project: writing and directing INSANITARIUM.
He described the plot to the guys over at Dread Central: “The story centers on this guy who’s got a history of mental illness in his family. His sister is his only living relative and she gets committed to an insane asylum. He knows he has to save her from this place, and the only way he can do that is to convince the powers that be that he’s insane so he can get committed and then break her out.”
Cool enough. I’m sure the plan goes off without a hitch, eh Jeff? “Without revealing too much, he finds out about a new drug that the doctor running the asylum is giving the patients that’s turning them into cannibalistic psychotic freaks. So of course he then has to stop them.”
Yeah, the same thing happens when I take too many caffeine pills. What’s cool is that though INSANITARIUM hasn’t been officially greenlit yet, Buhler already has the perfect location: an abandoned hospital in L.A. We can’t have enough psychotic mental patient movies out there (I still think the freaky opening minutes of HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL should’ve lasted the entire picture), so here’s wishing good luck to Jeff!
For the full interview, click it HERE.
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