| St Mariah's
Hospital for the criminally insane
possesses secrets. Reporter, Ellen
Cole is determined to uncover
one of these secrets. Posing as
an agency nurse, she manages to
get herself into the sterile,
white corridors of the hospital,
where she has all but hard proof
of the abuse and miss-care of
the patients under its protection.
Ellen's nose for uncovering injustices
is further motivated by the fact
that her brother, Peter, is one
of these patients, locked away
for a crime that Ellen knows he
didn't commit.
Dr Charles
Leonard controls the asylum
with an iron rule of fear and
loathing. He is unaware of the
outside presence that has infiltrated
his castle. He has more pressing
matters to deal with. He is
hosting a Christmas party in
the main hall of the Asylum,
a party at which he intends
to make an important announcement.
Meanwhile,
Ellen has located her brother
who seems to be very agitated
and spouts off some incomprehensible
ramblings about 'Cell number
8'. Having gathered some proof
of the abuse she had suspected
by way of a particular patient
named Stiles (a multiple murderer
who can't remember any of the
killings due to his blackouts)
being beaten, Ellen decides
to investigate Cell number 8.
What she finds there, changes
her entire outlook on, not only
the Asylum, but the realities
of life itself.
Cell Number
8 isn't a cell at all, but a
secret passageway to another
level of the Asylum. A level
only lit by candle light, where
strange, dark figures lurk in
the cells. Ellen has to hide
as Dr Leonard and his head orderly,
Sturges, lead one of the insane
inmates to one of these cells
and pushes him in. Ellen cannot
believe her eyes as the patient
is ravaged by the occupant of
the cell. A Vampire!
Ellen witnesses
the macabre sight of Dr Leonard
ripping out the heart of the
vampire and sending it away
for tests. He is trying to find
something that is present in
the highly charged blood of
a vampire that has just made
a fresh kill. Could it be anything
to do with the supposed immortality
of these beasts?
Ellen is captured
and Dr Leonard interrogates
her and calls the police. Knowing
now what the true fate of the
patients in this 'Hospital is,
Ellen learns that Peter is to
be next and with no other option,
she causes a distraction by
letting out the insane inmates,
to buy her time to get Peter
out of there.
However, the
Vampires in their creepy area
of the Asylum, have not been
idle. Their leader, Stelinger,
has already initiated his plan
for their escape. He has bitten
one of the staff nurses, Nurse
Caldwell, and she now stalks
the corridors possessing his
power as a true immortal. She
becomes the most vicious and
terrifying creature of the night,
and lets her brothers and sisters
out.
Now both Vampires
and criminally insane patients
are loose and the only result
can be a blood bath! Ellen teams
up with Stiles, the patient
with the murderous blackouts,
and PC Williams, a rookie Bobby
who was called to the Asylum,
along with his now dead Sergeant,
to take Ellen away.
Can this unlikely
Trio find their way out of the
blood soaked corridors? Can
Ellen save Peter? Will Nurse
Caldwell lead the Vampires to
victory and break out into the
outside world. Will the inmates
for that matter?
And let's
not forget Dr Leonard's little
gathering. Could this turn out
to be the Christmas Bash to
end them all?
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