Asylum Night is the debut feature from new horror production company, Revolt Films. And what a debut! This film is a crazy, witty, intelligent, blood-soaked and triumphant tour de force.

Newspaper reporter, Ellen Cole, goes undercover as an agency nurse at a local mental hospital where her brother is a patient. Staff and patients have been mysteriously disappearing and Ellen is about to unearth some very peculiar goings on! But even her keen nose for trouble couldn't have anticipated the terrifying secrets she is about to unveil.

But Ellen isn't the only one undercover. Doctors of medicine turn out to be mad, power-hungry scientists, behavioural psychologists turn out to be unhinged man-eaters and vampish nurses turn into blood-sucking vampires. It's no surprise really, then, when Ellen turns for help to the sanest person she can find - and he just happens to be a psychotic serial killer!

At times it hard to believe that this film is, not only a debut feature for Revolt films, but also, a low budget affair. Director Brad Watson uses his limited budget to full-effect, ably abetted by superb lighting direction, a cooky, punk soundtrack provided by Sixty Mile Smile and great lead performances. Special mention to Adrienne Carlyle as the mild-mannered agency nurse turned feisty vampire-hunter, Ellen Cole. The touching scenes between Ellen and her brother, Peter, played by Nicholas Levene, offer a beautifully composed juxtaposition to the crazy, eroticism of her vampish counterpart Michelle Esclape! And, surely, there has never been such an endearing serial killer as David Horton's splash-back crazed inmate, Stiles. Horton delicately underplays his psychosis to perfection and girls, please don't send your fan mail to The Horror Channel - I'd only get jealous!

Of course, Asylum Night has its limitations, but they are far too inconsequential to taint the sheer brilliance and delight of this comic vampire horror which heralds a new dawn in good-quality schlock horror. But before the new dawn arrives, you'll have to get through one crazy night in the asylum first!

Somebody give Revolt Film the money for their next feature - the horror world has waiting too long for genius like this!

DIRECTOR: Brad WatsonSTARRING: Carlyle, Michelle Esclapez, David Horton and Elliot Hill.