Call of the Crazy

DOCTOR MILLICENT PRAGUE (47) runs the old asylum of Mercy Hills. At night she is haunted by the wailing from one of the rooms, where a patient, ANNA (45), has been closed away. Millicent attempts to calm Anna down, but is attacked in the process. In desperation, Millicent offers DOCTOR HARLAN BEARDSLEY (40) a job at Mercy Hills. Harlan initially declines. He changes his mind when it becomes apparent that Harlan’s marriage to JENNIFER (34) is in trouble and Jennifer packs her belongings and leaves Harlan. After reviewing Anna’s files, Harlan is intrigued and agrees to spend two weeks at Mercy Hills helping Millicent. Harlan meets and befriends a nurse, ZELDA (67), and is able to learn a bit about the patients and buildings from her. He is informed that Anna is obsessed with an ex patient of the asylum, PETE, and continuously escapes from her room at night, searching for him. Harlan discovers strange happenings in the old deserted building at the Mercy Hills Asylum. When he discovers a patient naked and shackled in the deserted building, Harlan questions the methods being used. Harlan, disgusted at the way the patients are treated, attempts to leave Mercy Hills, but Millicent has other plans, and Harlan is kept prisoner. By treating Anna and searching for answers, Harlan discovers that the old asylum holds the haunting secrets of the past events that took place. When some of the spirits of long dead patients start attacking Harlan, he learns that he is the grandson of the original owner of the asylum, and that Anna is the result of a rape that took place in the old asylum. Harlan realizes that he and Anna hold the key to helping to free the spirits. Harlan places Anna under hypnosis, and together they uncover the horrifying truth of Anna’s life as well as Zelda’s and Pete’s, and secrets that bind the spirits to the old asylum. By helping Anna, Harlan sets the spirits free, and helps himself in the process.