The Fifth Floor

The Nightmare Is Knowing You're Sane.

Nov. 15, 1978

01:30:00

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Genres: Horror, Thriller

Overview:

A young woman collapses on the disco dance floor of what's revealed to be strychnine poisoning. Assuming that this is an attempt at suicide, her boyfriend and doctor wrongly commit her to the Fifth Floor, an insane asylum.

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A disco dancer who through no fault of her own accidentally overdoses on drugs and collapses at a disco. She is misdiagnosed as suicidal and sent to a psychiatric ward which is on the fifth floor of Cedar Springs Hospital. There she finds herself alone with no help, not even from her boyfriend who refuses to get her out of there. She becomes the subject of interest by an unbalanced orderly.

Director: Howard Avedis