As anyone who has ever watched CSI: Miami knows, David Caruso can be an...interesting...actor. So, when I came across this movie with him in it...yeah, wasn't too sure I wanted to watch it. But I decided to watch it because I was in the mood for a horror movie (and that's what it's being touted as). Well, it wasn't what I'd call a horror movie but it did turn out to be okay. As more of a suspense/thriller, it had elements of Jacob's Ladder (a movie I love).

The premise is, an asbestos removal crew take a job in an abandoned psychiatric hospital. Really, that's all I'm saying, any more and I'll give it away; IMDb's primary synopsis doesn't tell you much more:

"Tensions rise within an asbestos cleaning crew as they work in an abandoned mental hospital with a horrific past that seems to be coming back."

As far as the quality of the movie, the acting, blah, blah, blah...Caruso isn't even half as stiff in this as he is in CSI: Miami, so he actually does a pretty good job (I never watched NYPD Blue, so I can't compare this to that). The only other well-known name in the movie is Paul Guilfoyle, from CSI.

The hospital portions were filmed on location at the Danvers State Hospital, site of the 1958 movie, Home Before Dark (have not seen it, but now that I know it was filmed there I shall have to watch it!). Danvers, in Massachusetts, was built in 1878 in an unusual shape -- it resembles a bird (or a bat...). Due to budget cuts within the mental health system, Danvers was closed on June 24, 1992. I tell you all this, but, interestingly enough, much of it comes out in the movie! I find it fascinating that they used a genuine psychiatric hospital and even used some of it's real history! Now, if only more people would do that...

It's worth a watch.