
Newgate discovers the actual asylum staff locked in the boiler room, who explain that Lamb and Finn drugged their drinks and led a revolt. Before Newgate can drink it, Graves causes him to spill his drink and quietly insists that he flee the asylum, but Newgate refuses to leave without her. During Christmas Eve's feast, Newgate and Finn argue and, as a truce, Finn proposes a toast. Lamb says that he does not believe in drugging or incarcerating patients, and he encourages their delusions when he feels it will bring them greater happiness. Lamb's unorthodox methods surprise Newgate. Silas Lamb, where the young man introduces himself as Dr. Finn escorts him to the office of the superintendent, Dr. A group of armed men led by Mickey Finn allow him entry. The young man later arrives at Stonehearst Asylum, where he desires to take up residency. Though the patient protests that she is sane, the professor points out that all mental patients claim to be sane. In 1899, an Oxford University professor demonstrates a case of female hysteria, Eliza Graves, before his class, including a young man. The film, starring Kate Beckinsale, Jim Sturgess, Michael Caine, Ben Kingsley, and David Thewlis, was released on October 24, 2014. It is loosely based on the 1845 short story " The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether" by Edgar Allan Poe. Stonehearst Asylum, previously known as Eliza Graves, is an American Gothic film directed by Brad Anderson and written by Joseph Gangemi.
