The Film (3/5)

    Doom Asylum opens with a lawyer Mitch, drunk driving down the road with his girlfriend Judy (Patty Mullen, Frankenhooker).  I guess no one taught them to drive defensively, and the two in the midst of celebrating Judy's millions dollars win in a lawsuit end up dead in a car-wreck, or so it seems. Mitch ends up surviving the wreck, and waking up on a slab in the morgue and killing the coroners who thought him dead. His body, however, is a bloody-fleshy mess. 8 years later Judy's daughter Kiki (Mullen again) goes to the site of her Mother's death to investigate, and finds more than she bargained for. First a Plasmatics style punk rock band Tina and the Tots, but also that Mitch still resides in the hospital, and is out to murder them all in broad daylight.

    I'll just get this out of the way. Doom Asylum isn't a great film. I'm actually sort of conflicted about my feelings on this one. Because on one hand I actually enjoyed parts of it, and found it entertaining. The characters are basic slasher movies clichés, and they work. Their performances are enjoyable, and the dialogue at times is as campy as can possibly be in a film like this.

     The fact that this film was shot in broad daylight was an interesting decision by the filmmakers to make it stand out against similar slasher films, and the use of the decrepit asylum was a nice touch. The one negative I can find is the use of footage from old "Todd Slaughter" films which they use to comment on the on-screen action, and sort of drags down the pacing of the film itself. 

Audio/Video (4/5)

    Arrow Video presents Doom Asylum 2 different ways 1:33:1 for fans of the home video version and 1:85:1 widescreen both 1080p in an AVC encode and fully restored for this release. Everything here looks quite solid and natural detail is fine, colors are well reproduced, there is softness throughout, but nothing overly distracting.

    Audio is handled by an LPCM mono track in English. It comes through nice and clear with no discernible issues.

Extras (3.5/5)

    We get 2 new commentary tracks one with the Hysteria Continues and another with screenwriter Richard Marx.  We also get an amazing selection of new and archival interviews with the cast and crew.

Overall

    Doom Asylum is a solid, but largely unremarkable slasher from a time when these were a dime a dozen. The Blu-ray from Arrow does their usual thing, and makes it look and sound amazing, and gives it a nice slate of extra features. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.