kapelusznik18 ***SPOILERS**** A graying, unlike in the movie poster where he has jet black hair, Malcolm McDowell is the head shrink or psychiatrist Dr. Derrek "Sticky Fingers" Russell of the Bergen Field Mental Health Facility who's more interested in having sex with his very mentally unbalanced patients,women not men, then in curing them. It's his actions in the past that soon come to hunt him here in the presence when he's confronted with his new patient the sex crazed and a bit out of whack, to say the least, Sandy Ramirez, Pamela Gidley. Not all that cooperative with Dr. Russell's unorthodox methods in curing her he soon out of frustration loses himself and ends up killing Sandy with an overdose of penicillin a drug that Sandy is allegoric to! Facing disbarment or worse, a charge of murder, Dr. Russell with the help of his assistant former mental patient Michael Kahn, Geoffrey Lewis, plans to bury Sandy before morning and make it look like she escaped from the facility to cover up his tracks. What really makes thing very difficult for the pair is the next day Sandy's body is nowhere to be found! At first feeling that someone is playing a trick on him Dr. Russell is told by one of his patients Pat Tuel, Irwin Keyes, that it was he in fact who killed Sandy and buried her on the hospital grounds! Obviously knowing that nutty as a fruitcake Tuel is full of it Dr. Russell can't discount his knowledge of knowing that Sandy is dead and even more the fact that he claims to know where her body is buried!****SPOILERS**** looking and in some cases digging all over the hospital grounds to find Sandy she suddenly appears out of the blue fulling practically into Dr. Russell's lap from a tree looking as dead as a doornail! This screws up Dr. Russell's mind so much that he later, after together with his partner in crime Micheal Kahn, in trying to cremate her body in the tool shack he instead ends up burning alive his top aid at he hospital Nurse Francine, Priscilla Pointer. Now completely mad or nuttier then any of his patients the truth comes out to what were behind the reasons for driving the good doctor Russell over the edge! ****MAJOR SPOILER***And it was all connected in what he did some ten years ago to a patient of his that he drove to commit suicide! And that patient just happened to be Sandy Ramirez's mother!

merklekranz Malcolm McDowell has done much better films (see "The Barber"), but none worse than this amateurish atrocity. The script, if there was one, makes no sense whatsoever. The acting by Malcolm McDowell, Geoffrey Lewis, Pricilla Pointer, Pamela Gidley, and everyone else is pathetic. I have no idea where the positive reviews here came from, but I guarantee that "Disturbed" is terrible. Don't believe me? Believe this. After reviewing over 800 movies on IMDb, I say this is absolutely the worst film I have seen, and I have viewed some real crap for sure. Beyond ridiculous, the script is not developed past a fifth grade level. You have been warned. - MERK

one4now4 I love this movie. It's hilarious, hellishly titillating, great at messing with the mind, and even enjoyable on its cheezier merits. In it, Malcolm McDowell plays a crooked psychiatrist who has made a habit of periodically abducting pretty patients from their rooms and raping them. At one point, he ends up making a major mistake and it looks pretty much like he and a patient of his have actually killed the sexy new patient he was going to ravage next. Soon, this corrupt scumbag starts to really flip his lid, not able to tell if the woman they killed is actually dead or not. The photography, the music, the sound, all of it was PERFECT! These filmmakers really know how to capture feelings of paranoia and utter dementia. Also, this movie is anti-psychiatry in all the right ways. Believe you me, I've been to some of these places! I know how those @ssholes really are, and it looks like Charles Winkler and company know, too. I do have to admit that there are a lot of typical "nut" cliches going on here, seeing as how mental patients are often portrayed as retarded people when they actually give off the appearance of being "normal" about eight times out of ten. Still, even this can be forgiveable because this movie was so much warped fun. The opening scene is pretty depressing and the end scene does have the director yelling "Cut it!", but one of the great things about this movie is watching it make a frenzied transition from dead-seriousness to absurdist hilarity with every further minute that passes. "Disturbed" is a minor classic that is tragically, painfully overlooked and underrated. It must be seen, so go watch it.

Xq_Smee Listen to me. I must say that this movie was absolutely horrible. I had no idea what the point of this entire movie was! It starts with this incredibly stupid scene with the "doctor" injecting his patients, knocking them out to "experiment with them". It all takes place in an insane asylum. Eventually, the doctor gets this patient that is "attractive". He decides to "experiment" on her. Well, he ends up killing her. She was DEAD! And then the rest of the movie, her "ghost" haunts this doctor. I usually don't write to describe movies like this. But I feel it is my solemn duty to warn you NEVER to waste your time with this unimaginably horrible film. If you are watching this film to see the actor Malcolm McDowell, who is a fabulous actor, you are wasting your time. Go see A Clockwork Orange, a much better Malcolm McDowell film, MUCH better. Please, skip this awful movie. Start a petition in your community to have this movie burned and anyone who disagrees locked up. God be with anyone who decides to watch this movie despite my imminent warnings.