Old Asylums

As the trailer is one for a psychological horror, we thought it would be effective if the location is set in a mental/lunatic asylum/psychiatric institution in the 1940's.

Like I did with the 1940's, I have done some research on asylums to get more information on what I could add to the trailer. 

"Before 1844, the mentally ill were stashed away in prisons and the basements of public buildings. But in the middle of the 19th century, reformers like Dorothea Dix pushed to improve the standing of those with serious mental illness, an effort that led to the construction of sprawling psychiatric hospitals with names like the State Lunatic Hospital at Danvers and the Athens Lunatic Asylum."

What were asylums like in the 1940-1950's?

"There were experiments in frontal lobotomy. A prefrontal lobotomy (meaning cutting a lobe of the brain.) Like other brain operations, frontal lobotomy was associated with risks of severe brain damage."

"They mistreated there patients very bad." 

"Prison."