***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!
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!