The 5th floor is one of those drive in type b movies that's sort of like one flew of the cuckoo nest without the comedy . It's very dark and boasts a very good cast Diane Hull is a disco queen who is accidentally poisoned by a bartender and taken to an insane asylum, a sleazy orderly played by Bo Hopkins , Julie Adams as a nurse , a very young Robert Englund years before he played Freddy Krueger, Anthony James as a very unstable patient , Patty D'Arbanvulle, Sharon Farrell, and Earl Boen as patients, John David Carson as the girls fiancé . And last Mel Ferrer as the hospital director who thinks the girl ( Diane Hull) tried to commit suicide. And she is trapped in the asylum trying to claim she was poisoned, no one believes her of course not even the fiancé . I enjoyed Robert Englund in a role so opposite of his horror roles . This movie was panned as a dog of the week on siskel and ebert. But I enjoyed this 7 solid stars .
Review of The Fifth Floor
