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Ellen Cole [Adrienne Carlyle] has spent two years with "the agency" in order to fill inas a relief nurse for one night at St Mariah's Hospital for the CriminallyInsane. In reality, Ellen is an investigative reporter who has heardrumors about patient abuse at the asylum. She also has a personal reasonfor wanting to go undercover...her brother Peter [Nicholas Levene] has been incarceratedthere for the past two years after being convicted of murdering theirparents. Ellen believes that he is innocent, and it is her plan to savehim while also exposing the patient abuse.

Ellen's arrival at the asylum starts out fairly normal. Because thefunction room is being decorated for a Christmas party, she is sent aroundto the back entrance where she is greeted by a security guard. She breezesthrough the security examination, providing him with her fingerprints,palm print, hair sample, urine sample, retinal scan, and buccal cells forthe DNA record. She is then introduced to the asylum director, Dr CharlesLeonard [Robert Cargill], and is escorted by his secretary Lizzy [Lauren Bigby] to the nurse's station onB wing.

Leonard stays behind to speak with the psychiatrist, Dr Eska Librus [Lucy Casson].Librus wants more time with her patients and is concerned because Leonardhas decided to take Peter Cole tonight. After she threatens not to f**khim for two weeks, Leonard gives Librus another night to work with Peterand decides to use the next inmate on the list. Meanwhile, Ellen goeslooking for Peter. Peter doesn't seem to recognize her but warns her aboutcell #8 just before Librus and an orderly come along and take Peter withthem. Ellen does manage to get some photos of another orderly beating upStiles [David Horton], one of the inmates said to be a serial killer who suffers fromblackouts and can't remember his deeds.

While Peter is examined by the seductive Dr Librus, Ellen goes insearch of cell #8 and sees Leonard using his passcard to open the door.Ellen quickly grabs the door before it closes completely and slipsthrough. Cell #8 is actually a dimly-lit staircase that leads to anotherblock of cells in the basement of the asylum. The block is lit only bycandles and is guarded by the weirdly-grinning Nurse Caldwell [Michelle Esclapez], so Ellenmakes up a story about an incident upstairs. Caldwell goes to help, andEllen takes the opportunity to snoop until she is forced to hide at thesound of someone approaching. It is Leonard with head orderly Sturges James Macleod] andinmate Cedric. They put Cedric in a cell with another inmate. As Ellenwatches from around the corner, Cedric is attacked by a vampire.Immediately after the vampire has fed, Sturges zaps him with a cattleprodand leads him down the hall. Ellen follows them to a laboratory where shewatches in horror as Leonard dissects the vampire alive and cuts out hisheart. He hands the heart to Sturges and warns him to have it testedimmediately.

Ellen doesn't know it, but Leonard is trying to isolate the DNAresponsible for a vampire's immortality. It lies dormant in vampires, hebelieves, but becomes easier to isolate when enhanced by the endorphinsreleased just after feeding. Leonard has imprisoned several vampires andhas been providing them with inmates to feed on, after which he dissectsout the heart and sends it off for analysis. Unfortunately, the analyticwindow is very short, and he has not been successful at getting itanalyzed in time. He hopes that this time they will be successful.

Meanwhile, Nurse Caldwell has been pimped by ghettofab inmate, HamishMacDuff [Lamin Kamara], to have sex with Peter. Afterwards, she goes into the ladies'room to freshen up but is suddenly wracked with pain, her eyes begin toglow red, and her canines elongate as she turns into a head vampire,having been bitten by one earlier that evening when she attempted tochange a light bulb in the basement cellblock. After feeding on an inmateand a janitor, she heads back to the basement.

Leonard has found out about Ellen snooping in the basement. He ordersher locked in the nurse's station while waiting for the police to arrive.Ellen is happy to know the police have been called and plans to tell themeverything she saw in order to expose Leonard's practice of using theasylum inmates to feed his real prisoners...the vampires...so that he candissect out their hearts. Leonard laughs and threatens to expose Ellen asa case of demential paranoia but, when his test analysis comes backnegative, Leonard realizes that he'll have to try again, and Peter is nexton the list. In order to buy time for Peter, Ellen presses the controlbutton that automatically opens the doors to all of the inmates' cells,except for head vampire Stelinger [Fred Sandy], who is kept captive in a cell withunopenable bars.

Meanwhile, the party has gotten off to a rip-roaring start, thanks toall the planning by Leonard's wife, Ruby [Veronica Hempsey]. After a row with both Lizzy andRuby, Leonard returns to his office where he gets trapped by HamishMacDuff, who is POed because Leonard denied his release earlier thatevening. Hamish asks Leonard to take a closer look at his release paperand papercuts Leonard's eyeballs with it. Two police officers -- SergeantRayleigh [David Farrington] and his rookie partner P C Williams [Elliot Hill] -- have arrived and been sentaround to the back entrance. After providing the security guard with aurine sample. Rayleigh and Williams go looking for Dr Leonard but areapproached by several inmates loose in the halls. They hide in a linencloset where they encounter Pooman, an inmate who eats his own poop.Pooman wipes some of it off on PC's collar. As disgusting as it is, itsaves Williams' life when he is later attacked by a group of vampires whocan't take the smell.

With no one watching over either inmates or vampires, the vampiresascend from the basement to Ward B and begin to feed on the inmates,turning them into vampires, too. The security guard gets beaten to deathby inmates while he's trying to protect his urine samples. Sturges isbeheaded by a bunch of inmates who use his head to play kickball. DrLibrus, working late in her office, has been forced to hide in her closetwhen two inmates break into her room and begin to ransack it. After that,she is bitten by a vampire.

Meanwhile, Ellen and Stiles, the serial killer, have joined forcesand are trying to find the way out. They go down into the basement through#8, but find the next door is locked. While Stiles tries to find somethingto break it down, Ellen is hypnotically drawn into the cellblock wherehead vampire Stelinger is still trapped by the unopenable bars. His desirefor Ellen allows him to slip through the bars. Just as he's about to biteEllen's neck, Stiles knocks him in the head with a crowbar, which theythen use to break down the door. Unfortunately, or perhaps fortunately,the door leads only to a closet, but the closet contains wooden crucifixesand bottles of holy water. Even after what she has seen, Ellen denies thatthere are such things as vampires, even as Stelinger sneaks up on her andtries again to bite her neck. Stiles beheads him with the crowbar.

The crosses and holy water come into immediate use as they noticefour vampires bearing down on them. A cross, a crowbar, and several spraysof holy water later, they subdue the vampires and find their way back tothe #8 door. They race up the stairs and run into Williams in the hallway.Together, the three of them make their way along the blood-splatteredcorridors, Stiles happily chopping up a few vampires along the way andEllen finding her brother. Unfortunately. Peter has been turned into avampire. As he advances on Ellen's neck, he confesses that he was the onethat pushed their parents off the cliff. Just as he's about to kill Ellen,too, she beheads him with a knife tossed to her by Stiles.

Eventually, Ellen, Stiles, Williams, and the remaining vampires and inmates make their way into the function room where the band is playing,the tables are covered with food, the guests are dancing, and Ruby isdrinking. Vampires and inmates alike begin attacking the guests, bloodflows freely, screams ensue, Ruby has sex with a lobotomized inmate, Ellenstakes Nurse Caldwell with a wooden cross but not before Caldwell bitesEllen, turning her into a vampire. In another room, one of theinmates, wearing a urine containment bucket over his head, lights a matchin a room where there is a gas leak. Suddenly, the entire facilityexplodes into flames.

Survivors: Williams and Nurse Caldwell. Well, maybe just Nurse Caldwell.[Original synopsis by bj_kuehl]