"Escaping the Madhouse: The Nellie Bly Story" (2024)

"Escaping the Madhouse: The Nellie Bly Story"

-January 21, 2019

"Escaping the Madhouse: The Nellie Bly Story" (1)

In 1887 New York, one woman that went by the pen name Nellie Bly changed the world of journalism becoming the first investigative journalist and writing a ninety-six page piece that would shock the world with the horrors she witnessed inside the walls of a madhouse. This year, Christina Ricci portrays Nellie Bly and her ten day nightmare.

Finding herself with no memory other than the name Nellie Brown (Christina Ricci), this young woman makes headlines in all the papers as to who is the insane girl that showed up on the streets and was brought to the women's insane asylum on Blackwell's Island just outside the city. Under the care of Matron Grady (Judith Light) and Dr. Josiah (Josh Bowman) Nellie undergoes the worst treatment imaginable from bathing in cold filthy water to the harsh labor and abusive treatment from Matron Grady and her staff of nurses in deplorable conditions. Nellie comes to find many of the women there are as sane as the next person and are wrongfully there from a woman of good family named Lottie Hollister (Anja Savcic) to a woman who had no other means in the world (Angela Narth) yet everyone, even Dr. Josiah starts to make Nellie question her sanity as she watches those around her deteriorate from Grady's torturous "treatments".

Shockingly horrific, enough to make you question your sanity. While Lifetime has succeeded at capturing a mind-gripping thriller once again and capture the fear that one might have experienced in a very place like the real Nellie Bly experienced, its fails to account for its historical accuracy in which I found out were more deplorable conditions and abusive than portrayed and focused more on fictionalized characters made to make the film more suspenseful and to have "Nellie" interact with someone. The only purpose for such a thing seems to be how the sane were driven mad which is the only real accuracy about them. While I found this film excellent as far as its story telling, I would have been more impressed with more accuracy from this brave journalist's accounts being used, yet it still gets to escape with three G.M.Stars and my approval for one of Christina's best roles of horror since "Cursed".

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Green Mountain Stars

"Escaping the Madhouse: The Nellie Bly Story" is currently only available on Lifetime.

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"Escaping the Madhouse: The Nellie Bly Story" (2024)

FAQs

What did they do to Nellie in Escaping the Madhouse? ›

Nellie's only savior is handsome psychiatrist Dr. Josiah (Josh Bowman), who only wants to help her find her true identity — OR DOES HE? At times, Escaping the Mad House is gloriously goofy in execution, filled with histrionic scenes of kerosene baths, genital torture, intentional drowning and self-immolation.

How true is escaping the madhouse? ›

The only part of this movie that is even remotely similar to what really happened to Nelly Bly is the fact that she was a journalist and she faked her way into an insane asylum to write a story. Almost all of the characters were fake, and so was every detail about her experience there.

What did Nellie Bly pass away from? ›

Death. On January 27, 1922, Bly died of pneumonia at St. Mark's Hospital, New York City, aged 57. She was interred at Woodlawn Cemetery in The Bronx, New York City.

Did Nellie Bly really lose her memory? ›

Per the film, poor Nellie loses her memory after the horrific 'medical' treatments and more complications ensue. Luckily, the real Nellie made it out intact, after help from her newspaper. She wrote the news article exposing the negligent asylum and a book – Ten Days in a Mad-House.

What was Nellie Bly trying to solve? ›

Nellie Bly was the most famous American woman reporter of the 19th century. Her investigation of conditions at an insane asylum sparked outrage, legal action, and improvements of the treatment of the mentally ill.

Who did Nellie Bly expose? ›

Nellie Bly became a star journalist by going undercover as a patient at a New York City mental health asylum in 1887 and exposing its terrible conditions in the New York World.

Why was Madhouse banned? ›

Julia's pet cat is strangled to death, a deaf child is killed by the Rottweiler, and even the dog itself meets a gruesome fate in a scene which has been excised from some versions of the film – and quite possibly is one of the main reasons why Madhouse was targeted for censorship.

How did Nellie Bly get out of the asylum? ›

Bly's “escape” was effected by her contacts in the outside world. The newspaper sent an attorney who claimed friends would “take charge” of her, and she was released. Her story broke big, thanks to Joseph Pulitzer, the media tycoon who owned the World. The tale of “The Pretty Crazy Girl” turned Bly into a sensation.

How did Nellie get out of the asylum? ›

The New York World sent an attorney to get her released, and she published her report in the book 10 Days in a Madhouse in 1887. The story was a national success, prompting a grand jury investigation of the asylum as well as the implementation of reforms concerning patient care.

Who did Nellie Bly marry? ›

Did Nellie Bly ever have kids? ›

Nellie Bly, also known as Elizabeth Cochran Seaman, did not have any biological children of her own. She married a much older man who had adult children. Her husband's children were not happy with the marriage and suspected Bly of marrying him for his money.

What was Nellie Bly's famous quote? ›

It is only after one is in trouble that one realizes how little sympathy and kindness there are in the world.

Who rescued Nellie Bly? ›

Exhausted and starving, Bly was relieved when, 10 days after her entry into the asylum, lawyers from the New York World arranged for her release. Though sorry to leave the suffering women, Bly was eager to write about what she had seen.

What did Nellie Bly witness? ›

Bly stayed in the asylum for ten days and witnessed atrocities such as nurses depriving patients of intellectual stimulation by forbidding them from reading or writing, forcing patients to take ice cold baths in unsanitary water, and the consumption of opium every night.

How old was Nellie Bly when she went to the Madhouse? ›

In 1887, 23-year-old reporter Nellie Bly had herself committed to a New York City asylum to expose the horrific conditions for 19th-century mental patients.

What is the story of 10 Days in a Madhouse Nellie Bly? ›

Synopsis. 10 Days in a Madhouse is a psychological opera that plays with notions of madness. Inspired by the life of Nellie Bly, a trailblazing reporter who in 1887 faked madness in order to be admitted to Blackwell's Asylum for the Insane and to report in conditions from the inside.

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