Gave it a watch. I agree, definately focuses too much on the negative aspects of asylums. Interesting how psychiatry has changed so little since the decision to shut the asylums and move care into the community. As a psych patient and somebody who has been through the psychiatric system since I was 11 years old, VERY little has changed in my opinion. I think that the asylums served a very valid purpose in that you had somewhere contained to be monitored, treated and cared for. Now you're very much expected to just get on with it 'out there'. You're only admitted when you're sick enough, or dangerous enough to warrant it, and promptly chucked out again asap. A lot of mental illness now goes undiognosed, missed, or misdiognosed as a result of limited observation - where a week's 'rest' in the asylum would have given that oppertunity. I think that even nowadays there is place for asylums, or a wider range of in-patient psych care in the same style of large dedicated building.
Such a shame that these glorious buildings have gone to waste on 'luxury apartments' or simply demolished - or left to decay. Although I can't even imagine the level of uproar if a mental asylum were to be redeveloped and reopened! Personally I've never been inside an abandoned asylum, but it's somewhere I'd love to explore, especially in a way that if I'd been born 50 years earlier, I'd probably have called it home.