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The film is excellent but extremely obscure. It's from the 80s or possibly the 70s. It's American and I think it was a regional release. I can't for the life of me remember what it was called, or find out anything about it online. I saw it on YouTube years ago.

Plot. (In chronological order). A man molests his daughter. Feeling guilty, he founds a mental hospital in a mansion in a small town to help people. The man's daughter is treated there as well. Unbeknownst to him, the doctors are neglecting and abusing the patients. One night the patients get together and massacre the doctors. The man's daughter is murdered too, because of her connection with him. He is grief-stricken and disappears. It is believed that he dies in a fire.

Many years later, the former mental patients still live in the same town and now run the small town council. A young woman (some relation of the asylum founder) inherits the mansion. She notices everyone treating her strangely. The town council is very interested in buying the house from her. (They want to tear it down because it gives them bad memories and makes them afraid.)

One by one, the former mental patients are murdered by a mysterious figure. Before killing each one, the murderer terrifies them by reminding them of the mental hospital and what they did, all those years before.

In the end the woman is alone in the mansion after a brutal string of killings. A dark figure rushes at her from the stairs, shrieking something. The camera zooms in on his face and we see he's a very old man. She immediately shoots him dead. It turns out it's the asylum founder, who was alive and well this whole time, killing to avenge his daughter. And he had mistaken the woman for his daughter, calling her by his daughter's name.