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#325: X-Ray aka Hospital Massacre (1981) - Tubi or Not to Be · What's Your (Least) Favorite Scary Movie?

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Hello, what's your least favorite scary movie?
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Yo, Doctor Jacobs is dead. Welcome to What's your least
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Scary movies. Because we believe every horror
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Even if we don't always get it. My name is Travis, my name is
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Jesse, and welcome back to our monthly bonus series.
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We Are Alive, uncut and mostly undrawn.
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That's right, we are doing To Be or Not To Be the series where we
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look at free streaming services and find some maybe hidden gems
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we've never seen. So this month it was Travis's
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pick. That's right, and apparently I
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did not know it from the title, but it became quickly evident.
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Apparently Travis decided to right the wrong that we had no
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Valentine's movies. Yeah.
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So yeah, I this was the opportunity to just put one in
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the schedule for this month. So I took it.
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And we're talking about X-ray, also known as hospital massacre
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today, so. I prefer X-ray.
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I don't know why you. Do see you like, I feel like the
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hospital massacre kind of keeps the running tradition that we
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have on tubies where we cover a bunch of like the blank massacre
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movies. That is true.
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So I think this is keeping the spirit of that going.
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And also, we're getting a Valentine's Day movie, so we're
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going to get into that. And this is a tubie movie.
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And I guess you could argue that Harry ended up, you know, being
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a doctor intern. He's a successful man.
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Oh, he is a. Successful, man.
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Wow. Yeah.
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That's like, oh God, that that's a movie that we have to do
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eventually. Yeah, we've never covered it.
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It was an escape room movie and that was that was the movie
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description on TV. It said a successful man and his
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friends. I I actually think that might
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have been the very first movie we ever watched on TV.
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It might be. I think so, but that's not what
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we're talking about. We're not.
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We're talking about X-ray, also known as hospital massacre.
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So we're going to get into it. OK.
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I guess we don't do announcements or anything since.
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This isn't bonus. Oh, Dang.
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OK, I'm going to go right into it then.
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OK, All right, so X-ray released October 16th, 1981.
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We watched it on Tubi, and if you want to watch it, you have
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to stream it. You cannot rent this movie.
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This is a this is a rare instance where no rental
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options, but streaming options are plenty.
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OK, you can stream it on Prime to be Fubo, TVMGM Plus or Philo
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OK. Written by Mar BIM who did the
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screenplay and Boaz Davidson who did the story who and also
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directed at the movie. Music by Arlen Aubur and special
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effects make up by Joe Quinlevan, starring Barbie
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Benton as Susan, Jeremy Charles Lucia as Harry, John Von Ness as
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Jack, John Warner Williams as Doctor Saxon, and Don Greenough
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as the Doctor. All right, time for your
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favorite game on the show, budget or budgeted?
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I think it's bug Ted. OK.
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But I think it's, I think it's a decent bug, Ted.
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There's. Quite a few things in this.
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They did. I don't have any numbers, like
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no numbers at all for this thing.
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So, but yeah, I mean, like it, it looks decent.
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I I would say bug Ted, but I would say like they had enough
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of a bug Ted to make a decent product here.
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Yeah. So, yeah, I do have an IMDb
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score, though. It's a perfect five out of 10.
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Wow. Right down the middle.
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Interesting. Yeah.
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Well, that actually kind of like rings through to what I've seen
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online. I've seen a lot of split reviews
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on this movie right here. Interesting.
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Yeah. So I have a theme for 1981
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movies and the theme is you upset me in the past and now you
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must die. My name is Amy Gorman Toya.
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Yeah. I think I kind of got that a
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little bit from that thing. So right out the gate, here's
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another parallel Valentine's Day movie, My Buddy Valentine.
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OK, that released February 11th, 1980.
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One 2.3 million budget. Now we do know that the 3D
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version also has a hospital massacre.
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It does, yeah. Does the original.
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I don't remember God, like see, that's a movie.
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I don't think I ever finished it.
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I I rented it from old school Netflix back in the day.
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Well. Like when they would send DVDs.
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Out. Yeah, I got the DVD of it.
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I went back to my bedroom and I put it on and I don't remember
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finishing it. And it wasn't that I hated it.
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I just. I don't remember what happened.
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I got sidetracked. Yeah, something like that.
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But that was almost one of my other themes here was like
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hospital horror movies because there were a few of them there,
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but I couldn't quite find 3 that I knew for sure were hospital
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movies. No, yeah, it's OK.
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I like the one. I still ended up getting here.
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But My Bloody Valentine had a 2.3 million budget, 5.7 million
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gross, 6.3 IMDb score. OK movie #2 The Burning.
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That was another hospital, one that.
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I had a. Brief hospital scene, but still
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there's a scary moment where he grabs the dude's the nurse's
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wrist and the guy goes. I also feel like the theme of
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these movies could be I did something super traumatic as a
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child and remarkably turned out surprisingly well adjusted.
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Yeah, you know actually well that would kind of ruin the next
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one that I have close. We got we got a lot of running
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themes here in 1981. There's a lot of blending
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together films here. So The Burning release May 8th
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81 Budget of 1.5 million, gross of 707,000 IMDb 6.2 and the
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final movie The Prowler. Oh yeah.
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Yeah, 'cause that happened, like she turned down his engagement
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or like, broke up with him. Oh yeah.
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It was a dear John letter where he was overseas at war.
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Yeah. So the Prowler came out June
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26th, 81 budget of less than 1,000,000.
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They didn't have a number. It was just like, it was less
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than a million. Yeah, well, we know it was a
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budget of 1,000,000, a gross of less than a million.
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IMDb score 5.9. OK, yeah.
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And The Burning and the Prowler, those are movies that we have
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covered in the past and we have the 3D version of my buddy
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Valentine cover as well. So, you know, if you want to
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listen to our thoughts on those 3 movies, do it.
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Well, kind of those 3 movies. Yeah.
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Yeah, it's there. All right, so I have tag lines.
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We have quite a few here. There were two that were on the
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poster. The first one you have nothing
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to fear until they operate. That hit so true because I've
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got surgery coming up later this month and I've been fine about
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it being scheduled and then we went in for my pre up
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appointment this week and all of a sudden it was like my heart
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was racing and I was sweaty and shaking.
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Didn't help that they also like like, oh, and by the way, we're
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taking your bullet too. Yeah, they.
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Didn't warn me. I didn't even no they planned to
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take my blood and they didn't tell me that they were going to
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take my blood and that's just mean.
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Yeah, you know, actually this movie kind of hit at the right
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time right here because like, yeah, you're, you're connecting
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a lot of pieces. Oh, I was going to talk about
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that. OK, good.
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OK, so the second tagline is the movie will scare the life out of
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you. That's.
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Pretty clever. Yeah, it's not too bad.
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It's not too bad. Yeah.
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So the others, there's no recovery at dot dot dot hospital
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massacre. That's not bad for like a
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tagline like at the end of a trailer.
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Strong, It fizzled out at. The end.
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OK, the checkup. That became a nightmare.
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That's just the plot. That is the plot, yeah.
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It's no secret that some hospitals are not safe.
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OK, but what's the tagline? Hey, I know it's just speaking
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truth here. I just speak at the truth.
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OK, so I don't have any fun facts because this is a 2 year
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not to be in. We don't do that shit here.
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But I can't explain why I picked this one and I think we actually
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already covered it. I just I wanted a Valentine's
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Day movie for the show so I did my researching and you know,
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there's really not a lot of Valentine's Day horror movies
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out there. Surprisingly.
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It's like a holiday I feel is right for a lot of people to go
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crazy with, but it's just not really like.
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There are so many revenge stories out there, and it's so
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easy to have a Valentine's revenge story.
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And there were, I also was like, OK, if I can't find anything on
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Valentine's Day, I'll always try and find a romance horror.
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And I almost had one. But ultimately I was like, let's
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go through Valentine's Day. Even though this is like, this
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is a movie that takes place on Valentine's Day, but it's just
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like a setting, you know, it's not like, it's kind of like,
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yes, this is a, a Valentine's Day movie, kind of like Die Hard
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is a Christmas movie. Like it all takes place at the
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holiday. But, you know, like I, I
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consider them both to be the holiday movies that they are
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reported to be. I just feel like the Die Hard
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Christmas movie, like it adds in a lot of extra people 'cause
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they're there for the Christmas party.
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That is true. That is true.
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I mean, yeah, they could have made it something else, but it's
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also why John Mcclane like made the trip across the country.
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I I just think that Christmas is essential to.
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The plot, I guess true with this movie also is like it started
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with a rejected Valentine. Yeah.
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So I, you know, I guess it does kind of play into the
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Valentine's Day thing. So yeah, that's why I got this
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one here. And this one has actually been
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on my radar for a while and I have had like an interest in it.
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So I'm glad that we finally watched it.
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So that's it for that. Let's get into our discussion of
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it. The good, bad, unclean, absurd.
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What did you like about it? Oh I loved this.
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I'm glad that you liked it. I didn't know.
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I was like, I was worried that you're going to be like, oh,
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here's Travis with another one of his sleazy 80s movies, you
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know? I I thought this was such a good
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movie. It had so many good red herrings
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that like, we were legitimately sitting there, like talking
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about possibilities with each other.
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It doesn't help that we've been on a trader's binge.
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Like so we were always doing like, who's the murderer?
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Who's a traitor? Well, whenever I spoke up to
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you, because, like, I had just made that connection in my head,
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I was like, the guy's name is Harry.
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The kid's name was Harold. That's got to be him, right?
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Yes. But they also like they did such
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a good job saying some of the other doctors like had first
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initials 8. See, I didn't notice those
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things. That was a good observation on
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your part. There was a patient file that
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the last name was Harold. Yeah.
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Like, there were a lot of really good red herrings, and there
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were a lot of really good, like, lingering shots that were just
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scary. And there were just like some
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really fun things they did with the other background characters.
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Like there's the scene where Susan's running around, she's
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just gotten the head in the box and she runs into a room and
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there's three men in traction and they're all kind of like
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banging their legs and arms together.
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And it makes me think of like, you know, like movies where you
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see like skeleton or something down in a dungeon or like.
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Oh my God, yeah. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
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when they're singing and the guy down in the Yeah cellar is like.
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I was thinking of like marionettes.
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Yeah, and also the the three old ladies that she's sharing the
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room with, I said. They reminded me of the Fates
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from Hercules and they actually like.
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Saved the day. Yeah, that.
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I did not expect that at all. I was like what the fuck?
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Yeah, I thought that this was just like a fun running gag they
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had, and they were actually integral to the plot.
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Yeah, one of the things I was reading about this is the guy
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that made this movie is more known for comedies.
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So yeah, this was like his foray into a different genre here,
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which I think is like the old ways kind of play a big part of
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like the comedic things because yeah, yeah.
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They they kind of have like, mostly comedic, A comedic
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presence until, I mean, even the end, like when they save the
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day, it's kind of like a comedic thing.
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And I'm like, are you Doctor Jacobs?
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Yeah. Like, I don't know, it's weird.
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Yeah. So I just overall I had, I had a
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real fun time with it. Cool, alright, I'm happy to hear
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that. I like this movie a lot too,
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like I was. I was put off a little bit
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because like whenever I was talking about mixed reviews
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before, a lot of people said it was really slow and I was
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worried about that. But man, like actually this
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movie kind of gets going like right out the gate.
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Like there's a lot like I we get the opening, like the little
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back story with the kid and like, you know, that's OK.
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But like the doctor immediately starts going to fucking town on
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people. And I got to say that doctor is
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actually creepy. I didn't think he was going to
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be creepy but like that scene and when?
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Honestly an effective disguise too because like they had the
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eyebrows covered. Everything covered except for
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the eyes. Well, OK, I'll talk about that
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in a second. OK.
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But like that scene, especially that like stuck like with me the
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most was that scene where she's in the hallway.
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She's hiding behind the curtain, and he stops there and he's just
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breathing so heavily, and he's just like, slowly walking.
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And he's just, like, the music in this movie, like, did a
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really good job of making it creepy.
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The heavy breathing that he does was very unsettling.
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The Doctor, like, the portrayal was just, like, unhinged and it
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was really unsettling. And that like, that's I think
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that deserves a lot of credit because, I mean, like, yeah,
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like an effective slasher villain, for sure.
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I also liked that we have two different types of horror in
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this movie. We had the horror of a killer on
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the loose in the hospital. We also have like the horror of
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Susan's character. Like, she is like, these doctors
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are like, they're they don't want to tell her there's
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something wrong with her and she's just being strung along
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this entire movie. And like, that is a terrifying
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thing of like, there's something wrong with me, terribly wrong
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with me. And I'm not getting any answers.
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Nobody's telling me anything. And like, that was like its own,
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like, that could have been its own horror movie on its own,
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that little plot. But like, I I liked having both
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of those there because it just, it kept the tension throughout
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the movie The entire time because you don't know what's
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happening there. You're guessing the entire time.
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And you're also trying to figure out who the doctor is.
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And it just did a really good job with all that stuff.
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And yeah, like the kills are good.
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Like there's a decent body count.
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I don't know, Like, I, I really enjoyed this movie.
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I thought it was really good. All right, bad stuff.
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So when did Harry decide to do this?
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Because she reveals that she is only doing this checkup because
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she got a promotion and her new insurance required a checkup.
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Yeah. So it doesn't seem like that's
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the type of thing he could have. Like, it's it doesn't seem like
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he went to medical school. No.
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Got placed in a residency also orchestrated for her to get a
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promotion with insurance that is covered at his hospital and plan
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for her to do a checkup and come back from the checkup on the
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19th. Which 19th?
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Whatever anniversary of when he murdered her middle school
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boyfriend that was. Her brother.
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Was it? Yeah, because she is.
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It doesn't seem like it was a brother situation.
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When I was reading something, I think it's stated brother, OK.
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Yeah, I did not get that. OK either way it like it was it
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just he went on and lived his own life and then snapped when
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he saw her name on their patient.
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List I think this. Is that even her name that she
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had when she was a child because she's married and divorced?
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Did she change back to her maiden?
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You know what I mean? Like I've got a lot of
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questions. Well, if I had a.
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Crime of opportunity. That's what I was going to say.
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Like, I, I feel like that's the case here.
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Like I think this guy happened to be working at the hospital.
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She came in for a check up. He stumbled across her record.
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Maybe he saw her that day when she came for the check up.
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And that's when he, like, you know, decided to like scheme a
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plan to like, OK, when she comes back for the results, that's
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when I'm going to get her. It just happened to be on
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Valentine's Day, which made it even more perfect.
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But coincidence happened all the time.
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It's so. Implausible.
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It's implausible, but this is a movie, you know, like this is a
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movie. We're we're just, this is an
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interesting sequence of events that's happening here.
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That's why we want to see it. And I agree, and I generally
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hold space for suspending my disbelief.
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So there's a lot. That's a lot of things that
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lined up perfectly. It is.
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Yeah, it is. It's a lot, man.
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I God, what was bad for me here they they had a misdirect with
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the doctor because like I like they had somebody else play the
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doctor. So like whenever they had Harry
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under, there was a completely different like person, but they
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did a decent enough job having him look consistent.
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But when you think about it, Harry and the killer, the doctor
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killer have completely different body frames, body types.
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The guy that was playing the killer was like really strong,
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like scrawny. Like he was like he was like a a
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lanky ish kind of guy. Like he wasn't tall, but he was
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just very slim all around. And Harry was like one of those
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guys that's like he's just a little bit more stout.
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Yeah. And it just didn't match at all.
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Like I like you mentioned that it was that like you thought it
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maybe was that one nurse that or the other doctor that was there
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that was kind of like helping out a.
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Lot Doctor Saxon because it looks like his facial features
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almost. No, that's what I thought for a
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minute. Oh, well, you also mentioned
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another guy too, because he had like, AH for his on his batch.
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That guy. Yeah.
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Like I thought maybe it could be that guy because I started
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looking at his facial features and they kind of look similar,
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but I don't know, like I guess like if you're going to do that,
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like have it be the guy. I I think it's kind of similar
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to like, you know, with the Ghostface and Scream where they
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just have the, the actors randomly doing those parts and
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then they also stuntmen. I'm OK with that because like I
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feel like Ghostface is its own thing.
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But in this instance here, like see, Ghostface is also 100%
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hidden. It's more plausible, like more
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plausible deniability for that type of thing.
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This guy right here, like he's got the mask on and he's got the
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the head thing on. I don't like know what you call
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that but like. Surgical Cap.
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Yeah. And that, like there's still
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some very easily identifiable features there.
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And it just didn't add up whenever I saw the reveal that
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it was here. Like I can kind of see it
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whenever he puts that stuff on. But really, like, that's not the
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guy. Yeah, it was.
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It was just a little bit different.
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I don't really have much else bad to say about this movie,
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though. OK, all right.
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Ugly. OK, so the lack of patient
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rights, there's a huge problem for me.
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That scene with the exam, I get it.
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They were trying to do 1980s sleeves.
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Like we've got to have the gratuitous nudity, but.
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She was also a Playboy Bunny. Yeah, but it, this is still such
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a vulnerable thing that a lot of people do experience,
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unfortunately, if they've got like untrustworthy physicians
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that they work with. And it's like it's horrible.
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Even if the exam is kosher, which this one absolutely was
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not, you know, and then she doesn't have the option of
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signing out AMA, which she absolutely wants to.
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They're not telling her what's going on with the tests.
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They're not telling her the purpose of the tests.
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It like just the whole thing and you know, like you were saying,
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this is kind of good timing for immersion for me because there's
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like the health anxiety, the medical anxiety that's very,
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very real. Like in terms of like, OK, got
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to go to the doctor and got to hope everything's OK, but what
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if it isn't? And then like things start going
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haywire. That's got to be.
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Like a nightmare situation and, and it clearly does become a
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nightmare situation. So I think especially that whole
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thing with the exam is icky on several different levels.
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Yeah, I mean, her overall treatment at the hospital was
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pretty terrible. Like, it's insane.
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Like they're holding her against her will.
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Like they're basically kidnapping her.
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Yeah. Like it's it's they should go to
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jail for one of the shit that they do in this movie then.
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Well OK, I agree with you on that.
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I also have the the drunk patient dripping ketchup on her
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shoe. She just doesn't react.
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I know she doesn't even move her foot.
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Why? She's just like huh, ketchup is
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on my foot now. Oh well.
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Like it's like the whole time I and that's so it's too much
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ketchup on a hamburger. I mean, also, that's like way
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too fucking liquid. Like that.
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That that was just he like when he got the ketchup on that
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burger. He it was the point of the
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bottle where I was like, yeah. And it was just like weird gross
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juices coming out instead. And that's what it was.
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And it dripped all over. It just disgusted me.
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That scene is gross. Also that guy in general is just
21:38
really ugly, like he was like constantly forcing himself on
21:42
women and like spying on them too and shit like that.
21:46
Like that guy was really a fucking pest.
21:49
Piece of shit. He looks like one too, like the
21:53
actor like you know, you might get typecast my guy, cuz you you
21:58
got that look of value it. Looks like a real life creep
22:01
too. All right, absurd.
22:05
There's a few, obviously the part of the beginning where the
22:09
the environmental services staff finds Doctor Jacobs dead and
22:15
finds the doctor and is like yo, Doctor Jacobs is dead.
22:19
That's the janitor, by the way. Yeah, Environmental Services.
22:22
OK, I thought you were talking about like the hazmat dudes.
22:25
No, no, no. Yeah, so.
22:28
That. Is just such a funny way to
22:31
announce you found a murderer. That's how I would say it,
22:33
'cause I, I say like, yo a while like that, yo, that person's
22:37
dead. Absolutely could could picture
22:39
you saying that, but it just and that was within the first like
22:43
10 minutes of the movie, so I was sold right away from.
22:46
That that was really funny. There's also 'cause there's at
22:48
one point where Susie, not to be confused with Susan, Susie the
22:51
medical transcriptionist, is writing up the notes about some
22:55
of the lab work. And it appears as though, and
22:58
maybe I'm misreading the scene, maybe they did no research on
23:02
hospital work. But she takes the the the
23:07
collection of test tubes that there are, finds the one labeled
23:10
for Susan Jeremy, and holds it up to the light as though she's
23:14
going to assess the results of this blood draw visually.
23:20
Yeah, maybe that was what it was like in 81, you know, medical
23:25
science back then. I mean, it explains a lot of
23:28
what's going on in this hospital.
23:30
How many red blood cells can I see in this?
23:32
Yeah, 1230. Shit, I got started.
23:34
Over I lost count. That'd be so fucking painful.
23:39
So yeah, the yeah. OK, those.
23:42
Are those are just two, two out of probably many that we'll talk
23:46
about as we go through? OK, so my upstairs right out the
23:49
gate, the first thing I noticed was they I had read that they
23:54
shot this at an actual abandoned hospital and it looked to me
23:58
like they made the signs on the doors.
24:01
They just like had tape they taped them like it was just like
24:04
a little strands of tape that they made that like spelled out
24:07
the stuff like fire exit and stuff like that.
24:10
So I thought that that looked really funny.
24:12
But most importantly, the amount of people that willingly wonder
24:17
the 9th floor while it's being fumigated without any protective
24:21
materials and they have no issues.
24:23
And they are doctors. They know that this is not good
24:26
for you, but they don't care. Well.
24:28
And they, the doctors that are being called up there especially
24:32
like they work in the building. Thing like it's got a there was
24:35
a memo sent surely like I. Don't know if you can just
24:37
fumigate a single floor like that.
24:39
I don't know, I think. That's how that.
24:40
Works. I don't know, Yeah, I don't
24:42
think, yeah, I don't think that's how that works.
24:44
But yeah, I was just like, how are people just chill with this?
24:50
And this is just kind of like, OK.
24:53
Can I add one more? Sure.
24:55
Absurd when Harry and Susan go in to break into Doctor Jacob's
25:00
file and somebody opens the door and they, Oh yeah, hide behind a
25:06
wire shelf. Yeah, yeah.
25:07
A wire shelf which notoriously all kinds of slats and gaps and
25:13
openings and. To be fair that the killer did
25:16
not. Actually, it wasn't the killer
25:18
because he was with Harry. That person did not come all the
25:21
way inside the door. Yeah, we don't.
25:24
Actually know who came in? I wrote killer peeks in because.
25:28
That's what, yeah. That's what I would assume.
25:29
But that was that was a good Mr. Wreck right there because, you
25:31
know, you think it's the killer, but yeah, it's just somebody
25:34
else interesting. Yeah.
25:37
That's a good, you know, again, I think that's a credit to the
25:39
writing right there. That was a pretty good moment
25:40
right there to Mr. Wreck. That it wasn't Harry.
25:43
Yeah. Yeah.
25:45
OK. Well, let's rate it then.
25:47
So I think I would give this a nine I I had a fantastic time
25:51
with this. I think the tension was good the
25:53
whole time and the Mr. X were successful.
25:56
Cool. I'm going to give it an 8 1/2.
25:58
I like this movie a lot. Yeah, like it.
26:00
It like what generally unsettled me, and it kept me entertained
26:03
the entire way. Like, I don't think this movie
26:05
is really slow at all. Like it.
26:06
It was pretty good. All right, cool.
26:08
Let's get into it. 8.75 starting average all.
26:11
Right. We start off at Susan's house
26:14
1961. We got Susan and David playing
26:17
with a model train and they're surrounded by a bunch of paper
26:21
hearts. We see a little boy peeking in
26:25
and he runs to the front door, leaves a card, rings doorbell,
26:29
runs away, and Susan and David go get it.
26:32
They bring it inside and realize she got a Valentine from Harold.
26:40
I crumble this up, throw it down.
26:42
It's. Just watching from outside and
26:44
then he's like Ralphie, That's the moment that his heart, he
26:47
can pinpoint it. He can see the exact moment his
26:50
heart. Coincidentally, another
26:53
Valentine's Day. Then if this was not ATV
26:57
episode, if this was like a normal weekly episode, I would
27:00
request a send up of. That.
27:03
For the cover art. Oh, God, yeah, I can make it.
27:06
I can. I'll just throw like a little
27:09
thing of Ralphie in there. Ralphie.
27:10
But put young Harold's face on. It OK, So yeah, like, that
27:16
upsets him. So Susan goes to the kitchen.
27:20
She gets a knife, and this looks sinister, but she's cutting her
27:24
birthday cake. It's a Valentine's Day cake, as
27:29
people famously get. I realize that I'm asking the
27:33
absolute wrong person this question, but is this the best
27:37
way to be having a cake? With a big knife, yeah.
27:43
Yeah, I knew you were the wrong person to be having this.
27:45
Conversation. No that I have used that knife
27:48
to cut cake before. That knife, a knife that size
27:51
and shape, is meant for murder only.
27:54
Then why is it always in the kitchen?
27:56
We don't have a knife like that, so I can't answer that.
27:59
Actually, we do. No we don't.
28:01
Yes we do. No, we don't.
28:03
It's close. We absolutely do not.
28:07
We got a close enough knife. We might have like a miniature
28:11
saw like that, in which case that is a tool, not a cooking
28:16
utensil. I still say she was.
28:19
She was in the right now if she did it, obviously it worked.
28:22
They cut the cake really well. Anyway, she.
28:27
She does it. She cuts the.
28:27
Cake. David's dead.
28:29
OK, Yeah. Well, let's just cut right to
28:31
David. He's dead.
28:32
He's hung up on the car rack. Easy.
28:33
To cut right to David with a knife that size.
28:36
Oh wow, here I am. All right, so she's dead.
28:40
On the on the coat wreck. And I think she sees Harry
28:44
Harold out there smiling like she spots Harold out there.
28:48
It doesn't matter because 19 years later she is over this
28:51
shit. Well, I mean, like, what are you
28:52
going to do? You know, like you got to live
28:54
your life. What's she going to do with that
28:56
dessert? She's got she's.
28:58
Got the dessert in her hands she's going to do.
29:00
Guy, I'm sorry man, I just cut this cake.
29:05
I'm sorry bro, I just got to wait.
29:08
So 19 years later, she finally finished the cake and Tom gives
29:14
Susan her kid she meets. He's like he meets her outside.
29:18
Transfer type of thing. He's doing a little bit
29:20
prematurely. He's supposed to be keeping her.
29:23
But Tom is like, hey, like, take the fucking kid.
29:26
I'm done with the kid. Yeah, she was like, he was like,
29:28
I got things to do. And she goes well.
29:30
So you, I, I will come get her at 5:00 as we planned.
29:33
And then Eva is like, I wish one of my parents wanted me.
29:39
God, story of this kid's movie. That's the horror movie going on
29:42
with this kid right there. She just feels like she's not
29:44
wanted. So Susan gets in the car with
29:47
her boyfriend Jack. Which we find out later is her
29:49
fiance. Oh yeah, they didn't really say
29:52
that here. Yeah, yeah.
29:53
So he is going to drop her off at the hospital and wait for her
29:57
out front. And this ends up being a much
29:59
longer wait. And he's like, I wish we had
30:02
watched this before. I had to do my blood draw
30:04
because you almost waited out in the hall and I, like, gave you a
30:10
terrified look and you're like, OK, OK, I'll come in.
30:12
But next time you try and threaten something like that,
30:14
I'm going to be like, oh, well, you know who else thought that
30:17
he would? He shouldn't come along for a
30:18
doctor's appointment. I don't want to hurt your
30:20
feelings, but I am already going to tell you I relate to Jack.
30:24
And it's because a lot of times when we go to the hospital,
30:29
like, yeah, this will only take 5-10 minutes and we're there an
30:31
hour. And that's exactly what is going
30:33
to happen to Jack here. I went off of what was in my
30:38
chart. I'm sorry that it lied.
30:40
See, that's the thing with hospitals.
30:41
Hospitals take forever to do shit.
30:44
So it's not your fault, it's just the reality.
30:47
And that's exactly what Jack is about to experience, too.
30:51
OK, so. She when they're in the car when
30:55
she's leaving, she's like, hey, by the way, like, isn't this the
30:57
hospital where like, you know, something went bad like last.
31:00
Year A patient ran a muck. Yeah, ran a muck, yeah.
31:03
Yeah, and honestly, I forgot about this until seeing this
31:06
line in my notes right now, because that right there.
31:09
Yeah, yeah. And then you see the doctor
31:11
watching from up above out in there, like he knew that she was
31:14
pulling in at that moment. So she finds out she needs to go
31:18
to the 8th floor to see Doctor Jacobs and she gets on the
31:21
elevator and we see a red dripping on her and it's a drunk
31:26
man eating the ketchupiest hamburger from McDonald's.
31:29
That's. Ever existed.
31:31
Fucking gross. It is disgusting and she doesn't
31:34
react. Instead she hits the wrong
31:37
floor. She gets up there.
31:40
The fumigators are just waiting for the elevator door to open.
31:43
It doesn't seem like they needed to get on the elevator.
31:45
I'm not gonna lie. I like, until I realized when
31:48
this movie, this movie came out the same year as My Bloody
31:50
Valentine, I thought it was a reference to My Bloody Valentine
31:52
because they're all wearing, like, the masks, like the minor
31:54
mask here. Yeah.
31:56
And they're like, oh, ma'am, we're fumigating on the 9th
31:58
floor. You have to go somewhere else.
31:59
Which they, I don't know why this is a thing that's come up
32:02
multiple times this week that just kind of annoys it.
32:04
But they're like hey lady, you never hear like lady in a non
32:11
weird context. Like it always comes across as
32:13
rude. I always try and say that Lady,
32:17
it's that Lady over there. It just.
32:20
What do you say? Because I know like if you say
32:22
like, you know, that girl, that's also not exactly.
32:24
Good, that woman. That woman, What's wrong with
32:26
lady? It's just the the context that
32:29
it's used, it always comes across like, hey lady, like.
32:32
If it's that aggressively like that Lady over there, no, no,
32:37
Maybe these guys are coming off a little bit too.
32:38
Aggressive. I don't know.
32:39
I don't know. It's hard to explain.
32:41
Maybe that fumigation just got them a little bit too
32:43
misogynistic. Maybe.
32:45
So she starts to go back down to the 8th floor and it the
32:49
elevator shut off, we see somebody shut off the elevator
32:52
and at the same time we see Doctor Jacobs being paged to the
32:56
9th floor. Yeah, and we also get a killer
32:58
POV shot where he, like, goes into this room and he's got a
33:00
picture of Susan hung up on the wall and he's just, like,
33:02
caressing it. Dude I love the like choral
33:07
music that happens there and it just like it comes up every time
33:12
like the killer has just. It's a good piece of music.
33:14
It's really unsettling. Near the end when she's running
33:17
from him, we get so so in there and it's amazing.
33:21
Yeah, it's really cool. So, yeah, so Doctor Jacobs is up
33:24
there. She's looking around trying to
33:25
figure out why she was paged up there.
33:27
Paged up there. So it was emergency.
33:29
I don't know, don't use your noggin lighty.
33:32
Yeah, I mean, like, it's just so it's it's a little dumb like
33:37
this right here is dumb that she just goes up there and she's
33:40
like, I guess I'll wonder this abandoned for for this patient
33:43
that needs me desperately. Like who the fuck is gonna put a
33:45
patient up here? Doctor Jacobs.
33:47
Well, you know what ends up happening?
33:49
She gets stabbed a lot. A lot, yeah.
33:53
And then the the doctor goes downstairs.
33:57
They kill her doctor and swaps out some X-rays from Susan's
34:02
chart. And Susan gets back down to the
34:05
8th floor, finds the office is empty, so she sits on a bench,
34:08
and because it's 1981, she lights up a cigarette.
34:11
Yeah, in the hospital. It's fucking crazy.
34:13
That like was so jarring for me to see.
34:15
Yeah, so then we we find upstairs, the janitor has found
34:22
Doctor Jacobs in a pen. Why is he up here cleaning
34:25
during the fumigate? I don't understand.
34:28
Any of yeah, it just like if OK, if I have to go to I'll I'll
34:32
throw this into the bad stuff. This is just bad.
34:35
Yeah, it's bad. Like from a writing standpoint,
34:37
like why are you making your characters like meander on a
34:39
fumigated 4? Like I guess I get trying to
34:42
have. Doing some reconstruction.
34:44
That's what I was going to say. Like, I get having like an
34:47
isolated thing, but like there have been several hospital
34:50
movies that we have covered where it's construction and that
34:52
is believable. It is so believable because
34:54
hospitals always be reconstructing stuff.
34:56
Because they always got money, Yeah, they're always like, we
34:59
got to keep adding on. Yeah.
35:00
Well and then like there's also like trying to keep up with ADA
35:02
compliance like equipments on that it's got to get.
35:07
Yeah, like there's all kinds of things.
35:08
So the killer, because he's the killer, kills the janitor by
35:14
dunking him into chemicals. Yeah, like he shoves his face
35:17
into acid. It's it's pretty fucked gnarly.
35:20
Yeah, so that's, you know, bad for him because he's just doing
35:24
his job. Yeah.
35:25
Susan is directed to the doctor's lounge to look for
35:29
Doctor Jacobs. And.
35:30
And there she runs into Harry, who is an intern.
35:33
So Doctor Jacobs should be in her office.
35:35
And he goes, wait, did you say your name?
35:37
Susan? Jeremy, I recognize that name
35:39
from our results list. Once again, I don't know when
35:45
HIPAA became a law. I should know that, but I don't
35:47
know when HIPA became a law. And I mean, if that's not his
35:51
patient, he shouldn't actually know that.
35:54
He's not even a doctor, he said. Like he said, he's an intern.
35:57
Yeah, Like he he should not know anything.
35:59
But he agrees that he'll get the results to her, but has to get
36:03
an MD to sign off on them. So they go to Doctor Saxon's
36:05
office, who doesn't agree to do this because he's like, I've got
36:09
enough patients, and this is believable Dr. behavior.
36:14
I don't want to help you. Yeah.
36:16
But then Harry whispers something in his ear.
36:19
He goes. He takes the pictures, the
36:23
X-rays, he's looking at him. He's he steps out of the office
36:31
and tells Susan to wait. And by this point I we don't
36:35
even know what time it is, but it's definitely been a while.
36:38
It's getting way. She's been here.
36:39
I think we, we know, like have a shot of.
36:41
It's outside and dark, and Jack has fallen asleep in the
36:44
driver's seat, waiting for her. I really wish he was just out
36:47
there until the end of the movie.
36:48
Like he wakes up when the body hits the ground at the end.
36:50
That would have been funny. Yeah.
36:53
So she's back out in the hallway.
36:55
Well, wait, no. She takes this opportunity to
36:57
use Doctor Saxon's phone because.
36:59
She's used the pay phone in the hall a few times to try and call
37:03
Tom, and he's not answering the phone.
37:05
So she uses the doctor's phone this time and Susan answers and
37:10
she goes, hey, let me speak to your dad.
37:12
And she goes, oh, well, he went out.
37:15
And Susan is rightfully pissed because Ava is 6.
37:19
She's young. Yeah.
37:21
She's like, well, just don't open the door for anybody.
37:24
Yeah, I think she meant that for even her dad.
37:27
Yeah, She's like, don't let anybody in, especially your dad.
37:31
Then some nurses come in and they bring Susan to a new exam
37:35
room. She's told that the tests are
37:37
inconclusive. And she's like, this is, this is
37:41
a check up. I got a new job, I got new
37:44
insurance. They just required a check up to
37:46
cover me. And he is like, well, you need
37:50
to get undressed for your exam. And so she does and she puts on
37:54
the gown and then she comes out and he immediately pulls the
37:57
gown off of her. And again, I get that they're
37:59
going for the gratuitous nudity in this movie, but this is not
38:01
the way exams work. Yeah, yeah, it's a, it's a
38:05
pretty long process. It's really upsetting if he did
38:09
need to pull the gown down like one of the nurses should have
38:12
stayed in there for her comfort. Like there are so many things
38:16
that should have happened. Also I don't even know what he's
38:19
trying to test because like at one point he's like bumping on
38:23
her stomach. Well her X-ray has some like
38:25
weird shit in that area. So like, I think that that was
38:28
like. What stomach X-rays are supposed
38:31
to look like. I I don't either.
38:33
I'm not a doctor. I can't tell you what should
38:35
have been done or what was done incorrectly or what was weird
38:39
here. Why?
38:40
Did they do an an X-ray of her? I can understand an X-ray of her
38:43
lungs. Maybe it's like a TB situation,
38:46
like they need to like her titers are inconclusive or
38:50
something. So they got to do an X-ray.
38:51
I don't know, like why did I have an X-ray of her stomach?
38:55
I don't know. I've had ongoing stomach issues
38:57
and I've had all kinds of imaging.
38:59
You know what? I haven't had tummy X-ray.
39:01
Well, it too, I feel like the perfect answer to any of these
39:05
questions is we'll get how this hospitals ran and that should
39:09
have answered just about any question you have about why are
39:12
they doing what they are. Doing here.
39:13
That patient ran a muck last year.
39:15
Yeah, probably was just sick of this bullshit doctor treatment.
39:20
OK, so then she gets taken to another room.
39:23
While she waits for her results, she is given a new gown.
39:28
A child size gown. It appears it's fine.
39:33
And then we we cut to Susie. Susie's transcribing notes.
39:36
She's checking the blood that Doctor Saxon drew.
39:39
And one of her colleagues comes in and says, hey, wanna go get a
39:42
coffee. And she's like, Nope, I'm gonna
39:44
stay here with my pair and work on these notes.
39:47
And you think, oh, wow, Susie will never be found dead.
39:51
But instead what happens is Susie gets step step stab the
39:55
killer from an angle types in a lot fewer notes than there were
40:00
on the initial sheet. And then her coworker comes back
40:04
in, got her a coffee anyway. She knows Susie.
40:07
She's like, Susie says she doesn't want a coffee, but I'm
40:10
going to go ahead and get her a coffee.
40:11
Like they've been working together for a while.
40:13
They're buddies. She knows that she's going to
40:15
get real grumpy at about 7:00 if she doesn't have her coffee.
40:21
And it said, did she find? Oh yeah, the Co worker.
40:26
Finds her, Yeah. She goes in there and the body
40:28
falls out from where the guy, like, stored her in the closet
40:31
there. And she runs out screaming down
40:33
the hallway. And then the doctor chases her
40:35
and starts, like, killing her right there in the hallway.
40:38
And he just, like, grabs her, puts her in a wheelchair and
40:40
just, like, wheels her into a room.
40:42
Like, he doesn't like, wheel her in there.
40:44
Like he just, like, throws her, Yeah.
40:47
Harry, Doctor Saxon and Doctor Bean look at the notes and
40:51
they're confused by the results because they're like, there's no
40:53
symptoms. She can't have these test
40:55
results with no. Symptoms.
40:55
It's not. They're not.
40:57
No symptoms, no symptoms. They're non existent.
41:00
Like these are symptoms that don't even exist.
41:02
Like this is just a jibberish shit.
41:03
No, they're saying the test results, like the blood results
41:06
are catastrophic and she doesn't have any symptoms of what these
41:09
blood results. Oh, I thought that they're I
41:11
thought they were saying like this shit doesn't make any
41:13
sense. Like these are not they're.
41:14
Saying it doesn't make any sense because they probably probably
41:16
are showing like super like low counts of something or super
41:20
high counts of something. OK.
41:22
And I just like she's. Saying I'm fine and they're like
41:25
you cannot be fine with this catastrophic level of.
41:28
Results My my mind was like they made-up symptoms like levitating
41:31
like this is non existent. This is not like a thing that
41:34
actually happens to people like this is their.
41:36
Interpretation of that, that's so much more fun.
41:38
That's just what I thought was happening there.
41:40
You know, that's the type of like maliciousness that I expect
41:42
from this killer. Let's see, Susan is going to be
41:46
kept under observation. For days.
41:49
For days. Maybe, yeah.
41:51
And she is with these 3 old biddies in her room that are
41:55
mean. They are openly gossiping about
41:58
her like what is wrong with her? I don't know her blood.
42:00
Is redden poison? She looks young and lovely on
42:04
the outside, but on the inside she decays.
42:07
I like this. She's just like, I like this.
42:09
She's just like, would you guys stop talking about me?
42:12
Like, let it be known that you do not appreciate that.
42:17
And like, that's such a shame because it could have been like
42:20
a situation where these old ladies might be sweet grandma.
42:23
Nie no, I I have noticed like the older that a lot of the
42:28
people get, the more they like to spread misery.
42:31
That is like a thing. Like that's just a thing I've
42:35
noticed with older people. There's, there's some, there's
42:37
some happy old people out there, but like especially these sets
42:40
right here, this is a very common type of person.
42:43
Let's see, roomies are mean. She leaves the room like she was
42:48
like, I can't be in this room. And she runs into Harry and he's
42:51
like chat, chat with her. She's like, I don't understand
42:53
why I'm here. He goes, well, when was your
42:55
last appointment? Doctor Jacobs?
42:56
She goes two years ago. Everything was fine except I had
42:59
like, low blood, low blood pressure.
43:01
And he's like, well, we're not supposed to do this.
43:04
Let's go look at your files. So they break into Doctor
43:07
Jacob's office, and here's somebody else falling in behind
43:10
them. So they take hiding lessons from
43:12
Spaghett and hide behind a wire bookcase.
43:16
Just as effective as Spaghett, yeah.
43:19
And he pulls out her file and he's like, yeah, there's no
43:24
reason for you to be here. Somebody is pulling a con on
43:26
you. And he's like, I'm going to go
43:29
talk to Doctor Saxon. We'll get this sorted out.
43:31
You'll be out of here in no time.
43:33
So Harry goes to Doctor Saxon's office and is empty, but he does
43:36
get a phone call and he says yeah.
43:38
Why? Why does he answer his phone?
43:43
Why do people answer any of the phones in this movie?
43:45
It's going to get weirder. This this answering the phone
43:47
question is going to get weirder here in about 5 minutes.
43:50
I guess so, yeah. So he's like, all right, I'll be
43:53
right there. We don't know what was said.
43:55
We don't hear the other end of this conversation.
43:57
Then we see Jack downstairs. He decides he's going to go
43:59
inside because he realizes he's been asleep for a while.
44:02
And there is. Two hours.
44:03
Susan, Yeah. So he he gets over to Susans
44:06
room, he finds her and they are. He's like, we're just going to
44:11
leave. Oh, that's.
44:12
What I said, Yeah, yeah. I mean, yeah, like, why not?
44:15
She's like, I mean, like, do you feel OK?
44:17
And she's like, I feel fine. Like I I don't want to be here
44:19
anymore. Let's just get out.
44:20
She's even like, I don't even know where my clothes are.
44:21
Let's just go. Let's just go and Doctor Saxon
44:25
is coming off the elevators. They're headed to the elevator
44:27
and he has the nurses holder against her will and tells Jack
44:31
to wait by my. Office.
44:32
I come back and fill you in. I understand her frustration and
44:36
she's like Jack fucking do something, Don't stand there and
44:38
just like let them do this because he.
44:41
He was on Jack is not good under.
44:43
Pressure. He's not a confrontational guy,
44:45
I don't think. Yeah.
44:46
So they like they're going and he's like, finally, like, what
44:49
the fuck are you guys doing? And he's like, look, it's very
44:52
serious with her. Just wait outside my office.
44:55
I'll be over there. I'll meet with you shortly.
44:56
OK. So he's like waiting out by the
44:59
bench and they are strapping Susan down.
45:02
No, they're not strapping her down yet.
45:04
No, no, we have more things to happen. 1st we have to watch
45:09
Jack sitting on this bench and the PA system says will the
45:14
gentleman in the hallway please pick up the phone?
45:19
So OK, actually let me answer something here.
45:22
There was a moment that we didn't discuss before when she
45:25
was first put into her room where there was an intercom
45:29
saying, everybody please go into your rooms right now.
45:32
You must be inside your room, so nobody in the hallways.
45:36
So they had this one man out in the hall.
45:38
So I that makes sense why they would do that.
45:41
So they've got, he's like looking side to side, sees
45:46
nobody, picks up the phone and says, yeah, the the intercom
45:51
told me to pick up the phone. I'm the only one in the hall and
45:54
he's called to the 9th floor. So he gets on the elevator, or
46:00
he goes through the stairs and runs into the drunk hamburger
46:02
man, who, like, you know, acts drunk and sloppy.
46:07
And then as soon as Jack gets past them, he seems to sober up.
46:10
So he might be putting on an act.
46:12
We don't know. So he gets upstairs and he goes
46:19
into a room and we see. First off, he sees the old women
46:24
up there roaming the halls, which I thought was very
46:27
strange. They're up.
46:28
They're still just looking for Doctor Jacobs.
46:30
Like, why? Why did they leave to go look
46:32
for her? Like, I don't know, it was just
46:35
so out of the blue here. He gets into a room and he sees
46:38
a shadow behind a like dressing partition and hears a whispering
46:45
of like, basically jealousy. Like we know that the killer is
46:49
doing this because they want Susan.
46:51
And he goes around behind the partition and it's Susie
46:55
murdered in the wheelchair. And he turns around and the
46:58
doctor's there with a bone saw. Yeah, he gets in there.
47:02
Yep. So the killer drops off a
47:04
package in Susan's room and she turns around and it's this big
47:09
beautiful red box with a bow on it, and she unties it and slowly
47:13
lifts it up. It's Jack's head.
47:16
So she runs screaming because, duh, she finds men in traction,
47:22
like I said before, and they're just like.
47:25
And then she runs up into the doctor's lounge.
47:27
She's kind of barricading herself and she's screaming.
47:30
And Doctor Saxon and Nurse Kitty find her and they're trying to
47:34
calm her down and she's just screaming.
47:36
She can't do anything. And she's like, listen, his box,
47:39
this box has his head in it. He was killed.
47:42
My fiance is dead and we need to get out of here.
47:44
Somebody's murdering people. But this box is retied and we
47:48
know she didn't retire before she left, so we know it's not
47:52
going to be Jack's head and in fact it is a Valentine's Day
47:55
cake, which you question the validity of.
47:58
But apparently this is a tradition for Susan.
48:01
Apparently, yeah. I You know, if you let us know
48:05
if you do Valentine's Day cake. Valentine's cake.
48:08
It makes sense. Yeah.
48:09
Why wouldn't you have cake anyway?
48:12
They they, this is where they strap her down to a Gurney
48:17
because they say she's having hallucinations.
48:19
She's like, finally we have a symptom.
48:21
Wow. Don't do anything else or we may
48:23
have to operate. What are they?
48:26
Doing that was such a that was such like when he said that in a
48:30
moment I was like, what the fuck?
48:31
Like what do you like? Why like, what are you going to
48:33
do? Like I, I don't even know, like
48:36
they don't even know what's happening.
48:38
Like how are you going to operate if you don't know what
48:40
the fuck is going on? Nope, I lied.
48:43
This is actually where she's not.
48:44
She's still not being strapped down yet.
48:46
We're still jumping ahead. We're still jumping ahead.
48:48
This is where she's given the pill, and she cheeks it.
48:50
Yeah. Yeah.
48:51
And so she sneaks out and she decides she's going to go
48:53
upstairs to the archives because Doctor Saxon said he will go
48:56
check the files upstairs because if the copies are no longer in
48:58
Doctor Jacob's office, there will be, there's a copy upstairs
49:01
in the archives. So Susan goes and she is going
49:04
to check on him, checking on these files, and while she's
49:08
waiting for the elevator, this is where she hears the doctor,
49:11
Doc Vader. This is such a fucking good
49:15
scene and this is so tense. Except it is great, it is tense.
49:19
The music is great for the moment, but all I could think of
49:22
like is if we didn't hear this music, we would hear her.
49:24
Like slip her on the floor desperately trying to get her.
49:27
Zippo back to her. It is a little bit implausible
49:30
because she drops a lighter while she's hiding back there
49:32
and it rolls out like just barely out from beneath the
49:37
curtain and she feels the need to have to reach out with her
49:41
foot to slide it back under. Which I don't understand because
49:46
I feel like that's way more noticeable than just a random
49:49
lighter being on the ground. Like why would this guy like
49:52
stop and pause at the sight of a lighter?
49:54
But like, your foot just kind of like, you know, clumsily, like
49:59
just trying to get a lighter slid back to you is not a
50:02
distraction. And he already heard it falling.
50:06
So all you're doing is creating more sound and drawing more
50:09
attention to yourself. It was a little bit stupid, but
50:12
the overall just like shot of him just standing there and it's
50:16
like that slow pan of her, just like looking up at him and you
50:19
just see his face and he's just breathing heavily and the music
50:22
queue and everything like that. It just is so well done.
50:26
So the elevator arrives and he stops looking and just goes back
50:30
upstairs and she takes the actual staircase and when she
50:33
does she runs. Such a drunk hamburger man.
50:36
Forces himself on. Her yeah, he is gross.
50:38
He is creepy. He is not somebody that we want
50:41
to spend any more time with. And if we find out he's the
50:44
killer, we're not going to be mad.
50:47
So she makes it to the record room and she notices Dr. Saxon
50:50
is in there looking through the records and she's peeking.
50:53
She almost gets caught by him, he doesn't notice, and then as
50:57
she continues to watch, the doctor comes in and kills Doctor
51:00
Saxon. This is where she runs back
51:01
downstairs, and when she's downstairs she's screaming.
51:04
Doctor Bean and Nurse Kitty strap her down for real this
51:08
time. I'm reading it right here in my
51:10
notes. And then Dr. Bean, he's going to
51:13
plan to operate on her. So the nurse goes and gets
51:16
scrubbed up, and Doctor bean's working on getting scrubbed up.
51:19
So the nurse is in the hall. This is a good moment too.
51:22
This is crazy. I did not expect this.
51:24
Yeah. So she looks down the hall and
51:26
she sees the Doctor walking with, like, a big sheet in front
51:29
of him. Like a ghost.
51:30
Yeah. Except like, not even over his
51:32
head like a ghost, Just like he's holding it up as a big
51:35
square. Yeah.
51:36
And when she's like, she's confused because.
51:39
Yeah. How do you react to that?
51:41
And then he gets close enough, drops it over her head like it's
51:44
a net or something, and injects her with something lethal,
51:48
presumably because now she's got this thing over her head and
51:52
she's like, not walking in a straight line.
51:54
And she eventually like falls and just dies under her blanket.
51:57
My initial thought if I were to see that in the hallway would
52:00
not be I'm about to die. I would think it's a prank, like
52:03
somebody just like fucking around with me.
52:05
You. Know yeah, I'd be like haha this
52:07
is silly yeah yeah, no. And she just dies.
52:10
That's really cool. I like that at the moment.
52:12
Too. And then Dr. Beam, he's, you
52:14
know, falling proper dawning protocols.
52:16
He's washing his hands. He's getting ready to put all
52:19
the surgical gear on, and he gets killed as well.
52:24
And then Susan is in a room. The doctor comes and takes her,
52:29
wheels her to the OR and guess who it is?
52:33
It is Harry. And she says Harry and he goes
52:36
no, not Harry, Harold. But again, if this is a crime of
52:42
opportunity, how did he already get people so used to calling
52:47
him Harry that it wasn't weird? Because like, that's how all the
52:53
doctors refer to him as Harry. I'm gonna say I didn't live the
52:58
same life with the people I met after I left school.
53:02
But he seems so offended of Harry versus Harold.
53:06
It's kind of like if somebody ran into me and they called me
53:09
Jessica, I'd be like, yeah, we're not friends.
53:11
Cuz that's just that's. Weird, yeah.
53:15
Yeah, So this is, you know, he's having his big, like, grand
53:19
villain speech. And then the three fates walk in
53:22
and they're like, are you a doctor, Jacob?
53:24
He's, he's wanting to take her heart.
53:25
He's, he's about to like, cut out her heart because like, I
53:28
want what I wanted when I was a kid.
53:30
Your heart. And so she takes the
53:33
distraction, stabs him and runs. He follows her and they are
53:39
upstairs in like a storage area type of place.
53:42
And there's all kinds of like equipment and files and boxes.
53:48
And at one point she is climbing the ladder and he's following
53:50
her and she's got this like, glass bottle of Flambo liquid
53:55
and she pours it on him and she runs out.
53:58
He's distracted because it also burns.
54:00
She runs out to the roof. And she kind of has the, the
54:03
thing like blocked with a rope, like has the handle with the
54:07
rope over it. So he can't get out.
54:08
Except he just pulls the knife out of his own stomach, cuts the
54:12
rope, follows her onto the roof. She's got a giant pipe.
54:16
She uses that to beat him a lot. And then Chekhov's Zippo lighter
54:23
and vial of flammable liquid. What is necessary after all?
54:27
She lights him on fire and he's still chasing her as he's on
54:31
fire and she lets him just wily coyote right off the edge of the
54:36
roof. I appreciated that they let an
54:38
actual dummy burn and fall off the roof of a building here.
54:41
It was pretty cool. I wish I could have been on set
54:44
for that safety meeting. And then it just ends with her
54:48
running outside and she sees her ex-husband and her daughter and
54:52
they all hug and then the credits roll.
54:53
She found her clothes. Yeah, she did find her close.
54:56
Well, she had enough time after all that.
54:59
I think, I think it's just a fun movie.
55:01
I really like it. I'm going to keep it at A9.
55:03
OK, yeah, I like this movie a lot too.
55:05
Like it. It works really well for me as a
55:07
slasher and I'll do 8 1/2 still, I like it a lot.
55:10
What would you change? If I had to change anything,
55:15
it's tough because there's not a lot of things that I would
55:18
really do differently. I guess like the whole thing, it
55:27
was just stupid with the whole thing with like the fumigated
55:31
9th floor as a reason, like come up with a better excuse to get
55:34
these people separated. Other than that, you know,
55:36
Because like, I know that we're kind of like in a cheesy horror
55:39
movie and I really don't care ultimately.
55:41
But if I'm having like, we'll get this under a lens and like
55:44
critique something that was a really dumb riding move.
55:47
OK, that's fair. Yeah.
55:49
All right. What's the dream sequel?
55:54
Dream sequel to this? Well, it's.
56:02
Been a while since I've done that.
56:05
Do we think Harry survived that fall?
56:13
He survived the fall and now we have kind of a burning
56:16
situation. Oh, there we go.
56:18
I like that. Yeah, it takes place at a
56:21
hospital. Again, I wish we knew what kind
56:23
of place that she worked at before that way, like, we know
56:26
if, like, that has any potential, like, maybe her
56:29
business has to, like, have some kind of business relationship
56:33
with the hospital that he gets at and just be there for, like,
56:37
a work meeting or something. And he comes out of his coma
56:41
that day because this guy is all about coincidences and chance,
56:46
you know? So, yeah.
56:47
Yeah. And then it's Valentine's Day
56:49
again and yeah, you know, he just, like, goes on another
56:53
killing rampage in the hospital this time isn't burnt up, dude.
56:57
This time she is swapping all of his medical records to try and
57:01
keep him like in an isolation room.
57:03
Oh, that's smart. I like that.
57:06
OK, cool, that was easy. Who did you relate to?
57:09
No, I already said Jack one 100%.
57:13
I get it. I mean, I guess I have to relate
57:19
to Susan. Because of the whole medical
57:21
stuff you're dealing with, I've. Been spending a lot of time at
57:23
hospitals lately. I mean, it's an unfortunate
57:28
thing. Yeah, yeah.
57:29
You got the hospital thing going on for you right now.
57:32
Yep, Yep, OK. But even more importantly than
57:36
all of that, that was Scout's favorite part of this movie.
57:42
Was it when he caught on fire? See, I understand what you would
57:48
think, that yeah, this fire is warm.
57:50
Yeah, and Scout always wants to be warm.
57:52
But obviously her favorite part is when Susan was strapped down,
57:57
because that means Scout could lay on her and get comfortable.
58:00
With. Susan.
58:01
Moving, yeah, like you can, you can't get up now.
58:04
Like that's the thing with Scout is any time that she gets on my
58:07
lap, it always happens to be at the moment where I have to stand
58:10
up and do something. Like it's like the oven just
58:13
gave us the one minute alert and she's like, all right, I'm
58:16
gonna. Here's my chance.
58:18
Yeah. And The thing is, she like, she
58:22
is like very intentional for when she wants to be on lap.
58:25
And when we just deny her that. Yeah, it's just it upsets her
58:30
that much more. OK, I got it.
58:33
That makes sense. OK.
58:34
And then I guess that just leaves us this articular
58:38
question. To be or not to be?
58:42
Yeah, obviously, Yeah. I mean, we like this movie, so
58:45
we 100% recommend you watch it, especially if you want something
58:48
for Valentine's Day and you just want to have like, an excuse to
58:51
throw on a swasher with the holiday theme.
58:53
This is a great opportunity for them.
58:56
It's not even long either. It's like an hour and a half.
58:58
You know, like, not bad. It's good.
59:01
I disagree with the thing saying that it's slow paced.
59:04
I think it does a really good job of building tension.
59:07
But I never at any point felt like OK, this isn't necessary.
59:10
Yeah. OK.
59:11
So let's get into some of that. Then let's go into some of the
59:14
reviews because I have pulled 2A positive and a negative.
59:18
So let me see here. Let's start off with I got so
59:26
many reviews right here. Holy shit.
59:29
Is this a good one or a bad one? Did you not pull any beforehand?
59:31
No, I got them all right here and also have them for Wolf
59:34
Creek too, though, and like the. Yeah, OK, OK, well, let's start
59:38
with a bad one here. 3 out 10 ridiculous medical horror movie.
59:44
Oh boy, where do I begin? Hospital massacre also known as
59:47
X-ray. Be my Valentine or else.
59:50
And ward 13 is trash. Wow, I didn't know I had that
59:53
many. Names.
59:54
So many names. Fun trash, but trash
59:56
nonetheless. The lovely Barbie Benton plays
59:58
Susan Jeremy, a divorced mother of a young daughter who goes to
1:00:01
the hospital to pick up some test results in it.
1:00:03
And that is where the movie's wheels fall off.
1:00:05
It seemed that a creepy kid who left her a Valentine's Day card
1:00:08
played by Charles Lucia as Harold Rusk as.
1:00:11
And Billie Jane as young Harold Rusk is full blown crazy and is
1:00:15
now killing off the various hospital staff in order to
1:00:17
falsify her records and to stalk her through the hospital.
1:00:21
Now it's a good premise if done right, but this is done so very
1:00:24
wrong. For a start, there is no way
1:00:26
hospital staff would behave like this, not unless they wanted to
1:00:30
be hit with lawsuits up the wazoo.
1:00:32
John Warner Williams is Doctor, Rand Saxton is suitably creepy,
1:00:35
and the nurses are downright abusive.
1:00:38
One reviewer mentioned it was Kafkaesque and it is but two
1:00:41
over the top it becomes unbelievable, which makes it
1:00:44
silly. The sad thing is this could have
1:00:47
been a great movie. All of the ingredients were
1:00:49
there, but the director Bose Davidson, who also wrote it,
1:00:53
really flopped if he had toned down the more over the top
1:00:58
parts. Have the doctors tell her
1:01:00
directly that there were some serious results and which she
1:01:03
and would she consider remaining for the tests instead of
1:01:06
creepily whispering and casting ominously glances as they were
1:01:12
as if they were serial killers. Oh, and that examination scene?
1:01:16
What doctor would examine a patient with them being given a
1:01:19
hospital gown? That was when I mentally checked
1:01:21
out. Wait, when was this review
1:01:24
written? 2023.
1:01:25
OK. So they're definitely coming at
1:01:26
it from a lens of the modern lenses would be like, yeah,
1:01:31
suitable. Today, now I know that I am
1:01:33
probably being a spoil sport by being so nitpicky, but I could
1:01:36
see the potential if it had been done by a better director.
1:01:39
There are many other hospital horror movies that are much
1:01:41
better. This was obviously done just as
1:01:43
a quick cash grab to get in on the slasher movies.
1:01:47
OK, Oh I did give an extra star for the creepy old ladies and
1:01:51
the bandaged patients and traction writhing around like
1:01:54
somebody out of purgatory. Now, if this had been all fever
1:01:56
dream, it might have actually worked.
1:01:58
OK. OK, I mean, those were those
1:02:03
were some things that we had talked about, you know, like the
1:02:06
hospital staff being like downright evil.
1:02:08
But I thought that that kind of played into the movie.
1:02:11
I didn't mind the fact that they were whispering and not sharing
1:02:15
the medical information with Susie or Susan the entire time
1:02:17
'cause I thought that that was like an extra layer of horror in
1:02:20
itself. I mean, it worked like that for
1:02:22
me. So I don't know if that was the
1:02:24
intention, but, you know, it ended up working for me and I
1:02:26
don't really have any complaints myself for that.
1:02:28
OK, what about you? I mean, like I said, like some
1:02:33
of those things, yes, this is absolutely how things wouldn't
1:02:36
work. But also like there are, there
1:02:38
have been a lot, a lot of like rules and regulations that have
1:02:43
happened since 1981. That's true, Yeah.
1:02:45
There's a lot of different stuff.
1:02:47
I mean, that's like, that's, Oh my God, like over 40 years ago.
1:02:51
Yeah. I mean, I can think of the
1:02:54
difference in the doctors I've been going to for like the past
1:02:57
eight or so years, Like there is a huge difference in how they
1:03:00
have to do things because of new regulations that exist.
1:03:04
So like, yes, it, it is a little bit distracting when you look at
1:03:08
it from that modern lens. And there are definitely some
1:03:10
things that wouldn't have flown back then either.
1:03:12
But I I don't agree with some of the other things like this is
1:03:17
it's a silly movie. It's a movie like suspicion of,
1:03:21
you know, disbelief for whatever.
1:03:22
Yeah. OK, let's let's do the positive
1:03:24
review. OK.
1:03:26
This is 7 out 10 from 2013. Among the small sub sub sub
1:03:31
genre of horror movies that are the hospital slashers also
1:03:35
including Halloween too and visiting hours is the kooky
1:03:37
story of murder. 1 realizes this early on just how absurd the
1:03:41
whole thing is. Story author and director Bose
1:03:44
Davidson adds enough offbeat and humorous touches to his
1:03:47
presentation to make this something other than the typical
1:03:50
slasher. Slasher fanatics may be
1:03:52
disappointed that the body count isn't larger, but some of the
1:03:54
murders are effectively gory and sadistic, and lead actress
1:03:57
Barbie Benton, the Playboy icon and companion to Hugh Hefner for
1:04:00
several years, shows off the goods in a pervy examination
1:04:03
scene. Just to give you an idea of how
1:04:06
Davidson approaches such material, there's the inclusion
1:04:08
of the three strange or elderly female patients who drives Susan
1:04:13
up the wall. He creates some suspense and
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some atmosphere, but he never takes himself too seriously.
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The acting isn't inspired, but it is serviceable.
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Ben is a fine screamer and puts up a good fight.
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Charles Lucia Society I didn't realize he's in Society is
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amiable. Amiable as helpful intern Harry
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John Van Ness, the Hitcher plays Susans boyfriend Jack
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adequately, and John Warner Williams is effective at making
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his Doctor Saxon character the kind of character whom you just
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want to punch in the face. The opening back story features
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Elizabeth Hoy as young Susan and Billy Jane.
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OK, whatever. Pacing is decent, the labs are
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frequent, and topping it all off is a priceless, ridiculous music
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score by Arlen Ober that utilizes a lot of vocalizations.
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All in all, this is pretty fun for those who like their horror
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with a healthy sense of humor. 7 out of 10.
1:05:02
I agree with most of that. Yeah, I didn't necessarily find
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a lot of humor in all of this stuff here.
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There were some humor scenes like the thing with Jack out in
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the car, like falling asleep and stuff like that.
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And I guess like the old ladies, like kind of roam in the hall
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was a little bit communicate times.
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But like I I took this mostly it's just like a straight
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straight up horror movie that was, in my opinion, pretty well
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done. OK.
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All right. That's it for the review some.
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X-ray. Yeah, that's it.
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all right? Is that good?
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