Watch Hospital Massacre For Free

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

It's hard to take Hospital Massacre seriously. It just is. Yet, there's something so bizarre about it that it almost feels like one of those strange Italian horror films from the 70's or 80's where it seems like aliens from another planet have made the film and are trying to recreate the human experience as best they can.The story involves Barbi Benton who goes in to pick up some routine test results, but someone from her past switches her results so that she'll have to stay for more test and they can get close to her...and kill off half the hospital.Much like Halloween II, this hospital feels dimly lit - with hallways filled with dust and smoke - and a bit underpopulated (not as much as in Halloween II, though). All the doctors and nurses are shifty individuals who seem up to no good and look at Benton's switched test results with a mix of wonder and revulsion. Makes you wonder what the killer switched them with.The kill scenes are nasty and plentiful, which will thrill the gorehounds among us, and there are enough surreal set pieces to tickle fans of absurd cinema. Just wait until the killer corners a nurse by running down a long hallway from behind a bed sheet or the scene where a terrified Benton runs into a room only to find the three patients in full body casts suspended from the air and shrieking. It's very strange.Hospital Massacre is perfect for rainy day or late night movie watching, especially with friends.

Divorcée Susan Jeremy goes to a local Los Angeles county hospital for a routine exam.After being told to go to several different clinical offices, finds herself stranded there while a maniac, dressed in a doctor's surgical mask and clothing, goes around killing all the staff associated with her. Could it possibly be the psycho Harold, who killed a friend of Susan's on Valentine's Day 19 years earlier.........Cannon horror movies. One could say that all movies distributed by this glorious company were 'horrors', but for me, they were the epitome of the eighties, and released some brilliantly bonkers movies throughout that decade.And here, it's bonkers business as usual, just not brilliantly bonkers.Firstly, you have to throw comprehension out of the window, followed closely by happenstance, and actuality.Then you have to believe that out of all of the hospitals that Susan goes to, the boy from the flashback sequence works there, and happens to be a doctor, and is working that particular day.It's a slasher movie, with the old 'when we were young, I dismissed a valentine card from the local weirdo, and he killed my friend' trope, and go from there.The acting is decidedly dodgy, there is a sub-plot involving her ex looking after her child that never gets elaborated, and everyone in the first ten minutes has such shifty eyes, you'd think that Davidson went to an opticians for the casting call.It's a poor movie for sure, but it's still fun in that dodgy Cannon way.The victims find themselves in the strangest of situations, and the killer even uses a bed sheet to chase someone down a corridor.Funny, but for all the wrong reasons.An essential bad movie.

Hospital Massacre starts in Los Angeles in 1961 where a young boy named Harold (Billy Jane) leaves a Valentine's Day card for the girl he fancies Susan (Elizabeth Hoy), however she does not return the sentiment & laughs at Harolds card before ripping it up & throwing it on the floor. Harold is devastated & kills Susan's friend Dave (Michael Romano) in revenge. Jump forward '19 Years Later' & Susan (Barbi Benton) is due to collect the results of some routine medical tests from a local hospital, however her doctor Dr. Jacobs (Gay Austin) seems to have disappeared & Susan is growing impatient & ask's resident intern Harry (Charles Lucia) to help. Taking a look at Susan's results Harry refers her to Dr. Saxon (John Warner Williams) as the tests provide cause for concern, Susan is admitted but soon finds out that a killer in a surgical mask is killing off anyone associated with her & eventually comes for her...Also known under the titles X-Ray & Be My Valentine, or Else... this fairly routine, unremarkable & obscure early 80's slasher was directed by Boaz Davidson who has since gone on to be a prolific producer with over 130 films credited on his IMDb profile & produced by the infamous Cannon Films who were never slow in making cheap rip-offs of the latest trend & here with Hospital Massacre they were trying to cash-in on the popularity of the teen slasher. The script is a bland collection of slasher film clichés, the isolated setting, the female lead who has to get tough in order to survive, the crazed killer, the half hearted twist reveal, a tragic or horrible event from the past sparking off a series of murders, various bit part character's killed off in various ways before a long & drawn out final chase between the female lead & the killer through lots of dark corridors. Hospital massacre had promise I suppose but nothing really ties the individual aspects of the script together, why has the killer gone to such elaborate lengths to fool Susan & the doctor's into thinking she is ill? What happened to Harry from the prologue? Wasn't he put away in prison or a mental hospital or something? Why does Dr. Saxon acts so strangely? He never tells Susan anything & walks around with those two nurses either side of him like bodyguards! No-one in the place seems to know what they are doing & seem very vague & evasive about answering questions & no-one seems bother by the sudden & unexplained disappearance of several staff members. Why kill anyone else other than Susan? If all the killer wanted was Susan's heart why involve anyone else at all? Again why this over complicated plan to make everyone think she was ill? At just under 80 odd minutes (the IMDb says that a longer 90 odd minutes version was released but I don't believe this as nothing looked missing except a few badly edited death scenes & nothing amounting to ten minutes) at least it's fairly short but the character's are thin, hard to care about & the dialogue is wooden. There are enough murders & there's even a bit of nudity but Hospital Massacre feels tame & is pretty forgettable even by 80's teen slasher standards.Several other 80's slasher films used a hospital setting, most notably Halloween II (1981) & Visiting Hours (1982) both of which are better than Hospital Massacre. Even the Valentine's Day aspect had been done before & with better effect in My Bloody Valentine (1981). Despite the title the gore is quite restrained, there's some blood splatter, a guy has his face burned with acid, people are stabbed with various surgical instruments, a guy has an axe in the head, someone gets a spike through his throat, there's an off screen decapitation & bizarrely a kid is impaled on a hat stand! None of the kills stand out or are particularly memorable. The setting doesn't look much like a hospital most of the time with dark corridors & lots of wooden doors, there doesn't seem to be any wards or many doctor's about.Probably shot on a fairly low budget Hospital Massacre was filmed in Los Angeles & is quite well made for what it is, it's certainly no worse looking than any other slasher from the period even if it's not as good as many of them. The acting isn't great, everyone except Benton tries to act suspiciously to keep us guessing but they just come across as silly looking. Former Play-mate & country singer Benton gets to strip for her examination but otherwise makes for a forgettable lead.Hospital Massacre is a pretty average 80's slasher with a lack of gore & a plot that tries to be suspenseful & mysterious but just ends up being a bit of a random mess with various killings thrown in. I have seen worse but then again I have seen a lot better too.

This movie is nothing great or original as it has the same setting as the previous years horror film "Halloween II". Granted this one does not feature a super killer and has a bit more mystery to it than that movie, still it does seem to copy that movie especially considering how close they were as far as release dates and such. It is also far fetched when you find out the killer and the reason behind the massacre. Still, as far as slasher movies of the 80's this one is watchable if not good. It has been a long time since I last saw this one, but I remember there being a somewhat good amount of people killed in this one, but in the end none of the deaths must have been all that memorable as I can not recall a single one. The main thing I remember is the killer and why he killed and the cover of the video tape as it featured a person in a doctor outfit covered in blood and standing over a patient holding a knife. Probably a case where the cover was actually better than the movie as a whole. There were a lot worse movies though made during this time, this one is watchable, but also it is most certainly forgettable.