I gave it
1 star
Average of 124,351 ratings:
2.6 starsSublime
After checking into the hospital for a routine procedure, 40-something family man George Grieves (Thomas Cavanagh of TV's "Ed") soon discovers that checking out won't be so routine in director Tony Krantz's eerie medical mind-bender. There's something horrifyingly amiss within the walls of the East Ward, and as increasingly surreal happenings swirl around him, Grieves struggles to keep his grip on sanity.
Cast:Tom Cavanagh, Paget Brewster, Jeffrey Anderson-Gunter, Cas Anvar, Jordi Caballero, Shanna Collins, Kathleen York, Kyle Gallner, George Newbern, Bruce Nozick, Michelle PageDirector:Tony KrantzGenres:Thrillers, Psychological ThrillersThis movie is:Violent, Mind-bending, ScaryAvailability:DVD and Blu-rayThis movie, again, was a movie that started out promising, but dragged on and only satiated the 'SAW" and "SCREAM" fans (which I am).
I thought it would have a predictable ending. It did not. But that does not mean it was good.
Especially when he is in a delapidated part of the hospital with the nurse who wheeled him in there. He made a huge fuss, and we had that Twilight Zone da da daaaa kind of music when he found some out of place files.
Yet he says nothing when he sees a child sitting on the floor watching a doctor do sadistic surgery on the female we think may be his mother as well as other masochistic scenes. He says nothing. Awe CMON!!!!
I kind of knew things were not going well with the research team of this flic when the doctor's nurse gave the main character an IV injection of propofol. The patient did not even slur his words and since Michael Jackson's death, we know that propofol will paralyze you. Some people disagree.
But I am certain it is not used outside the operating arena.
Back to the film. There is a substantial amount of blood and gore for those fans who are in it only for the dimemburment scenes.
I watched this all the way through so you don't have to.
I give it 3 stars... and that is only for the ass-puckering pinking shear scenes
Trivia: The pacemaker
This is in celebration to our brave Scylla!!!
The pacemaker was invented by an engineer with the help of his Doctor.
While in the infancy stage a woman who was maried to a gentleman whose heart was misstepping and was going to die, found out about this invention and made haste to find these folks. (ah love)
The doctor and engineer declined. They said they could not use it on a human since it was not passed by the powers that be.
She cried, begged paid and finally signed papers that said they would not be responsible or ANYthing!
They gave in, they also had to replace it twice.
The gentleman who received it is still alive today.
As for the doctor and engineer? They died years ago.
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