Horror Hospital (1973)
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Jason is a rocker who needs a bit of time off. After having problems with the rest of his band he goes off to a sanitarium for rest & relaxation. But he soon realizes that once people check in, they don’t check out. Dr. Storm is running the place and he insists on using his customers for brain experiments. He wants to achieve the ability to brainwash people and nothing better than collecting prostitutes to help do his bidding. But if u try to escape the killer decapitating car is out to get you. Beware!
Overall: Not too much redeeming in this film but it will keep your attention. I think the production company had a few scenes, few ideas and a few people in mind, then built the film around them. Dwarves, automobiles that both decapitate people and have baskets catching said “craniums” as they come off the bodies, and biker gangs. Meanwhile some silly story of a mad doctor and his patients got written around the rest. Not exactly a film you will take seriously and the acting isn’t very good either. But I think it’s worth 1 viewing...rented or borrowed, not purchased. Don’t miss Michael Gough (Alfred in Batman movies) as the Doctor. The most unique comment of the this film comes from a reader at IMDB: If Richard O'Brien, writer of the "Rocky Horror Picture Show", wasn't inspired to write his movie after seeing "Horror Hospital" I'd be very surprised. So many similar subjects: sexually active couple in old castle/mansion, leather clad bikers, gore, evil doctor, brain manipulated minions. Even the couple's arrival is almost a carbon copy of Brad and Janet's greeting by Riff Raff who is in this case a freaky dwarf (pc - little person). This movie was released in 73' which would have been just a year before he began the songs for his soon to be musical "Rock(y) Horror Show." This is a must see for any RHPS fans. Comparison: Confessions of a Window Cleaner meets One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest |
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