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Robert Joyner The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

Sarita Rafferty There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

Caroline Phillips 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.

Michael_Elliott Hospital Massacre (1982) ** 1/2 (out of 4) Incredibly strange, over-the-top and at times downright crazy slasher about a young woman who sees her best friend murdered after they laugh at a boy who left her a Valentine's Day card. Flash-forward nineteen years and the now woman (Barbi Benton) is at the hospital for a check up when a madman begins killing everyone trying to get to her. HOSPITAL MASSACRE, also known as X-RAY and several other titles, is a pretty poor movie that has so many unintentionally laughable moments that you really can't help but have fun with it. Director Boaz Davidson has said that he didn't know too much about the genre and had never made a slasher so he was pretty much just throwing everything in that he could. This includes all sorts of silly "jump" sequences, which are just downright silly at times and even worse is how everything gets drawn out to the point where you just get tired of watching it. There are simply way too many sequences where scenes keep on going and going when they should have been much shorter. A bit more editing probably would have made the film much more entertaining. There are some things here that are good and this includes the gore. The film contains a pretty large amount of blood especially for a film of this era when most were being cut up by the MPAA. Another memorable thing is the "performance" as the killer because it's just so crazy and over-the-top that you can't help but laugh at times. Still, the weirdness of the character certainly makes you remember him. Benton is decent in the role and manages to show off her Playmate breasts during a rather awkward examination sequence. The rest of the performances are certainly below par but they add to some of the laughs. HOSPITAL MASSACRE is mainly going to appeal to those who enjoy those bad slashers of the decade. You have to leave it to Cannon as they really did deliver a pretty wild little film.

Toronto85 Quite a few hospital horror movies were being made around this time such as Halloween II and Visiting Hours. Hospital Massacre isn't released on DVD and is the hardest to find of the bunch. It is also the lesser of the three movies mentioned. Hospital Massacre sounds great in theory, a psychotic killer stalking the halls of a deserted hospital trying to kill a very beautiful woman. But after watching Hospital Massacre, I found out that it isn't all that great unfortunately. The movie starts with the murder of a young boy on Valentine's Day. After another boy named Harry gets "rejected" by our lead character Susan, he murders the young boy she's playing with. Flash forward 20 years now. Susan has a young child and a boyfriend and she is headed the hospital to find out test results from a routine checkup she had done. We then see our killer who is dressed up as a surgeon. He switches her test results to make it seem that she is dying, when then leads to the hospital staff forcefully admitting Susan to the hospital overnight. We get a few kills along the way of nurses, doctors and secretaries. It all leads up the finale and revelation of the murderer.Obviously the killer is Harry from all those years ago. The mystery we have to solve is "who is Harry"? We saw him as a kid so we don't know what he looks like as an adult. The suspects include a couple of doctors, one by the name of Harry (go figure). The murders aren't anything special, sort of bloody but not too much. It's just all so random for me. He kills a bunch of nurses before we even get introduced to them. One second we see Susan talking and then bam, a random nurse gets stabbed. No character development at all.I liked the creepy deserted hospital scenes and a few of the murders were well done like when he is chasing a nurse down the dark hall. But Hospital Massacre felt rushed and very busy. Too many things were going on and yet nothing was being explained. We get that the killer is insane, but why kill all of these random people? There were times he could have easily killed Susan, but he chose to kill hospital staff that for the most part weren't even in his way. It's worth at least one watch for horror fans, but could have been better.5/10

acidburn-10 The plot centers around Susan, when she was a young girl she rejected a boy who sent her a valentines card and then the boy kills her brother and then years later Susan arrives at a local hospital for a rountine check up unaware that someone dressed up as a surgeon is killing off docters and nurses and is hell bent on keeping Susan trapped for his own personal revenge.Well a slasher set in a hospital is certainly different, kind of an odd setting, but in my opinion it's no different from other slasher movies during this era, The movie is quite slow and even though it has its good moments.I ultimately didn't think that this was anything special. If it would only have settled with being a basic slasher movie this would probably have been a whole lot more entertaining but instead they tried to make it into a mystery thriller which just doesn't work. You couldn't care less about Susan's decease and there just doesn't seem like there was a lot of heart put into making this movie. All in all, not a bad movie but not great, could have been a lot better and a little far fetched, I mean how come no one notices that doctors and nurses are getting killed off in a big hospital as well.