Last Updated on July 23, 2021
Since the idea of even attempting to make sure everyone in the U.S. has access to quality healthcare apparently inspires people to hate life and politics, it seems like as good a time as any to look at some of the best horror set in and around the medical establishment.
Docs, hospitals, hell even medical experimentation is fair game this week. What’s most important is to make everyone see that it could be so much worse for us all than the socialist, Hitler-style hellscape that our healthcare system is now guaranteed to turn into. And if your first thought is that socialism and the Nazi regime under Hitler are nothing alike then you have no business offering your informed opinions about important policy issues in a world run by CNN and FOX News.
So anyway, onward my friends. And if you want to offer up some other medical terror that I missed, then spit those bullets below.
WARNING – HEALTH CARE GONE BAD BELOW!
5. FLATLINERS
Given the collected star power in this movie at the time it came out, I’m not sure how they managed to pull it off, but man I’m glad they did. Sure most people would think that purposely agreeing to kill yourself and your friends so that you could then resuscitate each other is pretty stupid, but then we wouldn’t get to watch all these former It actors get haunted by all manner of creepy shite. And where’s the fun in that?
4. SAW 6
Who’da thought that healthcare would be the issue that returned the SAW franchise to a semblance of its former glory? On top of that surprise, we also get to see the character of Hoffman expanded into a more interesting dude, while the traps take on a consistent theme of there being no right choice when you try to determine that some people deserve to live and others don’t. Yet those choices when set up that way must still be made.
3. THE MAN WITH X-RAY EYES
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This may be the first appearance of a Roger Corman film on one of my lists, possibly because his work, while entertaining and awesome in it’s own way, doesn’t really tap what we serve here. But in this case of a doctor who’s self-experimentation with vision enhancement eventually leads to x-ray sight and madness, we’ve got one helluva a tasty low budget treat. Not only does it fully immerse itself in the subject of medical experimentation, but it also has one of the more interesting endings you’ll encounter. The film’s imperfect, and the visual f/x are dated, but it still packs a mean punch.
2. HELLRAISER 2
The doctor is in and he is mean. At the center of this film is a hospital/asylum that makes the character’s eventual trip into Hell seem almost kind. Dr. Channard’s a bastard of the first degree, and his fascination with human experimentation and manipulation in order to crack the secrets of the Lament Configuration are a mixture of cold blooded and outright sadistic. And that’s before he gets turned into a Cenobite!
1. DEAD RINGERS
Hard to imagine a more f*cked up situation in real medicine than the possibility of your twin, woman trading gynecologist showing up crazy one day and trying to use his “new” tools on you. You know, the ones he had specially crafted to use on chicks with mutant vaginas. And even creepier, said doc looks like Jeremy Irons. Shudder.
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