While not bad, a bit silly and certainly not a good movie, it wasn't terrible, either. I seriously doubt a hospital could function, anywhere and someone, somehow, doesn't know about it.Not likely...Not even in Louisiana.I'm a Jennette Goldstein fan, so I enjoyed her performance. Stocked with has-been actors, they still put in solid performances.Watch it for free, because it's certainly NOT worth paying for, but it's worth the time.
... View MoreI rented this, because it did sound interesting. Now I am a classic horror fan, I love those movies like Friday the 13th, Halloween, Black Christmas, E.T.C.. I also realize my video store doesn't carry those great films, only the horror films of today, I have seen some classics, surprise. I also rented it because of Janette Goldstein( Aliens) and Robert Patrick(T2). I do like films about psycho doctor's and that's why I picked it up. I found this film with a lot of plot holes; and of course medical inaccuracy. We start out with friends having a great time in New Orleans, having one hell of a time on Spring Break . They are filming each other and enjoying their time. The movie then cuts and we find they have been in a serious crash, with a tree on a deserted Louisiana road. They find out they ran over this patient who is still alive. An ambulance quickly arrives and takes the patient and them to a hospital for treatment. Little to the kids know that this is not a functioning hospital. They soon find out they walk into a trap, the hospital has been closed for some time, and it's a hide out for a doctor who is conducting experiments on innocent people. He uses their bodies to conduct a new experiment trying to save his wife from Cancer. This is not a movie for those who cringe at the sight of blood and gore. It is your typical new age horror film , lacking on plot, if you like blood and gore- go for it. This movie, could have been at least a 7, if it wasn't for the blood/gore; and some of the ridiculous scenes. I felt they went way overboard on gore especially the ending where she finds her boyfriend. I mean get real, who is going to believe that S**T. I probably made this movie sound good, but it is far from your old school horror films.
... View MoreFive kids in Lousina run over someone and crash into a tree. They end up in a hospital from the Twilight Zone. The nurse is unhelpful, the two orderlies look and act like felons, the Dr. doesn't seem quite right, and it's lit like a dance club.The lovely Jessica Lowndes plays Emily a formed med school student who didn't make it past first year. Her boyfriend was seen by the Dr first but he never returns. She goes looking for him. When she meets the Dr, he does a lumbar puncture on her for no good reason. Another kid is a junkie who is offered all sorts of drugs by one of the orderlies. Another girl ends up with the back of her head smashed in. When Emily finds her she realizes something is clearly not right.What follows is your usual endless running around colorful hallways. Run-ins with the crazy nurse, the crazy doctor, and the violent orderlies. At some point she calls a cop, he arrives, he doesn't quite believe her story and ends up dead.Eventually we find out what is going on, the Dr. is keeping is half-dead wife alive using the innards and fluids of anyone who ends up at the hospital- and there are quite a few victims. Emily at some point walks into a room where one of the orderlies, played delightfully as always by LaSardo, is removing finger prints from hacked up hands and the room is filled with other body parts.Emily will eventually find her boyfriend and it's pretty gory. The ending is also very good.Autopsy is charmingly enthusiastic about gore and violence. But the realism of those two is ruined by the cartoonish characters of the villains and in general about the other-dimensionality of the hospital, which completely goes against the realism of the gore. Had this movie presented a more realistic hospital with villains that are crazy but not ridiculously so, it could have been a success. Jessica Lowndes also manages to carry the movie in contrast to some acting veterans who struggle. There's no mistaking this movie for anything other than the work of a first-time director. It is endearing how much of a fan of horror he is, but he has a hard time directing people. Of course he also could have used some help with the script. Some nudity would also have helped. Autopsy is a decent effort that should have been better. It has lots of great gore going for it, as well as the work of Lowndes and LaSardo. Even the basic story is pretty good but the director could have made more of it.
... View MoreFirst let me set the scene: After a night of drunken partying in N'Awlins some horny, stoned, drunk teens – 5 in all – head home. Unfortunately they crash on the way home, and for some insanely inexplicable reason actually end up on the body of a man dressed in hospital patient attire.Now let's do a quick questionnaire! Why? Did no-one say "that's a little odd!"? Especially when literally 30 seconds later an ambulance screams around the corner, picks up the body and sez "You guys should come too to check out your bumps".They leave the car and hop right in Why? When in the hospital does no-one think it odd that they must be checked out one at a time by the Doc, and you can't even check on your friends? Why? Would someone in the waiting room answer an unattended ringing hospital reception phone? Furthermore who would then investigate where the call might have come from? Who? Can tear apart an attacker with their bare hands? Who? Agrees to a needle in the spine to extract fluid to check a knock to the head? (You might respond "they didn't know better", but in this case it was a med student!) Which? 5 teens go out for a night nowadays and not one of them has a mobile phone? Which? Teen can't explain succinctly enough to a Cop that something is suss as a bloodied and seedy looking orderly stands by in menacing fashion? Who? Doesn't have some sort of lingering effect – or even noticeable pain – after being drilled in the head for about a minute? Who? Doesn't show a little nekkid flesh in a sh*tty generic gore film with 2 hot chicks running around in tight clothes? And finally Who? Deserves to die in bloodcurdling agony at the hands of an evil nurse (played by Vazquez in Aliens and one of the vampires in Near Dark), a seedy orderly (one of the seedy orderlies in Kill Bill – typecast!) and a maniacal and depraved Doctor (only Robert Patrick – T1000 himself!)? Answer? Only the vacuous dipsh*t teens in Autopsy, an awful excuse for a so-called horror film that is essentially an excuse to highlight some so-so gore effects.That's Who? Final Rating – 4.5 / 10. I have low expectations for these things going in. When 8 minutes in I know exactly where this is headed and that there is 0% chance those low expectations will be met it is disappointing – not as disappointing as knowing I still have 80 minutes still to go though.
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