Horror Hospital

1973

Action / Comedy / Horror / Sci-Fi

12
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 41% · 250 ratings
IMDb Rating 5.3/10 10 2089 2.1K

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Plot summary

Following his forced retirement from an appalling rock band, Jason decides to vacation at Brittlehouse Manor, a health farm run by the leather-gloved, ex-Nazi scientist Dr. Storm. Along the way, Jason meets Judy, also on her way to Brittlehouse Manor to visit her aunt, who married Dr. Storm some years ago. Once they arrive, the pair realise rather quickly that something is wrong, probably because the other guests have had their brains surgically removed, or all the blood pouring from the sink, or possibly just because the creepy midget keeps telling them to brush their teeth.

Director

Antony Balch Photo
Antony Balch

Top cast

Dennis Price Photo
Dennis Price as Mr. Pollack
Michael Gough Photo
Michael Gough as Dr. Christian Storm
Robin Askwith Photo
Robin Askwith as Jason Jones
Kenneth Benda Photo
Kenneth Benda as Carter
720p.BLU
701.10 MB
1280*720
English 2.0
R
24.000 fps
1 hr 30 min
Seeds 6

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by John Chard 5 / 10

Garbled mess entertains royally. It's one of those

Garbled mess entertains royally. It's one of those creaky British horrors that always show up on the BBC in the early hours of the morning. The reason for this is that the only ones watching are the drunks staggering in from the pub, or the insomniacs interested in a thrill to pass the time away with. The former are the better off because this is a film where not being of sober mind can only aid the viewing. It's bonkers in plotting, Robin Askwith (just prior to his shift into a sex comedy franchise) is a stressed out singer with a pop group. He decides to go for some R&R at a country retreat. He hooks up with Vanessa Shaw on the train journey in, and once they arrive at the retreat they find it's a bizarro world inhabited by mute bikers, lobotomised robots, a malignant dwarf and a mad doctor (Michael Gough) in a wheelchair! That's pretty much it, not much makes sense, there's a little sexy nudity, a whole host of sequences where the zombies do nothing of interest, some scenes of the dwarf (Skip Martin) mixing potions and puddings, and some cool fake fights between Askwith and chums and the crash helmet bikers. It plods along gleefully to the finale's big reveal and chase/escape sequence, to round it off as car crash cinema. Splendidly bad and joyful in subtexts. 5/10
Reviewed by derek-duerden 6 / 10

Lovely 1970s Atmosphere

This of course is not a "great film", but its heart is in the right place and many of the characters really go with it, despite the preposterous plot.Michael Gough, in particular, is great as the evil doctor, and Skip Martin has a lot of fun with the "igor" role, as does Dennis Price with his cameo. The main couple as also good - so much so that I was intrigued to see that Vanessa Shaw apparently never did another film. Robin Askwith of course went on to create a reputation of enduring fame.What I found most evocative, strangely, were the scenes on and about the railway - it looked convincingly like Victoria and the Brighton Line, and the interior carriage scenes took me straight back to commuting to school on trains that looked exactly like that.I didn't find it as funny as I think I was supposed to, but it must have worked very well as a late-night TV horror treat as a complement to the Hammer canon.
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