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A slickly executed and extremely grisly ghost story. --Variety
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
By All of them Witches
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Format:DVD
It's all in the marketing. Great title and cover picture but unfortunately another average Thai horror that promises much but ultimately fails to deliver. Beginning with an interesting sounding premise; a rogue surgeon and gaggle of nurses involved in organ harvesting and blackmarket selling kill a fellow love spurned nurse who is threating to spill the beans. Unfortuntely that plot device is fully utilised and discarded within the opening 5 minutes and the rest of the film falls into formulaic ghost with lots of hair crawls up walls etc whilst in pursuit of screamy female.
It's just not scary or even creepy. The film is just a lot of set pieces revolving around the dead nurse appearing in random rooms around the hospital to scare and then kill those responsible for killing her in very unimaginative ways. Apart from these nurses the hospital is seemingly devoid of all other staff and patients as there is not another soul to be seen.
I watched half of this film a couple of months ago before switching off and decided to finally watch it again from the start in case I liked it any better. I didn't. Be aware also that the synopsis of this film as provided on this site is widely inaccurate and also the running time of this film is 75 mins not the 91 mins it claims. This film is devoid of any creativity which is such a shame given the premise. I couldn't recommend this to anyone though people who have not explored the genre of asian horror may find some novelty value therein. Just about ok if you're truely at a loose end but certainly not as provocative or creepy as its marketing purports.
It's just not scary or even creepy. The film is just a lot of set pieces revolving around the dead nurse appearing in random rooms around the hospital to scare and then kill those responsible for killing her in very unimaginative ways. Apart from these nurses the hospital is seemingly devoid of all other staff and patients as there is not another soul to be seen.
I watched half of this film a couple of months ago before switching off and decided to finally watch it again from the start in case I liked it any better. I didn't. Be aware also that the synopsis of this film as provided on this site is widely inaccurate and also the running time of this film is 75 mins not the 91 mins it claims. This film is devoid of any creativity which is such a shame given the premise. I couldn't recommend this to anyone though people who have not explored the genre of asian horror may find some novelty value therein. Just about ok if you're truely at a loose end but certainly not as provocative or creepy as its marketing purports.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
By Mr. Jonathon T. Beckett
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Format:DVD|Amazon Verified Purchase
!!!WARNING. MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS!!!
When nurse Tawan spies on her supposed husband to be Dr Taa having his wicked way with her sister Nook, Tawan threatens to spill the beans about the profitable organ harvesting scam Taa and his bevvy of impossibly glamourous nurses(no battleaxe matrons to be found here!) are involved in. Bad move Tawan, as soon she's on the operating table,restrained by her one time colleagues as her sister stabs her to death. However, vengeance is possible even from beyond the grave, as after seven days, Tawan returns to Forgiven Hospital to exact a bloody revenge on those who contributed to her death.....
This is a very fine Thai horror, with a great vein of very black humour running through it, and a great visual flair as well. Some of the set pieces when Tawan goes about her ghostly business, using the personal demons of her killers against them, are wildly inventive and contain a couple of very outlandish moments. In what other film can you find a character slicing her own jawbone off with a handful of nails, and subsequently being asphyxiated by a pickled foetus.
Interestingly enough, although the film starts to come across as Carry On Horror Hospital, there is a very human, tragic heart beating just under the surface, as the true revalations regarding Tawan come to light during the climax of the film. Let's just say Tawan had been on the operating table before the occasion of her untimely death. So what had been up to then a very funny, gory supernatural horror suddenly found itself an evocative edge.
Very enjoyable, another excellent Asian horror film. 5 out of 5
When nurse Tawan spies on her supposed husband to be Dr Taa having his wicked way with her sister Nook, Tawan threatens to spill the beans about the profitable organ harvesting scam Taa and his bevvy of impossibly glamourous nurses(no battleaxe matrons to be found here!) are involved in. Bad move Tawan, as soon she's on the operating table,restrained by her one time colleagues as her sister stabs her to death. However, vengeance is possible even from beyond the grave, as after seven days, Tawan returns to Forgiven Hospital to exact a bloody revenge on those who contributed to her death.....
This is a very fine Thai horror, with a great vein of very black humour running through it, and a great visual flair as well. Some of the set pieces when Tawan goes about her ghostly business, using the personal demons of her killers against them, are wildly inventive and contain a couple of very outlandish moments. In what other film can you find a character slicing her own jawbone off with a handful of nails, and subsequently being asphyxiated by a pickled foetus.
Interestingly enough, although the film starts to come across as Carry On Horror Hospital, there is a very human, tragic heart beating just under the surface, as the true revalations regarding Tawan come to light during the climax of the film. Let's just say Tawan had been on the operating table before the occasion of her untimely death. So what had been up to then a very funny, gory supernatural horror suddenly found itself an evocative edge.
Very enjoyable, another excellent Asian horror film. 5 out of 5
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
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what we have here is a good old fashioned tale of revenge
the film is set in a hospital,the doctor and his 7 nurses make a sly bit of money on the side by selling dead bodies for the parts,after a disagreement one of the nurses decides she is going to blow the whistle on them
unsurprisingly they are less than keen on sudden moral change of direction and they decide to do the most sensible thing they can think of at this point in time
kill her
with her dying breath she utters an ancient curse and vows revenge on them within 7 days
the film focuses on the last 25 minutes of the seventh day when she returns to exact her revenge on the reamining six nurses
whhere this film succeeds is its breathless pace,inventive and creepy direction,atmospheric soundtrack,a great black sense of dark and morbid humour and some great perfomances from everybody involved
the plot is pretty basic but its there to serve as a platform to ramp up the tension and some of the nastiest deaths i have seen in some time
add to the film an ingenious twist and you have a short but very effective piece of asian cinema
the film is set in a hospital,the doctor and his 7 nurses make a sly bit of money on the side by selling dead bodies for the parts,after a disagreement one of the nurses decides she is going to blow the whistle on them
unsurprisingly they are less than keen on sudden moral change of direction and they decide to do the most sensible thing they can think of at this point in time
kill her
with her dying breath she utters an ancient curse and vows revenge on them within 7 days
the film focuses on the last 25 minutes of the seventh day when she returns to exact her revenge on the reamining six nurses
whhere this film succeeds is its breathless pace,inventive and creepy direction,atmospheric soundtrack,a great black sense of dark and morbid humour and some great perfomances from everybody involved
the plot is pretty basic but its there to serve as a platform to ramp up the tension and some of the nastiest deaths i have seen in some time
add to the film an ingenious twist and you have a short but very effective piece of asian cinema
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
By Mr. A. Jones
Format:DVD
Don't let the cover of this film tempt you, it's STUPID and rubbish! Please save your money and spend it on a decent horror!
7 of 9 people found the following review helpful
By NELMES316
Format:DVD
Wow! I never thought I would be writing about how much I enjoyed a Thai horror film. This nasty little flick is just so entertaining. It's scary, gory, bizarre and surprisingly sexy. I would probably best describe it as Ring meets carry on. Yes the plot is unintelligent. The nurses are giggling buffoons. Sexy yes, but don't expect to see any gratuitous nudity though. These girls even shower with all their clothes on?!? We have the obligatory Samara like Asian hair ghost dishing out revenge. Each kill is based on each of the nurses' vices. Some of these death scenes are quite creative. Add to this the camp humour and some surprising plot twists. The whole thing is a blast to watch.
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it was fantastic had been looking for it for ages love the twisted horra . glad to have the dvd for my colection
Published 9 days ago by Mizz Amanda
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never like it
I still can not find a good horror movie yet most I got are very disappointing and not scare would like to find a good horror movie
Published 1 month ago by winston reid
2.0 out of 5 stars
Promised sooooo much
I'm not stupid. Ignored the pre-hype 'Like a cross between Hostel and The Grudge' yawn. It looks ace, the make-up's great, and, yes, the nurses are indeed tres foxy. Read more
Published 2 months ago by vonnegut88
2.0 out of 5 stars
Did something happen?
There's little to write as there was little worth reviewing. I watch a lot of asian movies of all types and a lot are low budget so you sorta know what to expect. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Hakkattack
3.0 out of 5 stars
foreign dvd
this DVD was foreign with English Subtitles it was fast speaking so you had to be quick to read the subtitles but overall not a bad DVD
Published 6 months ago by ga walters
4.0 out of 5 stars
Guilty pleasure?
Nope. I make no excuses for finding this killer ghost flick hugely enjoyable. A group of nurses, who look more like lingerie models (I'm not joking), kill one of their own to... Read more
Published 15 months ago by JKG
3.0 out of 5 stars
Stick with those Sick Nurses
I love my Korean horror and 'Sick Nurses' represented a rare dabble with Thai cinema for me. Given the quite silly title, it's fair to say that this film doesn't take itself... Read more
Published 17 months ago by Fine and Dandy
1.0 out of 5 stars
Don't waste your time!
Unfortunatly Amazon won't publish my review if I use the words I wanted to.
On the box it says 'The Grudge meets Hostal'. Honestly I don't know where they get that from! Read more
On the box it says 'The Grudge meets Hostal'. Honestly I don't know where they get that from! Read more
Published on 9 Jun 2010 by P. J. Wadkin
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