The Hospital (2013)

Lighting = awful, camera work=awful, sound=awful, editing = awful, sfx = awful, acting = awful, direction = obviously awful, and production = must have a mental health issue to finance this.According to IMDb the estimated budget was $100,000 – NO WAY. At most a few hundred bucks for fake blood and a few props – unless members of the cast were paid – which seems highly unlikely.From the opening title which is so badly produced, edited and encoded that it jerks and jumps its way overlaid on top of equally poor quality video, to (what one presumes and hopes is) the end, it lumbers along, struggling to find any continuity whatsoever. Totally random shots and people appear with no link to the previous scene and… well, it's just awful from start to finish.Goodness know what 'equipment' they used, but the image is of such a poor quality that it could have been shot on an old smartphone. Either that, or whoever was the camera operator didn't have a clue what they were doing.The lighting was direct and harsh, and it seemed as though there was only one light used, although the colour temperature of the light ranged from orange to blue – with no discernible reason for the change.The sound sounds as though it was recorded on a Dictaphone placed 'somewhere' in the room, with much of the overacted dialogue remaining unheard because of the sonic ambiance of the room. Echo-a-mundo! The few post-production 'effects' were so bad it was as though a five year-old had been employed to do them.Really – what were they thinking!! Absolutely everything is awful with this film. I have seen a thousand times better amateur holiday videos than this trash.Looking for something positive to say about this film is a struggle – and that's being generous. Perhaps the only thing was that there were some very nice naked breasts – apart form that, nothing at all.

I would give this a -10 if I could. This was one movie I wish I have never seen or wasted my time on. To me it seemed like it was the filmmaker and possibly even the male actors involved cheap excuse to get all the girls naked and to subject them to rape, torture, etc... Disgusting and vile acts are shown dealing with "body fluids" and "Necrophilia" just to name a couple... Why the females would even agree to be a part of this is beyond me? If they were or are that desperate to be in a movie then they would have been better off doing an honest porn/adult movie or even a soft core adult movie instead of what they subjected themselves to in this movie just to be in a movie. Like I said, I just can't believe people would actually agree to go ahead and do the things or allow the other people to do things to them just for a "movie" and with how it is it just appears like the writer/directors cheap way of getting girls to be naked and to abuse them. Completely horrible and avoid at all costs...

Never have I seen such an obvious list of "reviewers" (ie actors, friends of the director, etc) giving such an awful pile of utter garbage so much undeserved praise. Do not believe the 10 star reviews, people, this film has nothing going in its favour - cheap and shoddy "actors" and sets, horrific dialogue,amateur film-making...at it's absolute worst! Those of you with a masochistic/misogynistic streak in you may get off watching an endless stream of women getting tortured,knifed,raped and killed,but as a horror movie fan, I am ashamed of movies like this - there's no wit, context,explanation, just women (and women only) being horrifically murdered. Don't support this kind of film-making, please, as it gives the horror genre a terrible name.I didn't manage to sit through this pile of garbage to the end as I already felt as if my eyes were being punished - it's NOT hostel, not by a million miles. It's just cheap,nasty and cruel.

As a long time fan of this genre, I have very high standards for what moves me. It takes a lot to make me squirm and much more to surprise me. Jim O'Rear and Daniel Emery Taylor succeeded on both accounts. The Hospital starts working its way under your skin even before the opening credits finish and keeps going right through to the end. Though it does have some sound-quality challenges and a couple of special effects quirks, it is worth every minute. Just when you think that they can't make you any more uncomfortable, hold on because they are going to dial it up to 11. The subtle pop-culture references juxtaposed into hellish carnage is nothing short of brilliant. This is must see for any true horror fan!