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Music director
  
Virgil Franklin

Country
  
United States

2.8/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Horror

Duration
  

Language
  
English

Poster of "The Hospital", a 2013 horror film featuring a girl wearing a white shirt with blood and holding a knife.

Director
  
Tommy GoldenDaniel Emery Taylor

Release date
  
March 15, 2013 (2013-03-15)

Writer
  
Jim ORear, Daniel Emery Taylor

Directors
  
Daniel Emery Taylor, Tommy Golden

Initial DVD release
  
March 3, 2014 (United Kingdom)

Cast
  
(Alan),
Daniel Emery Taylor
(Stanley Creech), (Officer Chapman),
April Monique Burril
(Mallory)



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The hospital 2013 horror movie review


The Hospital is a 2013 horror film co-directed by Tommy Golden and Daniel Emery Taylor. Having a limited US release in March 2013, the film has subsequently screened at various horror film festivals, was presented at Cannes Film Festival, and took home the "Scariest Movie" award at Germany's largest genre festival, Movie Days, in Dortmund.

Contents

Scene from the movie "The Hospital" featuring four girls talking with each other and carrying their luggage.

Plot summary

Poster of "The Hospital", a 2013 horror film featuring a girl wearing a white shirt with blood and hand full of blood.

College student Beth Stratman (Constance Medrano) decides to travel to the small town of Bridgeport to do some additional research for a paper about local folklore. There are many stories about the old abandoned hospital there. The police think it is full of drug dealers and prostitutes. The locals think it is full of ghosts.

Poster of "The Hospital", a 2013 horror film featuring a little girl with a bike and a woman with scary eyes.

Unfortunately, they are both wrong. Beth instead finds Stanley Creech (Daniel Emery Taylor) who introduces himself as the caretaker of the grounds. She soon finds that Stanley is a psychopath, necrophile, and serial rapist. He holds her for several days, repeatedly raping and torturing her, leaving her no apparent means of escape.

Scene from the movie "The Hospital" featuring a fat guy with a mustache and wearing a brown polo shirt.

Meanwhile, a group of hapless paranormal investigators, led by the goofs Alan (Jim O'Rear) and Jack (Jason Crowe), descend upon the property to document the alleged supernatural activity. This puts the group on a collision course with Stanley since he will do anything to keep his secret from being known. Girls begin to disappear in the night and the group learns that there is more to the story than originally thought. Both Stanley and the ghosts are just the beginning.

Cast

Poster of "The Hospital", a 2013 horror film featuring a girl wearing a white shirt with blood and holding a knife.

  • Jim O'Rear as Alan
  • Daniel Emery Taylor as Stanley Creech
  • John Dugan as Officer Chapman
  • April Monique Burril as Mallory
  • Jason Crowe as Jack
  • Scott Tepperman as Himself
  • Robyn Shute as Skye
  • Alicia M. Clark as Elaine
  • Lauryn MacGregor as Ana
  • Megan Hunt as Alyson
  • Carlo Alvarez as Mark
  • Melanie Contreras as Marie
  • G. Larry Butler as Earl
  • Christina Schimmel as Sergeant Amanda White
  • Eric Branden as Jason
  • Ernest Douglas Nichols as John
  • Production

    Scene from the movie "The Hospital" featuring a girl with blood on her hand while lying on the bed.

    Filming began in mid 2012 in South Pittsburg, Tennessee. The directors chose to film at an abandoned hospital in the area to play off of the current popularity of 'paranormal reality' shows and give the viewer hope that they may see actual ghosts caught on camera.

    Reception

    Poster of "The Hospital", a 2013 horror film featuring a man sneaking at the door.

    Mark L. Miller of Ain't It Cool News gave a mixed review of the film's violence; Miller stated that it features "some of the most depraved kills enacted upon anyone in cinematic history" HorrorNews.net panned the film, which they felt had "offensive, ill-judged, unpleasant and misogynist film making of the worst kind."

    Critical reception

    Scene from the movie "The Hospital" featuring a fat guy with a scary face and wearing a brown polo shirt.

    On 19 March 2014, Tesco removed the horror film off their shelves and apologised after getting complaints for being too graphic and violent for a family store after a customer from Gloucester, England contacted the supermarket.

    References

    The Hospital (2013 film) Wikipedia
    The Hospital (2013 film) IMDb The Hospital (2013 film) themoviedb.org