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Horror Hospital | 
| Actors: Robin Askwith, Kenneth Benda, James Boris Iv, Kurt Christian, Michael Gough
Studio: Elite Entertainment
Category: DVD
List Price: $24.95
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Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 70772
Format: Color, Dvd-video, Letterboxed, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 0
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
DVD Layers: 1
DVD Sides: 1
Picture Format: Letterbox
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 91 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
UPC: 790594467722
EAN: 0790594467722
ASIN: B00000JYX9
Theatrical Release Date: April 1975
Release Date: November 2, 1999
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In swinging '70s London, Jason (Robin Askwith), a Brian Jones doppelgaenger, grows weary of the rock scene and decides it's time for a vacation. He responds to a flyer for a "Hairy Holiday" and meets up with Judy (Vanessa Shaw) on the way, but they soon find that their resort is actually a Hippie-to-Zombie Conversion Center, complete with crazed researcher (Michael Gough), evil midget, and lobotomized longhairs. The doctor harvests human heads with a retractable blade attached to his limousine and runs his zombies via remote control. A monster who appears to be made of Silly Putty stalks the grounds and claims an unlucky victim or two, until the midget and heroes plan their escape from the goonatorium. Gough claims some great chewable dialogue (Peter Cushing must have been busy), the midget has a great pathos-laden death scene, and a toxic waste site is also crammed into the overstuffed plot. It's not quite funny enough to be a horror comedy, but there's enough gore to give it the feel of a later-era Hammer film. Horror Hospital breathes some new life into the mad-doctor-and-zombification-facility plot and moves fast enough to keep things interesting, at least. If you don't go into it expecting stupendous effects or deep narrative, it's a fun ride. --Jerry Renshaw
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 Cult British Horror June 3, 2008
Chloe (USA)
I'd seen this at the drive-in when I was a child. My mom used to take us to horror films alot when I was a kid & I've always enjoyed them. There was much suspense when Jason tried to escape, I recall us yelling at the screen... "Run, Jason, Run"! A fun horror flick I think others would enjoy. Also recommended: The Confessional (1975)
It's Good For What Ails Ya... February 20, 2008
Bindy Sue Fronkuenschtein (under the rubble)
Got problems? Feeling run-down and out of sorts? Well, a nice stay at Brittlehouse Manor will fix you right up! Doctor Storm (Michael Gough) along with his teeny tiny henchman, Frederick (Skip Martin) and his nefarious nurse (Ellen Pollock), will get you straightened out. Of course, you must not question their methods. What? You don't like being lobotomized? Scalpals make you queazy? Come on now, you simply must get over these irrational fears and hang-ups! Allow the doctor to work his magic, and join his growing legion of zombie slaves! It's all good therapy. Do watch out for the mysterious, murderous, pink goo-man though! He's bloody dangerous! HORROR HOSPITAL is packed w/ enough insane idiocy to keep any schlock-maniac as happy as a termite in a woodpile. Decapitations! Nudity! Mad science! Hippies! And so much more! Buy immediately...
Like an episode of "The Monkees" with gore and nudity! February 10, 2008
Charlie B. Counselman (Greensboro, NC, USA)
This film is absolutely great! It's kind of like a 90 minute R-rated episode of The 70s TV show "The Monkees" if it was produced by Hammer films. There are lots of cheap thrills and sick jokes, sex, nudity, violence, drug abuse, midgets, and of course a good amount of blood and guts.
One of the first scenes in the movie introduces our hero, a rising rock star living in the excesses of rock and roll decadence. He's had too much to drink and sniffs too much coke and starts a fight. He gets beat up and his band members are fed up with him so he agrees to go somewhere to chill out and get his head together. There was this one scene where the guy booking his trip to this "health spa" (the "Horror Hospital" of the title), and the guy is slyly eyeing his crotch and the bulge in his super tight 70s pants. By this time I was cackling with laughter at the plentiful tasteless humor, and this is all just within the first 15 minutes of the film!
This is a great, great 70s tongue in cheek horror movie. It's basically a satire of the UK rock and roll lifestyle done as a horror comedy, much the same way as the films Rock n' Roll Nightmare and Hard Rock Zombies are horror movie satires of the American hair-metal music scene of 1980s. The film is also quite atmospheric with some great visuals and scenery of old England. I especially recommend this movie to those who enjoyed the Hammer horror films of the 70s, or any of the horror films starring Christopher Lee and/or Peter Cushing.
If you liked this film I also recommend: Flesh For Frankenstein (aka Andy Warhol's Frankenstein), Dr. Frankenstein's Castle of Freaks, Hard Rock Zombies, Rock n' Roll Nightmare, Black Roses, The Horror Express, Messiah of Evil, and The Driller Killer.
Good gory british horror June 2, 2007
M. (Mass.)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is a very strange movie along the lines of "Bloodsucking Freaks" and I also like to think that this movie also helped inspire Eli Roth's "Hostel". Lots of gore, lots of nudity and lots of laughs. I'm kind of surprised this isn't more well known, I wish i had heard about it sooner and if you can pick this up in the "British horror collection", it's a great set well worth the money.
One of the great demented masterpieces of all time. June 2, 2005
M2 (Glendale, CA United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
One might be tempted to say that "Horror Hospital" is a matter of taste, but somehow it's hard to get the film's title and "taste" into the same sentence. Is is a seriously weird, truly demented, wonderfully whacked little gem that has to be seen to be fully appreciated, or maybe even believed. Michael Gough stars as "Dr. Storm," a strange doctor who runs an even stranger health farm, where strange things happen, like severed heads get left in the cistern, and lobotomized victims flop around like fish out of water in failed attempts to have sex. Robin Askwith plays the walking aphrodesiac (go figure) who picks up a cute dolly bird on the train (Vanessa Shaw) and the two quickly find themselves in the shower at Nightmare Castle. There is a plot to the film, sort of, but it hardly matters: "Horror Hospital" is a trip down the rabbit hole's darkest corners, the sort of cheesy but wonderfully fun horror movie that Woody Allen satirized in "Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sex" a year earlier (in the giant marauding breast segment). Askwith and Shaw are game, if not exactly talented (the scene in which Askwith is beaten by helmeted bikers is a comic highlight, though it's not really supposed to be), and Gough, who has a lifetime achievement award from the Swift's Premium company, actually offers a sly, chilling, even understated performance as the ex-Nazi Dr. Storm. The star of the show, though, is dwarf Skip Martin, who appeared in a handful of British horror films in the 1960s and 70s, and who's funny as hell here. The scene in which he laboriously stacks up unconscious guards in order to climb on them to reach a door lock tops anything in any "Pink Panther" movie for sheer laughs. "Horror Hospital" certainly isn't the best horror film made in 1973, but it's the most startling and original.
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