Women’s pain is not only highlighted, but it is seen as humorous in this body horror movie.

Sexual predators hide in plain sight, sometimes hiding in white lab coats. Dead Ringers highlights abusive gynecology. The corrupt practice turns catastrophic when one of the twins develops an opioid addiction that leads to delusional and dangerous behavior.

Twin gynecologists Elliot and Beverly seduce and secretly share their patients. Dead Ringers (1988) Jeremy Irons (seen here in red surgical scrubs) plays twins Elliot and Beverly, characters inspired by real-life gynecologist twins Stewart and Cyril Marcus. Though this sequel is generally well-liked by fans of the franchise, director Rick Rosenthal returned to the series just over two decades later to direct one of the most maligned Halloween films, Halloween: Resurrection(2002). Michael murders many people inside and outside the hospital while searching for Laurie, significantly increasing the blood and violence when compared to John Carpenter’s original Halloween. Picking up the story immediately after the end of Halloween (1978), Michael Myers follows Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) to the hospital where she is taken after surviving Michael’s earlier attacks. The Best Hospital Horror Movies Halloween II (1981) The hospital setting of Halloween II (1981) is referenced in Rob Zombie’s Halloween II(2009) and in David Gordon Green’s Halloween Kills(2021). Horrors that reach past the screen and into our world. All wrapped in the horrors of healthcare facilities. The characters in this article exist at different positions on the sanity and physical health spectrums. While watching these films, you may come upon a terrifying realization: your freedom and safety depend on the flimsy definition of sanity. Changes to institutions immediately followed, proving the impact a film can make. Decades later, it finally found its way back to the public. Titicut Follies became the first film banned for reasons other than obscenity, immorality, or national security. This frightened state officials enough for a Superior Court judge to order a ban on the film.

Filmmakers captured the abuse that is common in mental health spaces. 1967 saw the release of Titicut Follies, a documentary investigating Bridgewater State Hospital. The unease and fear of hospitals and doctors has been a source of inspiration in horror films for well over a century, as seen here in final scene of The Cabinet of Dr. The horror is the system and structure of medical care, rather than its patients. Why are we so afraid of a place meant to symbolize wellness? Is it the fact that wounded bodies lie beyond every corner, bags of blood dangling around them? Or maybe it’s because dead bodies rest in the basement, their spirits left to wander sterile halls in search of a new host.

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