A doctor makes his living on the black market harvesting and selling organs. When he falls out of love with his girlfriend, he kills her and harvests her organs. That way he can live happily ever after with her sexy sister. This, if you ask me, takes him right out of the running for the Boyfriend of the Year award. While he’s out of the office collecting payment, his girlfriend’s spirit is wreaking havoc on the hot nurses who helped perform the operation.
Sick Nurses is a terrific Thai horror flick that has a neat gimmick. The spirit has until the stroke of midnight to kill her victims to successfully get her revenge. The nurses all wind up splitting up at quarter of twelve, and the ghost goes to work on the nurses at approximately the same time. Because of that, after every death, we go back in time five minutes and follow a different nurse until they meet their demise.
It helps that the nurses are all spunky, colorful, and lively characters. There’s always a temptation in horror movies to make the victims interchangeable and disposable. You know, just more fodder for the body count. This one bucks the trend and gives us lots of female characters who are fun to watch.
The body count, it should be said, is rather hefty. I’ll admit, some of the kill scenes are stronger than others (what’s with Asian horror movies and hair?), but there are several disturbing/disgusting/badass moments here, along with plenty of atmosphere on display, which means there’s lots of fun to be had. The scene where a nurse hacks her own jawbone off is particularly gnarly.
The ghost herself is pretty cool too. Painted black, wearing a mossy-looking dress, and flashing a striking deadpan stare, she cuts a memorable image while tormenting the sleazy nurses. It all culminates in a legitimately shocking twist ending that I can honestly say I didn’t see coming. In short, Sick Nurses lives up to its title. And then some.
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