Tuesday, March 30, 2021

Hospital (2020)

Took a long time to find the right movie titled "Hospital" on IMDb. This one is about a father-son priest duo who agree to take two women on a tour of an abandoned hospital with an ugly history of people killing themselves. I am a sucker for people marching stupidly into places they shouldn't. One woman's husband died there after a heart procedure, the other's sister was a nurse who committed suicide. They would both like to see their dead loved ones. What could go wrong?

Well, the widow sued the hospital, and the nurse in particular, for the death of her husband.Which helped drive the nurse to throw herself out a window. So, that's awkward. Then there's the fact neither of them will listen to what the father says. He lets one drink some Yin water so she can see her sister, she insists on doing it again. He says no, she grabs the bottle away and it shatters on the ground. Which is bad, because it attracts spirits, including one particularly angry one.

Things go downhill from there.

The movie isn't very well put together. The characters and the plot can't seem to decide which tragedy they want to focus on. For a while, the son and the widow are trying to find his father. But then they seem to get caught up in the history of a mother who lit herself and her son's body on fire. They don't accomplish anything by this, other than us actually seeing the death we'd already been told about. Then the son's like, "Wait, I still need to find my father", and the widow goes, "Wait, I still want to see my dead husband", and off they go in separate directions. 

The other woman reaches out to her sister and they seem to jump out a window together. But then she's still seemingly alive later to jump out the window again, alone. The widow finally sees her husband, but there's another ghost, too? Maybe she's the original spirit that caused all the problems? Maybe she's just another victim of the grieving mother? I don't know.

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