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"Hospital Massacre" is a pretty low aiming shot in the mid 1980's slasher stakes, and it has so many crappy moments in it that you should have a good laugh while watching it. Basically, glamour model Barbi Benton plays Susan Jeremy, a woman who pops into hospital for some routine test results only to find that she can't get out again. This is because a maniac with a serious grudge against her is blocking all escape routes and won't stop until he gets what he wants!

Now let me say that the film isn't all bad, but what really doesn't work is the hilarious implausibility of the "situation" that Susan finds herself in. As soon as the killer knows she is in the hospital, he plants some bogus test results in her file, and from this point onwards all the other hospital staff treat Susan like a dangerous and/or mentally deranged powder keg who must be detained at all costs. Thus we see a perfectly normal woman forced into straps and restraints, slammed into locked wards, subjected to humiliating examinations and, of course, in between all that she's being pursued by a masked killer. Now the film makes quite good use of the hospital location for some good murders, but this supposed inescapability I just did not swallow. Anyway, for even more fun, let me list a few of the really outrageous goofs this film thinks it can get away with. Susan actually leaves her boyfriend in the car waiting while she pops into the hospital for "a few minutes". Amazingly, several hours go by and darkness falls before he even comes to look for her! Next watch out for a side-splitting scene when Susan hides behind a portable screen on wheels just inches away from the killer. Watch as she drops a lighter on the floor and retrieves it with her foot while the killer stares right at the screen without out seeing anything. The screen even has about 12" of space below it where Susan's legs can clearly be seen. Oh sorry she also pulls the material aside to peer through the screen at him, and he doesn't see that either. Next watch for the notorious examination scene where Susan is stripped naked and felt up all over by a doctor in a supposedly sinister fashion. NO WAY would this ever be tolerated or handled in such a sleazy manner in a real hospital. Plus, save your breath for the scene in which a fleeing Susan bursts into a room full of patients in traction, who all spring to life and writhe their tethered, bandaged bodies around like it's a scene from some kind of purgatory. Why? I don't know. There's no reason at all for this shot, expect to put something bizarre to look at into the running time.

I'll say this though, Barbi Benton is not bad in the role of Susan. She screams well enough and is attractive to look at throughout. Shame that the script gives her so many stupid, dumb things to do and never once is there a moment when she decides to just leave the building (it's not a prison, fer crying out loud).

Luckily the murders are pretty good fun and the general looniness of the whole thing definitely makes it fun. Just forget logic and you'll enjoy it.

Early entry into the 80s slasher film craze is surprisingly decent and is one of the few times Golan-Globus Productions ("Invasion U.S.A," "Breakin'," "Revenge of the Ninja," etc.) made a slasher picture. The opening prologue has an unpopular boy named Harold leaving a Valentine's Day card on the doorstep for pretty girl Susan. Susan and her friend find the card, laugh about it, and crumple up the Valentine. Unbeknownst to them, Harold has been watching the whole time. While Susan is getting some cake from the kitchen, she returns to her friend murdered while the creepy Harold stares at her through the window before running off. That's all the set-up you need for this slasher film, which the adult Susan, played by former playmate Barbi Benton, visits the hospital one day for some test results where she is stalked by an adult Harold who is still in love with her. From there, the bodycount continues to grow and just about every male in the hospital might be Harold (it seems like this hospital almost exclusively hired by creepy dudes). Directed and co-written by schlockmeister Boaz Davidson, who's made charming garbage since the 70s like "The Last American Virgin" all the way until today with lame films like "Mega Snake" and "Leatherface" (though he's also produced some classier films like "The Expendables," Rambo 4," and the underrated "Drive Angry"). The plot, characters, and story are pretty non-existent, but Davidson does deliver a good number of suspenseful and creepy hospital themed horrors, particularly an uncomfortable exam of Benton by a creepy doctor that seems to last forever. The film's bloody finale is also quite memorable. There are some slow parts in the second act of the film that drag, but it's not a bad film if you're in the mood for a throwback style slasher that you may have missed. FUN FACT! The film was photographed by Nicholas Josef von Sternberg, son of famed director Josef von Sternberg ("The Blue Angel" "Morocco" "Shanghai Express").

The movie starts off with a young boy who obviously has a crush on this girl. When he sends her a valentine card, she laughs at it. This must have made the boy go psycho. Cut to the present. The girl is now a grown woman, who is going to get a routine check up at her hospital. The killer shows up at the hospital and begins to methodically slice and dice the hospital staff to get to the woman. This movie has some great suspense and atmosphere. The acting was a little below average, but the movie is too good to be missed.

They could have left the killer out of the movie and it would have been just as good! It's so stupid that it's funny. Every scene is bizarre with the half wit doctors and staff. Thankfully none of these things could actually happen in a real hospital. I wasn't expecting much when I watched this and that's exactly what I got. Still, the craziness that occurs is worth a laugh. Watch this when you have nothing else to watch!

Forgive the pretentious summary, but i thought this film was effective precisely for all the elements other reviewers seemed to criticise. It IS fairly well shot (the dark bits are hard work) and the editing's sharp. With a big bombastic orchestral score and lots of OTT moments, this is a cheesy film with plenty of daft false scares and the like, but it's quite nightmarish too. The clichéd parts are tensely handled. Maybe I'm desensitized to bad cinema at the moment, having consumed plenty of terrible 80s slashers recently, but I thought this was pretty good. Little touches like the horrible old women sharing Barbi Benton's hospital ward, cackling like the witches from Macbeth, added to the absurd bad-dream quality. The murder scenes are well handled, violent and rough but not that splattery.

This film has a similar feel to something like 'Don't Answer The Phone!' or 'The Centerfold Girls', serious in intent and not really 'camp' in any way. It's obviously 'bad cinema', but artfully done.

Normally I love movies like this. The late 70s and early 80s made the best stupid horror movies. However, this is just plain stupid. Its not scary, not funny, not anything. It's got some of the usual gratuitous gore and nudity, but most of it is just so boring and the plot is so stupid that it doesn't matter. I'm willing to suspend my disbelief for this kind of movie, but it couldn't even keep my attention.

Hospitals have always been great locations for horror films. With their long, dark hallways where the stench of death looms every second of the day and masked surgeons with access to all sort of sharp tools...and that's not even counting all the bills that come later.

Barbi Benton gets herself into a bit of a dilemma in this particular hospital once she goes to pick up some check up results and gets taken from room to room as doctors try to figure out what's wrong with after a killer switches her test results to keep her around longer. The script is silly, but there's never a dull moment.

Quite a few hospital horror movies were being made around this time such as Halloween II and Visiting Hours. Hospital Massacre isn't released on DVD and is the hardest to find of the bunch. It is also the lesser of the three movies mentioned. Hospital Massacre sounds great in theory, a psychotic killer stalking the halls of a deserted hospital trying to kill a very beautiful woman. But after watching Hospital Massacre, I found out that it isn't all that great unfortunately.

The movie starts with the murder of a young boy on Valentine's Day. After another boy named Harry gets "rejected" by our lead character Susan, he murders the young boy she's playing with. Flash forward 20 years now. Susan has a young child and a boyfriend and she is headed the hospital to find out test results from a routine checkup she had done. We then see our killer who is dressed up as a surgeon. He switches her test results to make it seem that she is dying, when then leads to the hospital staff forcefully admitting Susan to the hospital overnight. We get a few kills along the way of nurses, doctors and secretaries. It all leads up the finale and revelation of the murderer.

Obviously the killer is Harry from all those years ago. The mystery we have to solve is "who is Harry"? We saw him as a kid so we don't know what he looks like as an adult. The suspects include a couple of doctors, one by the name of Harry (go figure). The murders aren't anything special, sort of bloody but not too much. It's just all so random for me. He kills a bunch of nurses before we even get introduced to them. One second we see Susan talking and then bam, a random nurse gets stabbed. No character development at all.

I liked the creepy deserted hospital scenes and a few of the murders were well done like when he is chasing a nurse down the dark hall. But Hospital Massacre felt rushed and very busy. Too many things were going on and yet nothing was being explained. We get that the killer is insane, but why kill all of these random people? There were times he could have easily killed Susan, but he chose to kill hospital staff that for the most part weren't even in his way. It's worth at least one watch for horror fans, but could have been better.

5/10

Wow! Where to begin?

Hospital Massacre seems like one of those movies that an alien from a different planet would make about humans. So many characters behave in such ridiculously bizarre ways that no one seems like a real person. It's probably best to turn off your mind before going into this one and just rolling with it.

The story itself might make zero sense, but it seems as if it's just a coat hanger to hang a series of gory, imaginative death scenes on and those scenes are certainly memorable. It's never terribly gory (in fact, it tends to cut away before it shows too much most of the time), but the scenes themselves are unlike anything you've ever seen. Watch a nurse turn a corner and come face to face with the killer at the end of the hall who's walking towards her with a sheet stretched out in front of him. Like most of the film, it's hard to tell if this is dreamlike and creepy or incredibly hilarious.

Much like the same year's Halloween II, there are only a handful of patients in this entire hospital and the people in charge must be trying to save money on electricity, because there are so many dark corners and hallways everywhere.

Barbi Benton isn't half bad in her meager role which just consists of her looking scared, angry, or hysterical. At least when she isn't being subjected to hysterically gratuitous nude examination scenes.

I'm not sure what Hospital Massacre was intending to be, but it sure turned out fun.

One thing you can say about Hospital Massacre is that it seems like the filmmakers had a great time throwing everything they could at the screen and hoping something would stick. It seems pretty by the numbers, but at the same time, there aren't many other films like it out there and it has a mood all its own. Barbi Benton does just fine in the lead role, managing to conjure up some legitimate sequences of fear and some of the visuals such as a sinister doctor being backlit while racing towards an unlucky nurse in a deserted hospital hallway aren't things you forget anytime soon.

I will admit it--Barbi Benton apparently has done "only" three theatrically release movies and I own all of them on cassette: more than any other actress! She not only can not act, she can not even play herself from one film to the next--but I love her! No wonder Hugh kept her around for close to eight years.

In this movie, Barbi has obviously matured (too much time at the mansion?) and has lost her girlish enthusiasm. The body is still there, but the face is practically gone. She finally achieved the "grown up" look she was striving for in "Naughty Cheerleader".

Overall, this movie did about the best job I have seen in making a hospital look spooky. And it is always gratifying to see the doctors get sliced back.

This movie is the guiltiest of pleasures.

Of all the slasher films that came out in 1981, this is definitely one of them. That said, for some small reason this film sticks out as a perfect example of the slasher film. With it's goofy plot revolving around the identity of the killer, and gratuitous Benton nudity, one really can't go wrong with this title. It's not a great film, but it's got all the key elements of the slasher film, and for that, at least it succeeds on those terms.

A Flatline in Horror

*X-Ray* (a.k.a. *Hospital Massacre*), directed by Boaz Davidson, is a bewildering misfire in the slasher genre. Despite a decent premise, it fails to deliver scares, tension, or even unintentional laughs, leaving audiences stranded in a hospital of absurdity.

Davidson, whose other films often reflect his nostalgic preoccupations with his youth in Israel, brings none of that introspection here. Instead, *X-Ray* is a chaotic blend of paranoia and melodrama, with an over-the-top musical score that feels like it's trying to compensate for the film's lack of real suspense. The blaring, melodramatic crescendos are more exhausting than thrilling, making every scene feel like a miscalculated attempt to amplify tension.

The paranoia that runs through the film never builds into anything meaningful; instead, it feels like a hollow echo of greater themes, perhaps unintentionally gesturing at ideas about control or divine will-the kind of vague "Elohim" undertones that never materialize into anything coherent.

Barbi Benton is given little to work with, her performance reduced to wandering through implausible scenarios in a lifeless hospital setting. However, the few moments when the camera hovers near Benton's pelvic bone offer a strange and fleeting delight, an almost absurd reprieve from the rest of the film's tedium.

Even by the forgiving standards of '80s slashers, *X-Ray* is a disappointment: a loud, paranoid, and utterly forgettable mess.

God Bless Barbi Benton. She gives us a great, explicit nude scene. When that's the highlight of a movie, it means that the whole movie sucks.

"Hospital Massacre" is a boring, standard 80's slasher with a stupid premise (although we get to know who is the killer at the end). The events are predictable, the gore is horrible, but worst of all, the movie has horrible cinematography and lightning. I couldn't believe this was released in theaters. Still, if you love 80's slashers get a copy of this obscure movie.

Not enough blood, scares, mystery, but has great nudity. Again, this is a must see for fans of Barbi Benton.

I don't know if there's a DVD release, but stick anyways to the VHS version. This movie is doomed.

Barbi Benton is in trouble. You see, she went to the hospital to get her routine checkup results, but a psycho has switched them with the x-rays of someone who has some sort of deadly disorder and, now, the doctors won't let her leave, because they need more tests, putting her in the perfect place for this crazy man to kill her and everyone else he comes across.

There isn't a lot of mystery to Hospital Massacre and you always know who the killer will turn out to be. They're barely disguised with a doctor's hat and surgical mask on, but some of the set pieces are interesting and it's not completely devoid of suspense.

Hospital Massacre is also known as X-Ray a terrible 1981 horror film. I have to call this implausible junk - because that is what it is. I had to keep fast-forwarding through the film because it's that bad.

The so-called "legitimate" doctor does not act that way at all - he acts likes like a perverted sick-o himself - and so did the nurses but not as bad as the so-call doctor. It's as if they were in on it too and for no reason.

I could not even get a laugh out of this film -- some scary films are not scary - in fact they are quite funny but this one is NOT that way. It's just junk. Between the bad acting and horrible script I had problems sitting through it - so yes I kept fast-forwarding and stopping to watch just to fast-forward again... did that until the end. Every thing I watched was pure nonsense - this is NOT the way a "legitimate" hospital would act.... even if a killer was among them, the rest of the staff would act "legitimate" - not in this junky film.

Sorry I have to rate this a 1 - only because they make me rate this film - too bad there is not a 0 and below rating.

1/10

I just got finished watching this turkey under the Hospital Massacre title on CED. What a waste. Most of the scenes were shot in shadow which was in itself unbelievable. Barbi strips for a doctor even though he is not her doctor and she doesn't know why. The Killer had little motive and a less than believable part. Even when they stepped on each others lines they used the Ed Wood method of directing that is don't reshoot a scene. There is a reason this has three different aliases you would too if you stunk this bad.

What did I just watch? You might find yourself asking that same question when the end credits of Hospital Massacre (a.k.a. X-Ray) begin scrolling up. It's certainly not boring. That'd good, right?

Playboy playmate, Barbi Benton, stars as a woman stopping into a hospital to get some routine test results back and, without warning, finds herself trapped in a bizarre nightmare down the rabbit hole. What the hell kind of hospital is this? Not only does it seem impossibly understaffed and smokey, but is every man working there a pervert? Oh yes, they all look at poor Benton as if she's the first woman they've seen in 30 years and many of them get to examine her in the nude. #TimesUp, fellas!

Besides all of these weirdness, none of the patients seem to have a normal ailments like broken legs or something. No, they all seem physically fine. They just seem like they should be in mental wards instead. Literally everyone in this film is nuts with the exception of Benton, who's actually fairly winning in her role.

Hospital Massacre will probably be too frustrating a watch for some, but if you turn off your brain and tell yourself it's a surreal art film, you might get more mileage out of it.

Of all the B horror films out there, this one was actually watchable.

Barbi Benton goes to the local hospital to recieve her check up results to turn in to her new insurance provider. Little does she know a pyshcotic killer has switched her test results to keep her pinned inside the hospital.

There, the doctors themselves seem evil and the whole hospital itself is pretty creepy. Slicing and dicing soon occurs and Barbi must fight to stay alive.

The death scenes are pretty cool. Though I thought the scene where he smothers a nurse with a sheet was kind of bizzare, the way he came out holding it running down the hallway.

When the Valentine's Day card he sends to pretty Susan Jeremy is greeted with laughter and derision, young Harold loses the plot and impales Susan's playmate on a hat-stand. Nineteen years later, a now fully grown Susan (played by Playboy playmate Barbi Benton) attends a hospital appointment only to find a still-rather-obsessed Harold waiting there to try and steal her heart once again—only this time, he intends to do it literally with a variety of nasty surgical implements!!

Chock full of ridiculous red-herrings and annoying false scares, and displaying zero originality from start to finish, Boaz Davidson's Hospital Massacre is a derivative piece of slasher garbage that, at times, is so daft that it unintentionally borders on parody.

In the prologue, Susan is seen brandishing a large knife, only to reveal that she is about to cut a cake; later, what looks like blood drips onto Susan's shoe but which turns out to be ketchup; an unscheduled lift stop on a deserted floor results in Susan being startled by men in masks, who are then revealed to be fumigating the level; and a human shape under a sheet turns out to be a mannequin: Hospital Massacre is absolutely littered with such dumb contrivances that really grate on the nerves.

Also serving to irritate are Susan's inability to keep quiet when being stalked by the killer (she drops her lighter, knocks over reports, and clatters metal instruments at the most inopportune moments), the complete absence of any other people when the murderer strikes, the ridiculous manner in which the hospital staff treat their patients (can anyone say 'lawsuit'?), and the score, which mimics not only Harry Manfredini's music from Friday the 13th (which is understandable, I suppose), but also Jerry Goldsmith's choral chanting from The Omen (???!?!).

On the plus side, there's the occasional spot of reasonable gore (including a severed head in a box, an axe in the head and a pointed thingy through the neck), an enjoyably exploitative moment where Miss Benton strips to her panties for an unnecessary all-over examination by a pervy doctor, and one incredible, must-be-seen-to-be-believed scene in which Susan runs into a room full of people covered from head-to-toe in plaster who all proceed to flail their limbs in an uncontrollable manner. Weird.