Review of Sick Nurses

Sick Nurses (2007)
4/10
Poor story and non-engaging characters, but plenty of gore.
25 October 2013
Warning: Spoilers
At Apai Dharma Hospital, Nurse Tawan thinks Dr Taa might marry her, but he proves to be interested in her sister, Nurse Nook. The jealously arising plus other irritations causes Tawan to threaten the other nurses and Dr Taa with exposure of their lucrative body selling. Criminals seldom have much sense of humor; the others kill Tawan. The prepare Tawan's body for delivery to the usual body seller, but no one comes to collect. Odd.

So, how did we get there, and what were the consequences of one more murder?

Nurse Aeh asks how long has it been since they killed Tawan? This was the seventh day. Aeh adds that the acts from the dead spirits happen on the seventh day. She countdown to midnight ensues. Aeh thinks Nook is the target, since she took Taa away from Tawan. Another nurse thinks it's Aeh, since Aeh had her own baggage.

The nurses have a lot of free time, money, cosmetics, and high calorie junk food on their hands. As the clock ticks down to midnight, the various nurses encounter the ghost.

Nook gets a positive on her pregnancy test. She emerges from the toilet to see the lesbian twins (Orn and Am) with their forearms somehow stuck to a low table. Nook edges past to get away from this scene. Aeh runs past her; Nook tries to follow.

The ghost pursues the nurses relentlessly, and seems always to have the upper hand.

Does anyone come out of this OK? Do we care?

------Scores-------

Cinematography: 4/10 Yikes, saw it on Netflix, streamed in standard, and looks more like VHS. The aspect ratio I observed was 1.33 which looks bad to start with.

Sound: 10/10 A bit florid at times, but much more effective than the visuals, the acting, or the screenplay.

Acting: 5/10 Varies, but most of it is mediocre, some of it downright wooden.

Screenplay: 2/10 The fracturing of the time lines of the nurses is rather severe, and none of the time lines is all that interesting. Why not? This is because I never saw any reason to care about any of the characters to begin with. They are all black market organ thieves, after all. Following each one to their own particular grisly death was more ho-hum than anything else.

----PS-----

Two stars of five. The two stars are for the last three minutes before the credits, where the doctor's role in all this foulness is revealed, and for the wonderful score during the credits.
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