X-Ray (1981)
8/10
Quirky and Bizarre Nightmare
14 September 2018
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.
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