Waste of time

An unexpected masterpiece

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

Alright, first there was Turistas (2006), Captifs (2010), The Harvest (1992), Coma (1978), Hospital Massacre (1982) and They Came From Within (1975). Way too many disturbing yet incredibly bad medical movies with the same elements and themes. Well, now here's this rather pathetic movie, Autopsy, with very little, if anything, to offer.The plot is typical of today's generation, a group of badly dressed girls and sleazy guys who talk about nothing but sex and booze end up crashing their car and hitting a guy in the road. Suddenly a very convenient ambulance arrives, taking everyone to a hospital supposedly shut down, where a 50's style nurse and creepy doctor along with goons who look as though they've just broke out of prison are all the staff. At first things seem normal enough... but then all hell breaks loose when the group begins to disappear to meet their horrible demises.So just what makes this film so bad? Well, I'll start with the acting. Not one character in the movie has much as far as a unique personality, in fact they're so generic that it's fake. They act like they just stepped out of a pornographic movie, making sex references, getting extremely drunk at a Marti Gras party in the intro and always swearing. It's to the point where it's very unrealistic and the acting itself is terrible. The special effects were really lame and the plot had too many flaws to make the film creepy.My advice, just watch this if you're bored or if you want to laugh at how pathetic it is. There are better films out there.

1. This film is epic. Autopsy starts off as the usual stereotypical film, college students get drunk, party etc. They are driving, car crashes into something. Ambulance shows up, takes them to an abandoned hospital... Most of the film is just the survivors running around trying to escape the mad 'evil' doctor and the 70's looking nurse. There is a bit of humour when the police show up.. Police get shot - no hero there. Then we get to an amazing twist. *****spoiler alert*****.The evil doctor is killing and using the students body organs, spinal fluid etc to save his wife - awh cute! Then there's a little extra at the end. This film, is probably our favourite film yet - and we have watched a lot. The twist, ending and whole plot was immense. The fact that most of the actors are unknown is even better, as you get to know them better. If you haven't watch this, but are thinking about it.... What are you waiting for?? Get it! :)

I knew this may have been a straight to DVD release, obviously this was confirmed, especially by the fact that critics have not reviewed it or given it a star rating, but it doesn't matter, I watched it and I am giving it an opinion, so that's fine. Basically in the middle of the night, on their way home from the New Orleans Mardi Gras, five friends: Emily (Jessica Lowndes), her boyfriend Bobby (Ross Kohn), Clare (Ashley Schneider), Dmitriy (Arcady Golubovich) and Jude (Ross McCall) crash their car on the State Route 53 in Louisiana, but they and the man they hit are picked up by an ambulance that takes them to Mercy Hospital. Nurse Marian (Jenette Goldstein) tells them all to be patient as they are called one by one to have their injuries looked at, even if they only look minor, and Bobby is seen to be the worst case after he pulls a piece of glass from his chest. As each character is taken to an examination room, Emily becomes concerned for her boyfriend, and with no one looking decides to investigate for herself, and that is when she meets the very suspicious head of the hospital, Dr. David Benway (Robert Patrick). Soon enough the characters realise they are not in a safe environment, and all fall victim to the evil tortures and experiments by the sick staff members, including taking a drug that creates savage hallucinations, smashing a head in until the brain is caved in, and various surgical implements used as torture devices and weapons. Emily eventually knows she is the last one left, and after trying to escape, calling the police and the officer being killed, and finding out the hospital has been closed down for years, she is almost a victim to the vicious pain herself, but she gets away. The big discovery comes when she finds the wife of Dr. Benway, who he said was recovering from terminal cancer, when in fact she is being kept alive by a machine, pumping some kind of chemical liquid, and also she finds Bobby, with all his organs taken out of his body and connected by above tubes and electrodes to run the equipment. Emily ends the lives (in euthanasia) of both Bobby and the Doctor's wife by turning off the machine, and when Jude shows up one more time he sacrifices himself to save the day, by lighting gas creating an explosion, and in the end Emily gets her moment of revenge with her own torturous way. Also starring Michael Bowen as Travis and Robert LaSardo as Scott. Obviously the acting is as good as you can get in a low budget scary movie, Patrick fits the lead villain role perfectly with his stone faced evil character, and the story is simple enough, with plenty of unexpected and inventive blood and gut scares, accompanied by very uncomfortable torture, all in all a pretty alright horror film. Worth watching!

Maybe the worst thing a horror film can do to a fan is bore the hell out of them. But that is exactly what Autopsy did to me and my fellow viewers during a recent screening.Autopsy, an entry in the After Dark Films series, begins with a group of students awaiting an ambulance after a car crash that has left a stranger dead under the vehicle. The students are taken to mercy Hospital which is run a small group of staff headed by Dr. David Benway (Terminator 2's Robert Patrick).Easily separated while awaiting minor treatment, the young stars (which include Jessica Lowndes, Ashley Schneider and Ross Kohn) soon find out that their health and safety is anything but assured while contained within the halls of the hospital.The first half of Autopsy was boring, predictable and lacking in any enjoyment whatsoever. Director Adam Gierasch brought nothing truly original to the screen and a contagious yawn could be heard throughout my screening group.But about half way through the film, it was as if Gierasch finally got it. He went from trying to establish mood and worthwhile characters to just having fun with the genre. There are more than a few wink wink nod nod type scenes in the second half that catapult Autopsy from a boring, meandering mess to a fairly watchable and at times enjoyable horror film. When you reach a fleeing female victim gets punched in the face by a sadistic intern, you know you have it the killerreviews turning point and that things will be more fanciful for the remainder of the film.The gore is definitely there. There is a scene with a naked man spewing his guts onto an ever-fighting female and the scene where we see a male victim with his guts hanging on strings and slings outside of his body was top rate.Autopsy then gets a mild recommendation based solely on the final 40 minutes. Robert Patrick is always a treat to watch and he is in full bad guy mode here (think Dr. Giggles except without the giggles). You won't care which of the young characters live or die or if any of them make it out alive for that matter. Maybe that's what made the second half so much fun. Once you stop thinking it a horror film and enjoy it as a black comedy with blood and body parts, the film takes flight.www.killerreviews.com