Autopsy Movie
Storyline
TAGLINES PLOT SUMMARY
A young woman tries to find her injured boyfriend in a bizzare and dangerous hospital.
| Ashley Schneider | Clare |
| Eric F. Adams | Officer Mike Jacobs |
| Michael Bowen | Travis |
| Arcadiy Golubovich | Andrey |
| Ross Kohn | Bobby |
| Ross McCall | Jude |
| Ryan O'Quinn | Zombie Voices |
| Kevin M. White | Disfigured Man |
| Jenette Goldstein | Nurse Marian |
| Jessica Lowndes | Emily |
| Janine Venable | Lisette |
| Adam Gierasch |
5.50 out of 10 (100 votes)
Visitor Reviews
A Nutshell Review: Autopsy
posted on 18 Aug 2009The fastest way to induce an audience's nausea, is perhaps to throw up plenty of thick crimson blood and splatter loads of internal organs on screen, and there's just something about having a ready made premise in hospital mortuaries where there are dead bodies ready to be exploited for some horror and gore, playing into the consensus that these places are just those that you wouldn't want to linger for a second longer.Autopsy here didn't refer to any post-mortem done on bodies to discover death, but rather plays out like a typical formulaic horror film of recent times where the human bodies go through extreme, mindless torture which torture porn flicks have been trying very best to go one up against one another by upping the ante, either by body count, death by strange tools, or some insanely crafted violent sequences. A look at films such as Body #18, Pathology, Unrest and even Saw IV would give you an idea of what you're in for, should you opt to give this film a shot.Told in relatively low budget terms, it centers around a group of teenagers, all drunk and high on dope, getting into a car crash, and checking themselves voluntarily into Mercy Hospital, run by two unconventional looking ambulance drivers / helpers, the receptionist Nurse Marian (Jenette Goldstein) and Dr. David Benway (Robert Patrick). I suppose if one's not drunk, a hospital run by a crew of four would have raised eyebrows, but to some traumatized teens, it seemed like a godsend being able to be medically looked at before they get on their way.Only for things to go bump, with scenes crafted with little logic and flow, plenty of repetitiveness (climbing up and down the same stairwell for example) and cheap tricks out to elicit cheap scares. While you'd appreciate what writer-director Adam Gierasch is trying to get at, especially with the build up toward the end under lead protagonist Emily (Jessica Lowndes), what was ultimately a let down was the plot loopholes that you could pilot a 747 through, poor, choppy pacing, and plenty of throwaway, useless characters in hospital patients just shown on screen to boast what good make up artists they have.And the make up and art department deserve some credit in coming up with some really mind-numbing, gory looking wounds, parts, decapitations etc, in order to keep you somewhat engaged in looking out for the next big gory scene. While you don't expect Oscar winning performances, I can't help but chuckle at some very wooden, amateurish acting amongst the cast, and even Robert Patrick seemed like he's parodying his Terminator role here, being deadpan in expression, and persistently hard to shake and get rid of.Autopsy is a poor man's cousin of flicks like Hostel, where things just aren't quite they seem and victims get compartmentalized in some divide and conquer strategy. In most cases, you're going to laugh at the scenes for being implausible, or clumsily executed, so while I won't recommend this film as a horror flick, I definitely would do so as a comedy of errors, and how it contains some of the pitfalls that one should consciously try to avoid when making a horror film.
Awesome Horror Stuff, Must See
posted on 09 Jun 2009I was not expecting much from this movie.. this movie turned out to be far far better then what I thought it would be.This is a must see for every horror fan. I think this movie is under rated cause if they would have hired well known stars this movie would have rocked on box office.All though acting is great from all stars. Story is cool and many new things to see.Well done..This is from a true horror fan..Thanks
Decent slasher, but nothing special.
posted on 22 May 2009A night of partying in town turns deadly for a group of five friends, when they get into a car accident and hit a man in the middle of the road. It turns out the man is a patient at the local hospital, as an ambulance soon arrives on the scene and takes the friends and the patient there for a medical check-up. It soon appears, however, that the staff at the hospital have more sinister plans for the friends.'Autopsy' is a decent effort at a slasher movie, but what lets the film down is most definitely the poor character development, a TV-movie feel (sometimes), plot inconsistencies and, at times, weak writing. Several of the characters, particularly the lead's boyfriend, the token Russian dude and the female friend, have barely any screen time and character development, which was a let-down. This movie definitely needed some more character development for those characters, and would have made the movie better. I also felt the worst actor of the film was Ross MaCall (Jennifer Love Hewitt's ex)...accent slip-ups, boring character and I don't think he fit in with the group of friends, as they all look a lot younger than him.There were a few plot holes, for instance: The lead girl mentioning her boyfriends' parents are on vacation in Europe, then several scenes later it's said his parents are at home waiting for them to get back. The lead girl taking a phone from the killer, then hiding in a room the next scene which has a phone in it. Psychotic killers managing to run a public hospital and get away with killing hundreds. People being alive after having all of their organs taken out/being smashed in the skull repeatedly...some of the scenes you have to suspend your disbelief and others are just general plot holes that needed fixing in the script.Onto the positives, the movie has it's moments and delivers some great gore sequences, which I was very impressed with (particarly the 'hanging organs' scene). Jessica Lowndes (90210, Molly Hartley) does a great job as the lead, and it was great seeing Jenette and Robert reunited since 'Terminator 2' and playing psychotic killers (nice cat fight with Jessica and Jenette at the end!). Michael Bowen and Robert LaSardo (Nip Tuck) did well also, and the hospital setting for the film was cool. I really liked the opening credits sequence also, and Adam Gierasch delivers a decent script and good directing, which I hope he delivers on the upcoming 'Night of The Demons' remake.'Autopsy' has a cool location and lots of great gore, as well as some decent deaths and good acting, and it entertains for what it's worth. I just wish the movie had more character development and less plot holes, as it would have been much better than what it was - decent. It's a decent effort for a slasher, and it has it's moments, but it's nothing too great. It is, however, one of the better horror-fest titles and if you are looking for a 90 minute nothing-new-but-entertains kinda slasher with lots of bloodshed...you should enjoy it!5/10
A decent effort, with good and bad points
posted on 30 Apr 2009I can't say I had much hope for this one and I must confess I mainly watched it thinking it might be amusingly bad. More fool me, for this is in many respects quite a gnarly film. The duo behind it, Adam Gierasch and Jace Anderson had previously worked on scripts for movies which didn't impress me much, but in the directors chair, Gierasch does very well, keeping a dark, edgy mood for much of the first half of the film and letting things go nuts in the latter. The story sees some young adults who have a road accident and land up in a freaky hospital, where as one might expect, things go very wrong. For b picture veteran Robert Patrick plays the head doctor and Jenette Goldstein is the head nurse, and anyone familiar with the former from such roles as T1000 in Terminator 2 or the latter as Diamondback from the great Near Dark can tell that this ain't no ordinary hospital. Without going into details, things get very nasty. There's grue and some sinister sights right from the get go, enhanced by the creepy setting and some Argento style lighting and direction tricks. Then things get pretty savage and there are some good tense moments as well as some pretty mean goings on. In theory this could have been really mighty but it's held back by the writing and characterisation. None of the good characters are very fleshed out or sympathetic beyond their plight, so whilst the actors do their best its hard to care about them. Plus the bad characters are caricatured and bar Jenette Goldstein's convincingly bossy, imperious nurse not too interesting. Robert Patrick's doctor could have been a great mad scientist (named Dr Benway in a cool Naked Lunch reference) but while his motive is clear, its never explained why the specific things he does will help him achieve his goal. Hence a lot of the time it seems like the gore scenes have no point beyond shocking the audience and this gets kinda obnoxious. Also, the tone wavers between sheer grimness and sick humour but the mixture is too much in favor of the grim for the humour to leave more than a bad taste and work against the overall effectiveness of the film. There are some funny lines but they don't work with the mean spiritedness. These issues come to the fore in the second half, which largely abandons the earlier chills in favor of going for brutality and by the end much of the entertainment value has seeped away. I don't have a total downer on this film, since it is impressively nasty, with ace gore effects and it is on the whole well directed. I'd recommend it to gore hounds and to an extent to fans of the aforementioned genre stars. Its as gruesome as any of the recent crop of Hostel/Saw type titles but I craved better characters and a more developed story, especially since the story and setting had tons of potential. Still, don't let me put you off, it went down a treat at the screening I saw so watch it if it seems like your kind of thing.
Strange Movie
posted on 26 Apr 2009"Autopsy" is a really strange movie that takes pretty obvious elements from other movies but still manages to have some identify. The movie starts with some bad clichés, like a car full of kids having a crash and standing around the scene like in "I know what you did last summer", but then the movie turns and they get taken to a creepy hospital with some strange docs and nurses where they get counted down in a "Crazy doc needs living patients in sick experiments to keep is beloved wife alive" plot. The movie is carried from the strange suspense of an abandoned hospital with crazy lit endless floors (the visuals are pretty different from your average horror/slasher movie) and the crazy hospital staff that mixes utter weirdness with black humor and some rather disturbing elements. Its often hard to tell if "Autopsy" takes itself serious because it stumbles from comedic strangeness to extreme violence and grossness in a second. Scenes like the head bashing remind of Irreversible in their rawness and there was really times I wonder "WTF was that supposed to mean" up to the strange ending. To keep it short... "Autopsy" has many things going for it in the shock and visual department as well in strange characters. Problem is that these elements appear very disjointed in the plot and are pretty much leading nowhere. The movie is often described as a comedy which made me expect something like "Brain Dead" but where "Braindead" clearly doesn't take itself serious "Autopsy" comes across dead serious more often than it makes you smile (and you won't smile if your humor is not pitch-black, believe me), so don't expect a comedy here.
One of the best horror movies I've seen recently...
posted on 24 Apr 2009OK, so to be honest with you I nearly wet my pants last night when I saw this movie. Autopsy is a very creepy and pretty bloody. It's strange and it's shocking. The scientific element brings in some extra interesting moments. The whole idea of the mad, but in a way genius scientist, trying to treat cancer (well in a quite unusual way, but still :) was very impressive. To keep it short - spectacular special effects, gave a pretty real impression, however gore scenes were a bit too much for me, script was nice, the characters need a bit more personality because they were pretty stiff and unnatural in a way. Anyway very decent movie! 8/10
Bland and disappointing
posted on 27 Mar 2009For some reason I was really looking forward to this movie - the description, the poster, something just made it good. And I may be a bit harsh because I felt let down. It had some good parts, and gore if you like that.The plot, pretty basic, reminded me of Night of the Dead: Leben Tod for the most part. It is pretty straight-forward and predictable, and I think about 3 good jump scenes. I was worried at first with the Mardi Gras footage that it was going to be another "handheld" style, but that was just for the credits thankfully.A couple of rewrites could have made this work a lot better. The main problem is you really don't care. You don't care about the kids, you don't care why the bad guys are doing anything - there is just nothing. Robert Patrick's Doctor could have had some real depth to him if they tried. The nurse is so stereotypical it's not worth it. The lead actress did deliver a good scene, but that was an exception to the script.All in all, it had some memorable moments for those into the Saw/Hostel style gore, but mostly it was forgettable.
First one
posted on 21 Mar 2009Even if this begins like another "I know what you did..." Clone, it is far superior than that. And for the first time director Adam Gierasch (who's better known for his script-writing talent), this was more than a decent effort. He assembled a beautiful and talented cast and made the most of the premise.This being a horror movie, it's not afraid to go places and show pretty explicit violence and gore (effects). Of course, if you are looking for a psychological horror movie, than this isn't the one to watch. There are a few flaws in the (light) story, but some nice ideas and good staging and lighting make up for those. I also liked the fact, that it had a few light/funny moments. So it's not straight slashing all the time ... Which reminds me, that I have to watch "Mother of Tears", written by Mr. Adam G. ... it might actually be a good movie by Argento ...
one of the better of the "8 films to snooze to"
posted on 22 Jan 2009A group of friends coming back from Mardi Gras in New Orleans suffer through a car accident on route 53. An ambulance shows up and takes them all to Mercy Hospital (which is anything but) where they meet the unorthodox doctor Benway (Robert Patrick, 'the Unit & T2), a nurse with a terrible bedside manner (Jenette Goldstein, Near Dark & also T2) and two orderlies who do most of the grislier work.This slasher film, while much better then the only previous '8 films to Die For' movies (the abysmal "the Broken") was not without it's own problems. The film moves at a steady clip when it gets going and some of the gore is impressive. But it's also quite predictable, has a clichéd storyline and under-developed characters. The actors all did a fairly good job, yet I didn't really care about any of them. I will concede that it's better than the previous films that Gierash & Anderson have worked on, although they've been (partly) responsible for Mother of Tears, Toolbox Murders, & Mortuary. So the fact that it's better is no mean feat.My Grade: CLionsgate DVD Extras: Audio commentary with Adam Gierash, Even Katz, Jace Anderson, Ross McCall and Jessica Horowitz; Behind the scenes of the operating room featurette (20 minutes); Miss Horrorfest Web-isodes (running 58 lame minutes in total); an alternative ending; a combo trailer for the 8 films to die for 3; and trailers for "A Haunting in Connecticut", "Crank 2", "Punisher: War Zone", "the Transporter 3", "Weapons", "Midnight Meat Train", & "Saw 5"
A gory, though predictable, hospital slasher
posted on 10 Jan 2009After a brutal car accident takes the life of a runaway surgery patient, a group of friends on their way back from Mardi Gras are taken to the ironically named Mercy Hospital to treat their injuries. When Emily (Jessica Lowndes of '90210') goes searching the near-empty hospital for her boyfriend Bobby (Ross Kohn), she begins to discover some sinister secrets that will threaten the lives of her and her friends.For last year's After Dark Horrorfest, I started out with the abysmal 'Nightmare Man' (*shudder*), so it wasn't very difficult to start this year's collection out better. I decided to go alphabetically so 'Autopsy' came first for me. Luckily, 'Autopsy' fits right in with the majority of the other 8 Films to Die For of years past: Nothing new, special, or overly shocking, but still pretty entertaining. On the technical side, first-time director Adam Gierarsch manages to utilize the creepy hospital well, though he should've taken some more control over the editing as the MTV-style fast cuts by Andrew Cohen were annoying and took out a lot of the suspenseful mood that was created. The acting is adequate from a collection of mostly newbies and Robert Patrick ('Terminator 2'), who isn't in the film nearly enough. There's some good gross-out gore, which is something most horror fans have been waiting for from the After Dark films since the beginning and have only rarely received. The script, penned by veteran team Adam Gierasch and Jace Anderson ('Mother of Tears,' 'The Toolbox Murders') with E.L. Katz, was okay. It flowed well and its regular bits of humour made for an enjoyable watch, but it was transparently predictable from the start and loses points in that. Overall, the film's nothing great, but in the ranks of the After Dark Horrorfest, it fits well. Fans of films like 'Madhouse' and 'Unrest' will especially enjoy this one.Final Verdict: 6.5/10 -AP3-
Autopsy
posted on 13 Nov 2008Modern slasher spin on the Mad Scientist genre stars Robert Patrick as a psychotic doctor keeping his terminally ill wife alive by using the harvested organs and spinal fluid of victims, brought to him fresh by two ex-cons posing as paramedics. A motley group of college drop-outs, having just enjoyed a raucous time of partying at Mardi gras, are heading home when they suffer a car wreck which provides Patrick's diabolical Dr. David Benway a new supply of fresh meat. Jessica Lowndes is Emily, the established "final girl" who seeks out her boyfriend Bobby(Ross Kohn)when he is taken away by Benway's goons, Travis(Michael Bowen)and Scott(Robert LaSardo)supposedly to get attention to his severe rib injury(..a piece of glass was embedded into his skin, almost causing a lacerated lung). Meanwhile, Emily's other friends, Clare(Ashley Schneider), Jude(Ross McCall), and Andrey(Acradiy Golubovich)are each sent to a room by Nurse Marian(..James Cameron regular, Jenette Goldstein), not knowing that instead of receiving a check-up, they were bound for certain grisly death.Writer-director Adam Gierasch(..who cut his teeth authoring screenplays for Tobe Hooper)provides quite a colorful, glossy look thanks to his superb cinematographer, Anthony B Richmond, and the setting compliments the blood shed and grue nicely. Make no mistake about it, this is a gore film, first and foremost, and the rules of the slasher formula are in full effect. The screenplay finds multiple opportunities to rescue Emily from certain harm while her friends never have a prayer. Most of the characters, except some modest exposition for Emily and Benway, aren't incredibly developed, and the film pretty much features our heroine pursuing her beloved Bobby never knowing which brute is around the next corner. We also bare witness to the sadistic activities of Travis and Scott, as they clean up the messes once Benway is finished with his victims. As far as the graphic violence, gorehounds will not disappointed..director Gierasch(..whose screenplays for Hooper often feature extremely unpleasant ends to characters killed off)doesn't shy away from the fact that he's setting out to shock the audience with gratuitous ultra-violence. One scene has poor Clare pinned down by a patient whose wounds aren't sown, his body parts splashing in her face as she struggles to break free. One poor soul is alive, under anesthetic, as his stomach's being removed! And a cleaver is used to lop off an arm. Travis, in particular, loves torturing victims(..how he slams a cleaver into the back of a live victim after punching her in the face, not to mention a very nasty scene where he pokes his finger into the tiny drilled hole of a victim's head display his penchant for embellishing the work of himself and colleagues)and Scott introduces Jude to a very hallucinogenic drug, locks him in a room, and watches as he falls prey to the effects. Scott is assigned the role of disposing of the body parts no longer needed, sanding off the finger prints. Benway's always operating without emotion, coldly detached from the suffering and pain of others, only concerned with his wife. How Emily fights back against those who need her silenced follows the pattern of slashers, she finds ways to save herself(..or is saved by circumstances like the drill which doesn't cut into her skull like Benway desires, and a friend willing to sacrifice himself by lighting nitrous gas)by using the tools around her..she gets a chance to really upend one of her attackers by stabbing him in the kneecap with a knife, scissors into his chest, before smashing his face in with an oxygen tank! The ending(..where we see Bobby's condition and how he's being used to "service" Benway's wife)is quite disturbing, and how Emily confronts the one responsible for all the death that has taken place certainly ends on a vicious note(..although, as Gierasch's written screenplays often do, the killer isn't so easy to eliminate). The alternate ending(..where Emily's fate is different thanks to Benway's wife)is even more chilling than Gierasch's preferred choice. Fans of "hospital horror" might really enjoy AUTOPSY, although it rarely rises above the routine.
gory, but devoid of atmosphere or suspense
posted on 07 Nov 2008First off, we have a bunch of twenty-somethings at Mardi Gras, getting loaded, and then, for some reason (being loaded, maybe?) they have an accident and crash into a tree. Apparently they were also so loaded that they didn't notice a body under their car, a man, still alive, who has escaped from a local hospital, and moments later, an ambulance with two orderlies that were looking for the guy happens by conveniently. Since the kids are rather banged up, they're also taken into the hospital.A rather strange place, this hospital, and according to the duty nurse, they're running on a skeleton crew since Katrina...which was HOW many years ago at this point in time? One by one, the young folk are taken to see the doctor (or wander off), only to mysteriously not come back. Suspicious? Well, sure, I guess.The kindly doctor, as played by Robert Patrick, which should have been a bad sign to anyone, apparently is dedicating himself mostly to research to keep his wife alive. What's wrong with his wife? Hmm, we don't know...The two orderlies are rather scummy types, and there's lots of dirty deeds and body parts strewn everywhere as they assist the doctor in his research.Of course, one young woman figures out something is NOT RIGHT, and tries to fight back & call for help, but of course, she's overpowered, and so is the sheriff's deputy that comes to call.Nearly-abandoned hospitals have rarely been so lacking in creepiness as this one is, and while this story has plenty of blood, guts, and general nastiness, it has absolutely ZERO atmosphere at all, and is pretty well "paint by the numbers" stuff. It has a lot of the makings of a decent film, but they just lie there, not doing much. Gore does not a great movie make. It needs some brains (that is, intelligence, not more strewn organs) to go along with it, and this doesn't have it. A waste. 2 out of 10.
A relatively good horror flick
posted on 14 Oct 2008This is a movie with good gore, a good plot, good acting, and a good ending. The only thing bad about it is the ending was sorta predictable in my mind. There were parts that were unbelievable. But that's to be expected with the horror genre. Robert Patrick plays a good villain, could be better but overall good. Jessica Lowndes was pretty good as the leader of the movie but again could be better. Robert LaSardo was definitely the best actor in the movie. I do not have a single complaint with his part in the movie. Jennette Goldstein would be a creepy nurse in real life but it seemed that in the movie she was overacting just a little. All that being said it was a good (not great) Horror Flick.
If i could give 0 stars...
posted on 12 Oct 2008For someone to give this film 10 stars is wrong. To give this film 1 star is equally as bad, but they wouldn't let me give 0.I genuinely felt everything about this film was either cheap, badly acted and/or extremely stereotypical. The 'gore' scenes were a disaster (may I note having NOTHING on such major gore films as Saw), the ending extremely predictable and tacky and it left me feeling like I'd lost all faith in good, current horror films. My biggest disappointment was in Ross McCall. I thought he was a wonderful actor in Band Of Brothers and his performance was terrific. To see him in this was a real let down.Don't watch this film - I don't know why I did.
Gross, Boring, String of clichés
posted on 04 Oct 2008This movie is getting a 2/10 just because the lead is nice looking. What to say about this movie... -It's not a real serious, or truly terrifying movie -It's not a funny, enjoyable B-movie either. -It is a string of innocuous, retarded, and text-book cliché scenes we've all seen a thousand times. The characters are so stupid you don't even care about them. -The lead walks around with vomit on her chest and tank-top for the latter quarter of the movie. -This was the first time I felt bad for the actors who had to stand and participate in these scenes, they were actually pretty good.
Tortureporn is probably healthy for your mind..
posted on 26 Sep 2008Why is it that more and more horror movies contain so much violence that is completely unnecessary to the story, do people really want to see such crap? I wish horror movies would be more like the old ones. More focus on the story and less on the actual violence. I don't mind seeing gruesome scenes of violence, but it has to be necessary to the story. Watch this movie if you want to fill your mind with pointless scenes of violence. It's just like a bad soft-core porn movie with no story, horrible acting, but with a tit or two to make it worth the viewers while. I'm a pacifist, but this movie almost made me want to apply some old fashion whoop ass on the director ;).
Autospy revealed major plot holes!
posted on 08 Sep 2008Are you kidding? I like horror movies and this one is probably one of the worst I've ever seen. Robert Patrick et Robert Lasardo are good actors and cult for me (Robert Patrick as the T1000 and Robert Lasardo as Escobar Gallardo in the series Nip Tuck), the cast was probably OK, but there is a complete lack of coherence in the script. It looks like a bad TV movie.We can clearly see that all the cast is lost as they don't really act well. even Robert Patrick is desperately static and doesn't seem to enjoy playing his part.There are major plot holes every five minutes. For example, Emily (played by Jessica Lowndes) got a hole in the head, managed to escape from the scrub, and we won't told about that ever. she doesn't seem to feel pain when she runs nowhere in the hospital. who cares? Dr. David Benway (Robert Patrick) talks about patients as host. For what. You'll never know.The cop comes to check the hospital, theoretically closed 3 years ago, but it doesn't bother him. Emily lets the nurse lock her in a room, we can hear the sound of the lock, and after that she's trying to open that door, and looks surprised. Well we're not!All these people are completely dumb, it's a classic in horror movies but honestly, don't tell me it's a must see...
A bloody ride of hospital mayhem!
posted on 04 Sep 2008A group of college students accidentally hit a pedestrian dressed in a hospital gown on a dark lonely stretch of country back road, soon an ambulance arrives & whisks everyone off to a nearby hospital that is oddly quiet, no patients & no visitors as they can see. As time goes on, the kids discover that while many may walk or be ushered into the hospital alive, they don't walk out that way as one by one they are picked off by a homicidal doctor & his crew of maniacs that love the sight of blood & human organs...AUTOPSY is a super gory ode to the old school horror films that just don't get made to much these days, in a world full of awful remakes & PG-13 teenybopper horror films, AUTOPSY is a nice change of pace. The film also has two assets that separate it & make it better than many Hollywood productions, acting & directing, with each character adding that something special to their roles to make them believable. The kills are good & bloody (don't see this on a full stomach!) & there's much suspense as there is chills. Highly recommended for horror fans, it's not going to be considered the greatest horror film ever made or the scariest, but it doesn't pretend to be, you can see that everyone had their heart set into the project & gave there all, which should be a lesson to greedy studio heads in the near future before they tackle any project for the purpose of making lots of money with no care whatsoever to the production & how it turns out, but I'm not holding my breath..*** stars
High on gore, pretty weak on the script and acting at places
posted on 20 Aug 2009The movie indeed delivered more than it promised but i was not very impressed, except for the gore. Even with a pretty weak story line and some pretty bad acting, the movie still had some solid tense moments.There are some gross inaccuracies in the portrayal which steal much of the charm of the movie. During the lumbar puncture, the doctor withdraws way too much CSF, that could cause brain stem herniation and instant death. Over that, the color of the CSF if clear and not bright yellow shown in the movie. For the sake of building up suspense, the hospital has been shown to be completely deserted and still the guys in the movie don't grow suspicious over it. I was really surprised at the callousness of the police officer following the 911 call to he hospital... he seemed to be in a terrible haste to go! the concept of the organs being suspended out of the body and acting as a life support system for another person is truly astonishing except that it is outright impossible the way it was portrayed in the movie! Other than gross medical inaccuracies, there are moments of extremely poor acting and direction.On the whole, i would give the movie 5/10 for the gore factor. Other than that, its a pretty much copy-book style movie.