X-Ray (Hospital Massacre)

This seems to be the case where the lunatics are running the hospital! Barbi once was Hefner's Main Squeeze and in 1981 she was on a bed being examined naked for an uncomfortably long length of time. Nurses and doctors operate with the bedside manner of serial killer sizing up the next victim. And patients just sort of mill around the hospital without a care in the world, and areas of the building almost feel like some sort of dream labyrinth.

I felt that once we're in the hospital it is like this unreal nightmare where everything is off. Procedures, protocols, orders of business, and just the usual hospital machinery that runs in a fashion that makes sense is all askew. For fuck sake Barbi is never checked in, stuck in an elevator, forced to stay when she wants to leave, kept waiting for a long time, looked at intensely and examined by the staff and patients with judgy, quizzical, creepy, and untrustworthy eyes, and even physically restrained.

The lunatic running around, assumed to be the adult version of a psycho kid who hung her child friend on a coat rack, in hospital scrubs with an assortment of tools of the trade, seems to maniacally butcher his way through staff, purposely planting corrupted files in Barbi folder to keep her there.

The system for which this hospital operates could really use an upgrade! Wonderfully deranged in that delightfully 80s way.

Never have I rooted for a woman to escape a damn hospital. Every hospital tool used to help people do right the opposite when the killer gains access. The irony of who the killer is -- the one who acts the most normal of the staff! -- was not lost on me.

This is actually a Valentine's Day movie. Harry only wanted Susan's heart!