William Shatner! In a Banned movie!!! Already this movie has me on side!
Ahhhh, I guess You're right...
Which is just as well, because other than shat (see what I did there), there wasn't much here to get excited about.
We're dealing with a bog standard thriller (albeit one with a slightly higher than normal body count), there's no mystery as to whodunnit - we see his face the first time we see him attack someone (we also see him remove his 'disguise' - a bunch of quasi-tribal facial jewellery that is never mentioned again) and the why-dunnit is hinted at from the beginning and spelled out at the half-way point.
It seems that some woman we never see (except in flashback a couple of times) has gone to jail for attacking her husband and crippling him. Her plea (of self defence) failed - but only because the prosecution had better lawyers. She's up for appeal, and a reporter (Our heroin) has made it her business to get the public on side with the self-defence plea.
The couple's son (Michael Ironside), who got on with his Dad, does not approve of the reporter's attempts to free his mother, and sets about trying to kill her (and anyone else who gets in his way).
In a failed attempt, he wounds her, and she ends up spending most of the film in hospital (hence the title); One scene where the killer did show smarts, is when he went around the hospital cutting drip pipes, and pushing "call nurse" buttons, in order to keep the staff busy while he went back for another crack at his real target.
There's a nurse who gets way to invested in the whole thing (and makes herself a target in the process), and a girl the killer picks up and beats up who decides to make life awkward for him, but I didn't really get invested in any of them.
Oh, and the killer has a Magic TV. How's that? - well, remember I said about the reporter sticking her oar in? when our man watches that as it happens, from his TV... then, when she walks off set, she is told that the footage will never be used as she was biased; so it seems the psycho can watch live feeds of TV recordings never intended for live transmission. Go figure.
Gaping potholes aside, another one with not much to recommend it - but that isn't blood curdlingly awful. But for the gore, this one would probably do well with the "Diagnosis Murder" crowd.
Body Count: 5
Most Memorable Death: actually, none spring to mind...
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