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Entry tags:	autopsy, bad-ass fire extinguisher fu, blundering into mysterious movies on tv, jessica lowndes, robert patrick

Rambling updates…

Well, some film related miscellania here:

 

A COUPLE HORROR FILMS I TRIPPED OVER WHILE CHANNEL SURFING

About a month ago I was flipping through channels on TV and I came across a movie already playing on the SyFy channel.

A young, harried looking woman is in a hospital hallway. She’s talking to a policeman who’s in a yellow raincoat and there’s an orderly there as well. Otherwise the hallway is empty of any other people. I’ve come in the middle of the conversation, and apparently, sinister dealings are going on in this hospital and this woman is trying to convince the policeman of it so he can investigate, but apparently he’s not buying it. From his silence and expression he seems to be thinking this woman is in the hospital because she’s nuts.

The orderly ain’t saying much and apparently he’s either in on the sinister doings or he’s just clueless and thinks she’s raving, because he exchanges looks with the cop, and the cop starts to make like he’s getting ready to leave and he says something noncommittal to the woman—he definitely thinks she’s nutty. I’m thinking the orderly is part of the sinister doings.

But she catches the exchange of looks between the two and she gets more frantic and starts yelling that she’s not crazy, she did see something and—

Suddenly, the elevator door opens and another orderly casually wanders into the hallway right by the other three and he happens to be wheeling a cart filled with… severed human feet and other body parts, I think.

The three look at this second orderly. Then they look at the cart. Then back to staring at the orderly again. And there’s an awkward silence as we look at the policeman and he’s obviously thinking…

And then, just as he’s about to say something—HE GETS STABBED FROM BEHIND by the first orderly.

After killing the cop, the orderly starts yelling at the second orderly, and he also grabs the girl who’s totally freaking out after seeing the cop get killed before her eyes.

Then Robert Patrick wanders by, all done up as a doctor/surgeon, and he barks out an order to bring the girl to this room.

 

In the room, they strap the girl down to a table and Dr. Robert Patrick proceeds to, well, drill into the poor young woman head. He’s being assisted by a female nurse, and the drill he’s using is large but also, non-electric. It’s like a foot and a half long hand drill.

The doc puts the fat bit into the top of the girl’s head, just plops it into her hair and starts turning. The girl hasn’t been anesthetized, and she starts screaming. But, her hair’s getting all caught up in the thick drill bit and it’s difficult for the Doc to continue.

After two attempts at this, with the girl’s head starting to bleed, Dr. Robert Patrick gives up, extremely annoyed, and yells at the nurse that he’ll be back when they get an ELECTRIC drill. He storms off.

The nurse leaves also, yelling at the orderly.

The girl is left with the orderly and he decides to have some fun with her.

Like beating her up. Punching her hard in the stomach.

She’s attached to the table by her wrists and ankles via Velcro straps.

After being punched several times and particularly in the stomach, she suddenly pukes up some food onto her chest. The orderly freaks, knowing he overdid it, and he tries to address the issue, to make sure she doesn’t choke.

Meanwhile, while he’s focused on other things, she frantically wrestles away at her restraining straps and manages to wiggle one of her hands out.

She quickly smacks the guy in the head with her one free hand and he goes flying into a light stand. While he tries to recover, she quickly gets herself loose and then grabs a fire extinguisher and proceeds to put the off-balance dude out of commission by going all sick on his face with the butt-end of the extinguisher. She smacks him hard in the face and knocks him to the floor. While he’s down, she refuses to let up on him and she brutally bludgeons his face again and again with the heavy metal extinguisher until his teeth and face are all a bloody pulp. “You go, girl!” indeed!

 

The movie goes on, but on the strength of those two scenes, I wanted to find out what this movie was and rent it.

Turns out it was AUTOPSY, and the feisty actress was Jessica Lowndes, who I guess is in the new 90210 series as well.

It was part of the 8 FILMS TO DIE FOR series.