(movie) Hospital (2020) – another Asian take on vengeful ghosts

Hospital is a Chinese horror movie directed and written by Chia-Lin Chu. It’s been a while since I have watched any Asian horror movies, so I decided to see this one, since I am a sucker for abandoned haunted hospitals and stories revolving around them. This one is about two women stricken with grief, one lost her husband in a routine operation in that hospital, another one lost her sister who was a nurse there and killed herself by jumping out of the window. They hire an Tao exorcist and his son to take them there to make them speak with the dead to get kind of closure. As things go in such movies, everything goes wrong and then interesting ghost haunted story turns into mixture of mindfuck psychological horror and haunted vengeful ghost story. Everything is done pretty naive, characters are plastic and you can not get into any of them and wish them to make it out. The twist at the end is already seen thousands of times and made it only worse. Ghosts are okay, there are one or two creepy situations that make your skin crawl, but in all, this is one of the not so good Asian horror movies I have watched and now I wish I chose something better, but next time.

4/10

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