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Stars: Ase Wang, Wichan Jarujinda, Kanya Rattapetch, Chidjan Rujiphun, Chon Wachananon, Dollaros Dachapratumwan | Directed by Thodsapol Siriwiwat, Paraphan Laoyont
sick-nursesFrom the makers of On-Bak and Chocolate, comes Sick Nurses, an understated satire on the tired Japanese “ghost” genre featuring a bevy of beautiful nurses in the skimpiest clothing thai law will allow and some of the most outrageous gore this side of a Herschell Gordon Lewis movie.
Sick Nurses has to be one of the strangest, and yet eerily compelling, films to have come out of the Far East in quite some time. Director’s Siriwiwat and Laoyont have constructed a surreal horror film in the style of the original Nightmare on Elm Street, throwing logic and reason out of the window to present a film whose timeline is only fifteen minutes long. The fractured narrative allows the filmmakers to show the events of the film from the perspective of all participants whilst moving the story forward… and what a story. The plot starts out simple – a group of nurses at a well-respected hospital are, alongside the handsome doctor Tah, running a lucrative organ harvesting business. When one of the nurses, Tahwan, discovers that her affair with Tah is in jeopardy thanks to her sister Nook’s tryst with the doc, she flips out and threatens to expose the scam to the authorities. Deciding they have too much to lose, the other nurses murder their colleague and add her corpse to their growing number of victims. However according to legend a spirit has until midnight on the seventh day post death to re-visit her loved ones and sure enough Tahwan appears, taking bloody revenge on her murderers, praying on their individual obsessions and weaknesses – before taking huge leaps in filmmaking logic to encompass a transexual love story and the concept of reincarnation!
Whilst the film starts off slow it builds into a crescendo of violence and gore, which, along with the lurid use of colour, is reminiscent of Dario Argento’s early work in film’s such as Suspiria and Inferno.The deaths in Sick Nurses are both extreme and bizarre, with some truly inventive and twisted use of special effects – the film literally goes for the jugular. Featuring an inordinate amount of severed limbs, gallons of blood, and a truly squirm inducing scene featuring a killer foetus the film skirts the boundaries of the perverse. If it wasn’t for the well-documented strictness of the Thai censors, Sick Nurses could have acheived the pinnacle of the horror genre – a boob and bloodfest – as it is the film manages to play up the sleaze factor minus the nudity, with lingering shots of the sexy nurses in their underwear and a teasing lesbian tryst.
Directors Siriwiwat and Laoyont don’t just aim for the gore fan however. As I said in my opening, the film is a satirical take on films such as Ju-On and Ringu. Whilst those films featured sorrowful spirits that do not take pleasure in their actions, Sick Nurses presents the viewer with a ghost who relishes in her torment, cracking a smile and a model-style pose as she kills her murderers. The film also speaks about morality – each of the nurses has an obsession, in some cases vanity, in others materialistic and all of them freely bitch and moan to and about each other and the spirit uses that against them, often with a cruel irony not usually seen in eastern cinema. Offering a refreshing angle on a tired genre, Sick Nurses is definitely worth tracking down when it hits UK DVD on September 21st courtesy of Revolver Entertainment.
sick-nursesFrom the makers of On-Bak and Chocolate, comes Sick Nurses, an understated satire on the tired Japanese “ghost” genre featuring a bevy of beautiful nurses in the skimpiest clothing thai law will allow and some of the most outrageous gore this side of a Herschell Gordon Lewis movie.
Sick Nurses has to be one of the strangest, and yet eerily compelling, films to have come out of the Far East in quite some time. Director’s Siriwiwat and Laoyont have constructed a surreal horror film in the style of the original Nightmare on Elm Street, throwing logic and reason out of the window to present a film whose timeline is only fifteen minutes long. The fractured narrative allows the filmmakers to show the events of the film from the perspective of all participants whilst moving the story forward… and what a story. The plot starts out simple – a group of nurses at a well-respected hospital are, alongside the handsome doctor Tah, running a lucrative organ harvesting business. When one of the nurses, Tahwan, discovers that her affair with Tah is in jeopardy thanks to her sister Nook’s tryst with the doc, she flips out and threatens to expose the scam to the authorities. Deciding they have too much to lose, the other nurses murder their colleague and add her corpse to their growing number of victims. However according to legend a spirit has until midnight on the seventh day post death to re-visit her loved ones and sure enough Tahwan appears, taking bloody revenge on her murderers, praying on their individual obsessions and weaknesses – before taking huge leaps in filmmaking logic to encompass a transexual love story and the concept of reincarnation!
Whilst the film starts off slow it builds into a crescendo of violence and gore, which, along with the lurid use of colour, is reminiscent of Dario Argento’s early work in film’s such as Suspiria and Inferno.The deaths in Sick Nurses are both extreme and bizarre, with some truly inventive and twisted use of special effects – the film literally goes for the jugular. Featuring an inordinate amount of severed limbs, gallons of blood, and a truly squirm inducing scene featuring a killer foetus the film skirts the boundaries of the perverse. If it wasn’t for the well-documented strictness of the Thai censors, Sick Nurses could have acheived the pinnacle of the horror genre – a boob and bloodfest – as it is the film manages to play up the sleaze factor minus the nudity, with lingering shots of the sexy nurses in their underwear and a teasing lesbian tryst.
Directors Siriwiwat and Laoyont don’t just aim for the gore fan however. As I said in my opening, the film is a satirical take on films such as Ju-On and Ringu. Whilst those films featured sorrowful spirits that do not take pleasure in their actions, Sick Nurses presents the viewer with a ghost who relishes in her torment, cracking a smile and a model-style pose as she kills her murderers. The film also speaks about morality – each of the nurses has an obsession, in some cases vanity, in others materialistic and all of them freely bitch and moan to and about each other and the spirit uses that against them, often with a cruel irony not usually seen in eastern cinema. Offering a refreshing angle on a tired genre, Sick Nurses is definitely worth tracking down when it hits UK DVD on September 21st courtesy of Revolver Entertainment.
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