Top Ten Tuesdays

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

[J Harker]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

Top 10 Films with a Medical Theme.

The Body Snatcher (1945)
Halloween II (1981)
Outbreak (1995)
Desperate Measures (1998)
The Revenge of Frankenstein (1958)
Visiting Hours (1982)
Exquisite Tenderness (1995)
Faceless (1987)*
Mary Reilly (1996)
The Lazarus Effect (2015)

I decided to steer clear of asylum set movies as that's a different subject in itself in my opinion. I went with Revenge of Frankenstein as he is actually a medical doctor in that and a lot of the film is set in a hospital / shelter for the needy.

Good call on Halloween II Dem. And The Body Snatcher as well.

[nosferatu42]

Top Ten Medical stuff.

Dead Ringers
Mad Love (1935) with Peter Lorre
Eyes Without A Face
Man With 2 Brains
Frankenstein
Re-Animator
Young Frankenstein
Island Of Lost Souls
Hellbound - HellRaiser 2
Horror Hospital

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[J Harker]

My top ten medical films

The Body Snatcher. Robert Wise. 1945
Karloff, Lugosi, Lewton. Sublime.
Donovans Brain. Felix E.Feist. 1953
Dr.Michael Hfuhruhurrs favourite movie,
I really need to pick up a copy of this, I'm sure there's a dvd available now.
Les Yeux Sans Visage. Georges Franju. 1960.
Mash. Robert Altman. 1970
One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest. Milos Foreman. 1975. I agree with something Dem said about asylum movies potentially being there own topic, but Milos Foremans classic isn't any old hammy horror flick.
Re-Animator. Stuart Gordon. 1985
Medicine Man. John McTiernan. 1992
Mary Shelleys Frankenstein. Kenneth Brannagh. 1994
Ok, so not as good as James Whales masterpiece but it is to my mind an adaptation that emphasises Victors medical schooling. He may have been a mad scientist but he was also a doctor.
Outbreak. Wolfgang Peterson. 1995
Extreme Measures. Michael Apted. 1996

[Justin101]

I've seen surprisingly few films which fit this theme, there are plenty of films with the odd scene in though.

• Dead Ringers (1988)
• Doc Hollywood (1991)
• The Elephant Man (1980)
• Flatliners (1990)
• Good Will Hunting (1997)
• Halloween II (1981)
• A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987)
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
• Re-Animator (1985)
• Shutter Island (2010)

[J Harker]

Originally Posted by Justin101

I've seen surprisingly few films which fit this theme, there are plenty of films with the odd scene in though.

• Dead Ringers (1988)
• Doc Hollywood (1991)
• The Elephant Man (1980)
• Flatliners (1990)
• Good Will Hunting (1997)
• Halloween II (1981)
• A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987)
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
• Re-Animator (1985)
• Shutter Island (2010)

Bloody hell i hadn't even considered The Elephant Man!! And I'd forgotten Shutter Island, one i had in mind. Can see me having a reshuffle before browneye changes topics next Wednesday afteenoon sometime maybe...

[Rik]

Top Ten Medical Film

In the order I think of them:

1) Re-animator
2) Frankenstein
3) American Mary
4) Hellbound: Hellraiser 2
5) Flatliners
6) Hollow Man
7) Halloween II
8) ANOES 3: Dream Warriors
9) Face/Off
10) Jacob's Ladder

[Susan Foreman]

Because I came up with this weeks topic, I suppose I am duty bound to include a list!

My criteria (as always) is to only include titles that I have got. I have also avoided the 'Frankenstein family' (including Frankenhooker, Re-animator etc, altho I would have loved to include Tim Burton's Frankenweenie). I have also omitted films that only feature a character with a medical title (Dr. Strangelove, Dr. Who etc) and films that only have a fleeting moment or single scene set in a hospital

Therefore...

1: An American Werewolf In London - Not only the best modern werewolf film, but also the best chance of seeing Jenny Agutter in a nurse uniform. Add to this, the best 'dream-within-a-dream' sequence, and you get a classic film
2: Tootsie - Set in the fictional world of 'Southwest General'. The strange and ironic thing about this film is... a lot of the ideas about soap operas that were funny when the film was made (1982) have since cropped up in more 'serious' soaps
3: Carry On Matron - There are so many 'Carry On' films that are set within this environment, which one to choose? At the end of the day, Kenneth Cope as Cyrille and the 'bus timetable' sequence make this one of the best
4: Little Shop Of Horrors (1986) - Steve Martin as the dentist and Bill Murray as the patient. Granted, this is a fleeting moment, but the dentist character is used a lot in the movie. He even gets his own song!
5: Johnny Got His Gun - Based on the Metallica song 'One', this anti-war movie is extremely powerful.
6: Coffy - Hey, Pam Grier as a nurse!
7: Pin - Pin is a life-size, anatomically correct medical dummy used by Dr. Linden to teach his children about reproduction and bodily functions. But what if Pin is actually alive, and he tells someone to kill?
8: A Stitch In Time - Norman Pitkin and Mr. Grimsdale in a children's hospital. What could possibly go wrong?
9: X-Ray - Another psycho killer in a hospital!
10: Normal Again - Episode 17 of the 6th series of 'Buffy The Vampire Slayer'. After being infected by a demon's hallucinogenic venom, Buffy believes that her implausible and nightmarish life as vampire slayer has actually been her own elaborate hallucination as a mental patient, catatonic in a hospital for the past six years. The episode plays out as her 'normal' life in the hospital is contrasted with her 'fantasy' life in Sunnydale. Personally, I think this episode should have been the very last one of the entire series, raising the question 'was it all real, or was it a fantasy?', but I suppose some people would have cried foul at this concept, and been angry that they had 'wasted the last 7 years of their lives'!

[Nosferatu@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Susan Foreman

5: Johnny Got His Gun - Based on the Metallica song 'One', this anti-war movie is extremely powerful.

I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic, but I think it's the other way around with the involvement of a novel of the same name by Dalton Trumbo!