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Theme: Medical Horrors

The Ambulance (1990)

8th April 199917th August 2019

Rating: ★★

Mysterious Ambulance/Sinister Medical Experiments

Director: Larry Cohen
Actors: Eric Roberts, James Earl Jones, Megan Gallagher, Red Buttons, …
Category: Science Fiction

American Mary (2012)

22nd February 201321st October 2019

Rating: ★★★½

Underground World of Surgical Body Modification

Director: Jen Soska, Sylvia Soska
Actors: Katharine Isabelle, Antonio Cupo, Tristan Risk, David Lovgren, …
Category: Horror

Anatomie 2 (2003)

8th October 200521st August 2019

Rating: ★★

Illicit Medical Experiments

Director: Stefan Ruzowitzky
Actors: Barnaby Metschurat, Herbert Knaup, Heike Makatsch, Rosie Alvarez, …
Category: Horror

Anatomie (2000)

3rd June 200521st August 2019

Rating: ★★★★

Illicit Medical Experiments

Director: Stefan Ruzowitzky
Actors: Franka Potenta, Anna Loos, Benno Fürmann, Sebastian Blomberg, …
Category: Horror

Antiviral (2012)

5th October 20126th September 2019

Rating: ★★★★

Future World of Celebrity Viruses

Director: Brandon Cronenberg
Actors: Caleb Landry Jones, Sarah Gadon, Malcolm McDowell, Joe Pingue, …
Category: Science Fiction

The Assignment (2016)

21st May 201722nd September 2019

Rating: ★★

Hitman Seeks Revenge After Enforced Gender Reassignment Surgery

Director: Walter Hill
Actors: Michelle Rodriguez, Sigourney Weaver, Tony Shalhoub, Anthony LaPaglia, …
Category: Horror

Autopsy (2008)

16th April 20173rd November 2019

Rating: ★★

Hospital of Horrors

Director: Adam Gierasch
Actors: Jessica Lowndes, Robert Patrick, Jenette Goldstein, Robert LaSardo, …
Category: Horror

The Awful Dr Orloff (1962)

3rd July 200018th October 2019

Rating: ★

Killer Surgeon

Director: Jess Franco
Actors: Howard Vernon, Conrad Sanmartin, Diana Lorys, Riccardo Valle, …
Category: Horror

Beyond Forgiveness (1994)

14th August 200413th November 2019

Rating: ★★

Action/Organ Harvesting

Director: Bob Misiorowski
Actors: Thomas Ian Griffith, Rutger Hauer, John Rhys-Davies
Category: Horror

Blood of the Vampire (1958)

9th November 201216th July 2019

Rating: ★★★

Mad Prison Doctor/Medical Vampire

Director: Henry Cass
Actors: Donald Wolfit, Vincent Ball, Barbara Shelley, Victor Maddern, …
Category: Horror

Body Parts (1991)

11th September 200830th August 2018

Rating: ★★

Possessed Transplant Limb

Director: Eric Red
Actors: Jeff Fahey, Kim Delaney, Brad Dourif, Lindsay Duncan, …
Category: Horror

The Body Snatcher (1945)

3rd March 200025th April 2019

Rating: ★★★★

Grave Robbers

Director: Robert Wise
Actors: Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Henry Daniell, Russell Wade, …
Category: Horror

Boxing Helena (1993)

26th January 200021st November 2018

Rating: ★★★

Sexual Obsession and Amputation

Director: Jennifer Lynch
Actors: Julian Sands, Sherilyn Fenn, Betsy Clark, Art Garfunkel, …
Category: Horror

The Brain That Wouldn’t Die (1962)

9th June 20006th February 2019

Rating: ★★★

Decapitated Head/Mad Scientist

Director: Joseph Green
Actors: Herb Evers, Virginia Leith, Leslie Daniel, Adele Lamont, …
Category: Horror

Britannia Hospital (1982)

1st January 200130th August 2018

Rating: ★★

British Social Satire

Director: Lindsay Anderson
Actors: Malcolm McDowell, Leonard Rossiter, Graham Crowden, Robin Askwith, …
Category: Science Fiction

Candy Stripers (2006)

31st December 200630th August 2018

Rating: ★

Bimbo Alien Body Snatchers

Director: Kate Robbins
Actors: Brian Lloyd, Tori White, Nicole Rayburn, William Edwards Jr, …
Category: Science Fiction

The Cars That Ate Paris (1974)

5th March 200330th August 2018

Rating: ★★★½

Strange Town Based Around Car Crashes

Director: Peter Weir
Actors: Terry Camilleri, John Meillon, Melissa Jaffer, Chris Haywood, …
Category: Science Fiction

Coma (1978)

22nd May 20018th February 2019

Rating: ★★★

Medical Conspiracy Thriller

Director: Michael Crichton
Actors: Genevieve Bujold, Michael Douglas, Richard Widmark, Rip Torn, …
Category: Science Fiction

Coma (2012)

22nd September 201226th December 2018

Rating: ★

Medical Conspiracy Thriller

Director: Mikael Salomon
Actors: Lauren Ambrose, Steven Pasquale, Geena Davis, James Woods, …
Category: Science Fiction

Corridors of Blood (1958)

18th October 200426th July 2019

Rating: ★★★

19th Century Medical Experiments

Director: Robert Day
Actors: Boris Karloff, Christopher Lee, Francis de Wolff, Betta St John, …
Category: Horror

Cowards Bend the Knee, or The Blue Hands (2003)

29th July 200425th October 2019

Rating: ★★★½

Surreal Silent Movie Melodrama

Director: Guy Maddin
Actors: Darcy Fehr, Melissa Dionisio, Amy Stewart, Louis Negin, …
Category: Fantasy

Crimes of the Future (1970)

8th March 201530th August 2018

Rating: ★★★½

Strange Future Mutations and Fetishes

Director: David Cronenberg
Actors: Ronald Mlodzik, Jon Lidolt, Tania Zolty, Jack Messinger, …
Category: Science Fiction

A Cure for Wellness (2016)

4th June 201713th May 2019

Rating: ★★

Sinister Health Sanatorium

Director: Gore Verbinski
Actors: Dane DeHaan, Jason Isaacs, Mia Goth, Ivo Nandi, …
Category: Horror

Dead Ringers (1988)

22nd January 200221st October 2019

Rating: ★★★★★

Disturbed Twin Psychology

Director: David Cronenberg
Actors: Jeremy Irons, Genevieve Bujold, Heidi von Palleske
Category: Horror

The Dentist (1996)

4th April 20036th November 2019

Rating: ★★★

Psycho Dentist

Director: Brian Yuzna
Actors: Corbin Bernsen, Linda Hoffman, Ken Foree, Molly Hagan, …
Category: Horror

The Dentist 2 (1998)

4th May 19999th February 2019

Rating: ★★★

Psycho Dentist

Director: Brian Yuzna
Actors: Corbin Bernsen, Jillian McWhirter, Susanne Wright, Lee Dawson, …
Category: Horror

The Doctor and the Devils (1985)

15th February 200116th July 2019

Rating: ★★★

19th Century Grave Robbers

Director: Freddie Francis
Actors: Timothy Dalton, Jonathan Pryce, Stephen Rea, Julian Sands, …
Category: Horror

Doctor K (1999)

7th April 201230th August 2018

Rating: ★★

Faith Healer Surgeon

Director: Kwak Kyung-Taek
Actors: Cha In-Pyo, Kim Hae-Soo, Kim Ha-Neul
Category: Fantasy

Dr Giggles (1992)

2nd January 20009th February 2019

Rating: ★★★

Psycho Medic

Director: Manny Coto
Actors: Larry Drake, Holly Marie Combs, Keith Diamond, Richard Bradford, …
Category: Horror

Embalming (1999)

24th April 201330th August 2018

Rating: ★★★

Blackmarket Organ Legging/Sinister Cult

Director: Shinji Aoyama
Actors: Reiko Takashima, Yutaka Matsushige, Toshio Shiba, Hitomi Miwa, …
Category: Horror

Excision (2012)

26th December 201225th October 2018

Rating: ★★★

Alienated Teenage Girl

Director: Richard Bates Jr.
Actors: Annalynne McCord, Traci Lords, Roger Bart, Ariel Winter, …
Category: Horror

Exquisite Tenderness (1995)

29th August 201230th August 2018

Rating: ★★½

Psycho Surgeon

Director: Carl Schenkel
Actors: Isabel Glasser, James Remar, Charles Dance, Malcolm McDowell, …
Category: Horror

Extreme Measures (1996)

23rd September 200014th June 2019

Rating: ★★½

Illicit Medical Experiments

Director: Michael Apted
Actors: Hugh Grant, Gene Hackman, Sarah Jessica Parker, David Morse, …
Category: Science Fiction

Eyes Without a Face (1959)

5th May 200031st May 2019

Rating: ★★★★

Mad Killer Surgeon

Director: Georges Franju
Actors: Pierre Brasseur, Edith Scob, Alida Valli, Francois Guerin, …
Category: Horror

The Face of Another (1966)

16th April 201130th August 2018

Rating: ★★★★

Man With No Face

Director: Hiroshi Teshigahara
Actors: Tatsuya Nakadai, Mikijiro Hira, Machiko Kyo, Miki Irie, …
Category: Science Fiction

Frankenstein ’80 (1972)

15th March 201729th September 2019

Rating: ★

Modernised Frankenstein Film

Director: Mario Mancini
Actors: John Richardson, Gordon Mitchell, Renato Romano, Xiro Papas, …
Category: Horror

Grace (2009)

30th August 201217th August 2019

Rating: ★★★★

Nightmare Baby

Director: Paul Solet
Actors: Jordan Ladd, Samantha Ferris, Gabrielle Rose, Malcolm Stewart, …
Category: Horror

The H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival – North (1999)

18th June 199917th December 2018

Rating: ★★★★

Festival of H.P. Lovecraft Short Films

Category: Horror

Hands of a Stranger (1962)

6th January 201526th January 2019

Rating: ★★

Possessed Hands/The Hands of Orlac Adaptation

Director: Newton Arnold
Actors: James Stapleton, Paul Lukather, Joan Harvey, Larry Haddon, …
Category: Horror

The Hands of Orlac (1924)

26th August 201130th August 2018

Rating: ★★★★

Possessed Hands/Silent German Classic

Director: Robert Wiene
Actors: Conrad Veidt, Alexandra Sorina, Fritz Kortner, Carmen Cartellieri, …
Category: Horror

Hardwired (2009)

2nd June 201127th June 2019

Rating: ★★

Satiric Corporate Future/Advertising Brain Implants

Director: Ernie Barbarash
Actors: Cuba Gooding Jr, Val Kilmer, Michael Ironside, Tatiana Maslany, …
Category: Science Fiction

The Human Centipede 3 (Final Sequence) (2015)

13th July 201530th August 2018

Rating: ★

Prison Warden Surgically Connects Prisoners’ Bodies

Director: Tom Six
Actors: Dieter Laser, Laurence R. Harvey, Eric Roberts, Bree Olson, …
Category: Horror

The Human Centipede (First Sequence) (2009)

14th September 201030th August 2018

Rating: ★★★★

Mad Surgeon Connects Human Bodies

Director: Tom Six
Actors: Dieter Laser, Ashley C. Williams, Ashlynn Yennie, Akihiro Kitamura, …
Category: Horror

The Human Centipede II (Full Sequence) (2011)

11th February 201223rd February 2019

Rating: ★★★★

Madman Surgically Connects Human Bodies

Director: Tom Six
Actors: Laurence R. Harvey, Vivien Bridson, Lee Harris, Ashlyn Yennie, …
Category: Horror

The Incredible 2-Headed Transplant (1971)

26th December 201130th August 2018

Rating: 0­

Two-Headed Transplant/Mad Scientist

Director: Anthony M. Lanza
Actors: Bruce Dern, John Bloom, Pat Priest, Albert Cole, …
Category: Horror

The Island (2005)

24th July 20051st December 2019

Rating: ★

Clones on the Run/Action

Director: Michael Bay
Actors: Ewan McGregor, Scarlett Johansson, Djimon Hounsou, Sean Bean, …
Category: Science Fiction

The Kingdom (1994)

16th December 200116th June 2019

Rating: ★★★★

Haunted Hospital/Black Comedy

Director: Morten Arnfred, Lars von Trier
Actors: Ernst Hugo Järegård, Kirsten Rolffes, Søren Pilmark, Peter Mygind, …
Category: Horror

The Kingdom II (1997)

30th September 199916th June 2019

Rating: ★★★

Haunted Hospital/Black Comedy

Director: Morten Arnfred, Lars von Trier
Actors: Ernst Hugo Järegård, Holger Juul Hansen, Kirsten Rolffes, Søren Pilmark, …
Category: Horror

Mad Love (1935)

1st November 200330th August 2018

Rating: ★★★★

Mad Surgeon/Possessed Hands

Director: Karl Freund
Actors: Peter Lorre, Colin Clive, Frances Drake, Ted Healy, …
Category: Horror

The Manitou (1978)

17th February 200317th January 2019

Rating: ★★★½

Reincarnated Indian Medicine Man

Director: William Girdler
Actors: Tony Curtis, Michael Ansara, Susan Strasberg, Jon Cedar, …
Category: Horror

Never Let Me Go (2010)

17th November 201023rd August 2019

Rating: ★★★★

Organ-Harvesting Dystopia

Director: Mark Romanek
Actors: Carey Mulligan, Andrew Garfield, Keira Knightley, Charlotte Rampling, …
Category: Science Fiction

Nightmare Cinema (2018)

13th September 20196th December 2019

Rating: ★★★

Horror Anthology

Director: Mick Garris, Alejandro Brugues, Joe Dante, Ryuhei Kitamura, …
Actors: Mickey Rourke, Richard Chamberlain, Elizabeth Reaser, Annabeth Gish
Category: Horror

The Nurse (1997)

31st December 199730th August 2018

Rating: ★★

Psycho Nurse

Director: Rob Malenfant
Actors: Lisa Zane, Janet Gunn, Michael Fairman, John Stockwell, …
Category: Horror

Nurse 3-D (2013)

22nd June 201412th June 2019

Rating: ★★★

Psycho Nurse

Director: Doug Aarniokoski
Actors: Paz de la Huerta, Katrina Bowden, Judd Nelson, Corbin Bleu, …
Category: Horror

Parts: The Clonus Horror (1979)

6th January 201630th August 2018

Rating: ★★★

Secret Cloning Program

Director: Robert S. Fiveson
Actors: Timothy Donnelly, Peter Graves, Paulette Breen, David Hooks, …
Category: Science Fiction

Patrick (1978)

9th October 20036th August 2019

Rating: ★★★

Psychic Coma Patient

Director: Richard Franklin
Actors: Susan Penhaligon, Robert Helpmann, Rod Mullnar, Bruce Barry, …
Category: Horror

Patrick (2013)

10th August 20146th August 2019

Rating: ★

Psychic Coma Patient

Director: Mark Hartley
Actors: Sharni Vinson, Charles Dance, Jackson Gallagher, Rachel Griffiths, …
Category: Horror

Rabid (1977)

11th December 199926th October 2019

Rating: ★★★

Parasitic Skin Graft

Director: David Cronenberg
Actors: Marilyn Chambers, Frank Moore, Joe Silver, Howard Ryshpan, …
Category: Horror

Rabid (2019)

26th October 201926th October 2019

Rating: ★★½

Parasitic Skin Graft

Director: Jen Soska, Sylvia Soska
Actors: Laura Vandervoort, Benjamin Hollingsworth, Ted Atherton, Hanneke Talbot, …
Category: Horror

Red Blooded American Girl (1990)

7th July 200630th August 2018

Rating: ★★½

Medical Vampirism

Director: David Blyth
Actors: Andrew Stevens, Heather Thomas, Christopher Plummer, Kim Coates, …
Category: Horror

Repo Men (2010)

21st March 201030th August 2019

Rating: ★★

Future Organ Repossession

Director: Miguel Sapochnik
Actors: Jude Law, Forest Whitaker, Alice Braga, Liev Schreiber, …
Category: Science Fiction

Repo: The Genetic Opera (2008)

8th January 201317th September 2019

Rating: ★

Future Organ Repossession/Rock Musical

Director: Darren Lynn Bousman
Actors: Alexa Vega, Anthony Stewart Head, Paul Sorvino, Sarah Brightman, …
Category: Science Fiction

The Revenge of Frankenstein (1958)

26th February 200124th November 2019

Rating: ★★★★

Hammer Frankenstein Film

Director: Terence Fisher
Actors: Peter Cushing, Francis Matthews, Michael Gwynn
Category: Horror

Saw III (2006)

11th February 200717th September 2019

Rating: ★★

Killer’s Sadistic Games

Director: Darren Lynn Bousman
Actors: Tobin Bell, Shawnee Smith, Bahar Soomekh, Angus Macfadyen, …
Category: Horror

Saw VI (2009)

2nd November 200915th March 2019

Rating: ★★

Killer’s Sadistic Games

Director: Kevin Greutert
Actors: Tobin Bell, Costas Mandylor, Betsy Russell, Peter Outerbridge, …
Category: Horror

Scream and Scream Again (1970)

20th December 20094th October 2019

Rating: ★★

Mad Scientist/Android Takeover Conspiracy

Director: Gordon Hessler
Actors: Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, Alfred Marks, Christopher Matthews, …
Category: Science Fiction

Seconds (1966)

18th February 200212th April 2019

Rating: ★★★★

Secret Rejuvenation Syndicate

Director: John Frankenheimer
Actors: Rock Hudson, Salome Jens, John Randolph, Will Geer, …
Category: Science Fiction

Shivers (1975)

17th August 200026th October 2019

Rating: ★★★★

Sexual Fetishism Parasites

Director: David Cronenberg
Actors: Paul Hampton, Lynn Lowry, Barbara Steele, Alan Migicovsky, …
Category: Horror

Silent Hill (2006)

10th November 200612th October 2019

Rating: ★★★

Videogame Adaptation/Sinister Otherworldly Town

Director: Christophe Gans
Actors: Radha Mitchell, Laurie Holden, Sean Bean, Alice Krige, …
Category: Horror

Silent Hill: Revelation (2012)

22nd November 201224th May 2019

Rating: ★

Videogame Adaptation/Sinister Otherworldly Town

Director: Michael J. Bassett
Actors: Adelaide Clemens, Sean Bean, Kit Harington, Carrie-Anne Moss, …
Category: Horror

The Skin I Live In (2011)

9th October 201131st August 2018

Rating: ★★★★

Mad Surgeon and His Woman Prisoner

Director: Pedro Almodovar
Actors: Antonio Banderas, Elena Anaya, Marisa Paredes, Blanca Suarez, …
Category: Horror

Sublime (2007)

5th November 201030th August 2018

Rating: ★★

Hospital Nightmare and Hallucinations

Director: Tony Krantz
Actors: Tom Cavanagh, Kathleen York, Katherine Cunningham-Eves, Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs, …
Category: Horror

Tell-Tale (2009)

21st September 20109th April 2019

Rating: ★★

Possessed Transplant Organ

Director: Michael Cuesta
Actors: Josh Lucas, Lena Headey, Brian Cox, Beatrice Miller, …
Category: Horror

The Terminal Man (1974)

5th July 200128th December 2018

Rating: ★★★

Neurosurgical Experiment Amok/Michael Crichton Adaptation

Director: Mike Hodges
Actors: George Segal, Joan Hackett, Richard A. Dysart, Donald Moffatt, …
Category: Science Fiction

The Thing with Two Heads (1972)

21st June 201530th August 2018

Rating: ★★★

Two-Headed Transplant

Director: Lee Frost
Actors: Ray Milland, Rosey Grier, Don Marshall, Roger Perry, …
Category: Horror

Thirst (1979)

10th May 201130th August 2018

Rating: ★★½

Medical Vampires

Director: Rod Hardy
Actors: Chantal Contouri, David Hemmings, Shirley Cameron, Rod Mullinar, …
Category: Horror

Tusk (2014)

19th January 201520th February 2019

Rating: ★★½

Man Surgically Transformed Into a Walrus

Director: Kevin Smith
Actors: Michael Parks, Justin Long, Johnny Depp, Haley Joel Osment, …
Category: Horror

Ultraviolet (1998)

2nd May 19992nd October 2019

Rating: ★★★★½

Vampire Hunters

Director: Joe Ahearne
Actors: Jack Davenport, Susannah Harker, Idris Elba, Philip Quast, …
Category: Horror

The Vampire (1957)

21st July 201013th September 2019

Rating: ★★

Medical Vampire

Director: Paul Landres
Actors: John Beal, Kenneth Tobey, Coleen Gray, Lydia Reed, …
Category: Horror

The Void (2016)

16th April 201724th May 2019

Rating: ★★★

Hospital of Horrors/H.P. Lovecraft Homage

Director: Jeremy Gillespie, Steven Kostanski
Actors: Aaron Poole, Kenneth Welsh, Daniel Fathers, Kathleen Munroe, …
Category: Horror

The X Files: I Want to Believe (2008)

24th September 200827th November 2019

Rating: ★

The X Files Film Spinoff/Psychic Priest/Organ Harvesting

Director: Chris Carter
Actors: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Billy Connolly, Amanda Peet, …
Category: Science Fiction

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