I have absolutely never seen anything like this movie before. You have to see this movie.

This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

.Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

Hospital Massacre starts in Los Angeles in 1961 where a young boy named Harold (Billy Jane) leaves a Valentine's Day card for the girl he fancies Susan (Elizabeth Hoy), however she does not return the sentiment & laughs at Harolds card before ripping it up & throwing it on the floor. Harold is devastated & kills Susan's friend Dave (Michael Romano) in revenge. Jump forward '19 Years Later' & Susan (Barbi Benton) is due to collect the results of some routine medical tests from a local hospital, however her doctor Dr. Jacobs (Gay Austin) seems to have disappeared & Susan is growing impatient & ask's resident intern Harry (Charles Lucia) to help. Taking a look at Susan's results Harry refers her to Dr. Saxon (John Warner Williams) as the tests provide cause for concern, Susan is admitted but soon finds out that a killer in a surgical mask is killing off anyone associated with her & eventually comes for her...Also known under the titles X-Ray & Be My Valentine, or Else... this fairly routine, unremarkable & obscure early 80's slasher was directed by Boaz Davidson who has since gone on to be a prolific producer with over 130 films credited on his IMDb profile & produced by the infamous Cannon Films who were never slow in making cheap rip-offs of the latest trend & here with Hospital Massacre they were trying to cash-in on the popularity of the teen slasher. The script is a bland collection of slasher film clichés, the isolated setting, the female lead who has to get tough in order to survive, the crazed killer, the half hearted twist reveal, a tragic or horrible event from the past sparking off a series of murders, various bit part character's killed off in various ways before a long & drawn out final chase between the female lead & the killer through lots of dark corridors. Hospital massacre had promise I suppose but nothing really ties the individual aspects of the script together, why has the killer gone to such elaborate lengths to fool Susan & the doctor's into thinking she is ill? What happened to Harry from the prologue? Wasn't he put away in prison or a mental hospital or something? Why does Dr. Saxon acts so strangely? He never tells Susan anything & walks around with those two nurses either side of him like bodyguards! No-one in the place seems to know what they are doing & seem very vague & evasive about answering questions & no-one seems bother by the sudden & unexplained disappearance of several staff members. Why kill anyone else other than Susan? If all the killer wanted was Susan's heart why involve anyone else at all? Again why this over complicated plan to make everyone think she was ill? At just under 80 odd minutes (the IMDb says that a longer 90 odd minutes version was released but I don't believe this as nothing looked missing except a few badly edited death scenes & nothing amounting to ten minutes) at least it's fairly short but the character's are thin, hard to care about & the dialogue is wooden. There are enough murders & there's even a bit of nudity but Hospital Massacre feels tame & is pretty forgettable even by 80's teen slasher standards.Several other 80's slasher films used a hospital setting, most notably Halloween II (1981) & Visiting Hours (1982) both of which are better than Hospital Massacre. Even the Valentine's Day aspect had been done before & with better effect in My Bloody Valentine (1981). Despite the title the gore is quite restrained, there's some blood splatter, a guy has his face burned with acid, people are stabbed with various surgical instruments, a guy has an axe in the head, someone gets a spike through his throat, there's an off screen decapitation & bizarrely a kid is impaled on a hat stand! None of the kills stand out or are particularly memorable. The setting doesn't look much like a hospital most of the time with dark corridors & lots of wooden doors, there doesn't seem to be any wards or many doctor's about.Probably shot on a fairly low budget Hospital Massacre was filmed in Los Angeles & is quite well made for what it is, it's certainly no worse looking than any other slasher from the period even if it's not as good as many of them. The acting isn't great, everyone except Benton tries to act suspiciously to keep us guessing but they just come across as silly looking. Former Play-mate & country singer Benton gets to strip for her examination but otherwise makes for a forgettable lead.Hospital Massacre is a pretty average 80's slasher with a lack of gore & a plot that tries to be suspenseful & mysterious but just ends up being a bit of a random mess with various killings thrown in. I have seen worse but then again I have seen a lot better too.

The plot centers around Susan, when she was a young girl she rejected a boy who sent her a valentines card and then the boy kills her brother and then years later Susan arrives at a local hospital for a rountine check up unaware that someone dressed up as a surgeon is killing off docters and nurses and is hell bent on keeping Susan trapped for his own personal revenge.Well a slasher set in a hospital is certainly different, kind of an odd setting, but in my opinion it's no different from other slasher movies during this era, The movie is quite slow and even though it has its good moments.I ultimately didn't think that this was anything special. If it would only have settled with being a basic slasher movie this would probably have been a whole lot more entertaining but instead they tried to make it into a mystery thriller which just doesn't work. You couldn't care less about Susan's decease and there just doesn't seem like there was a lot of heart put into making this movie. All in all, not a bad movie but not great, could have been a lot better and a little far fetched, I mean how come no one notices that doctors and nurses are getting killed off in a big hospital as well.

This movie is nothing great or original as it has the same setting as the previous years horror film "Halloween II". Granted this one does not feature a super killer and has a bit more mystery to it than that movie, still it does seem to copy that movie especially considering how close they were as far as release dates and such. It is also far fetched when you find out the killer and the reason behind the massacre. Still, as far as slasher movies of the 80's this one is watchable if not good. It has been a long time since I last saw this one, but I remember there being a somewhat good amount of people killed in this one, but in the end none of the deaths must have been all that memorable as I can not recall a single one. The main thing I remember is the killer and why he killed and the cover of the video tape as it featured a person in a doctor outfit covered in blood and standing over a patient holding a knife. Probably a case where the cover was actually better than the movie as a whole. There were a lot worse movies though made during this time, this one is watchable, but also it is most certainly forgettable.

I heard this was made in 1978 but didn't get released until the early 80's when video made any slasher film a potential moneybag. Am I right? Hello? As far as comparison with its peers go, it's right there, DOWN there.Kid likes girl. Girl likes other kid. First kills second. Girl screams. That, my friends is the first scene. Cut to the present.Yeah, you know where this is going.Barbi Benton screams and watches as someone kills everyone in the hospital she's staying at. This hospital seemed to be on a VERY skeleton crew too. The whole place seemed like a deserted, condemned building to me.Since Barb was a Playboy model, we get lots of breast shots here. The doctor takes his time checking her chest, but the scene is played so seriously, its hard to care.Not much fear at all. A few jumps maybe, but that be all.And no prizes for figuring it out. I had it by the end of the first reel.