World’s Most Dangerous Hospitals – Vol. 1
Hospitals can be scary places. Whether you are there for emergency treatment or find yourself being poked and prodded as part of an examination or awaiting test results that can impact your life… hospitals can make anyone uneasy.
If movies have taught me anything it is that hospitals can also be dangerous places. Don’t believe me? Here’s a list of some of the World’s Most Dangerous Hospitals…
10. Halloween II (1981)
Haddonfield, Illinois. After a Halloween night killing spree, the maniacal Michael Myers makes his way to Haddonfield Memorial Hospital looking for Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis), who was admitted hours earlier with multiple injuries after her own horrific encounter with the murderer earlier that night.
But before Michael Myers gets to his intended target, he happens upon Budd (Leo Rossi), an obnoxious paramedic, who is not going to let a little something like a killing spree spoil his appetite for pizza or the lovely nurse Karen. Myers finds Budd and Karen, using the hydrotherapy tub for some wet and wild fun and that’s when he decides to turn the heat up on the horny hospital employees.
Karen realizing the water is getting too hot, asks Budd to go take a look at the controls in the adjoining room. It is there that Michael comes from behind and strangles Budd to death, before turning his attention to Karen, who at this point has gotten out of the tub and is preparing to get back to work. Michael creeps up behind her and puts his hand on her shoulder, Karen thinking it’s Budd breaks the news that she has to get back to work, but asks if he wants to get breakfast with her later, then she turns around and comes face to face with death itself! Michael grabs Karen by the hair and begins repeatedly dunking her head into the scalding hot water, blistering her skin and eventually killing her!
9. Crank (2006)
Chev Chelios (Jason Statham) has an interesting dilemma. The professional assassin has been injected with a poison that will activate if his heart rate drops… which means Chelios is doing whatever he can to keep his heart rate up, including storming into a hospital looking for epinephrine.
When the pharmacist alerts security, Chelios has a whole new problem to deal with. To better blend in with the hospital setting, Chelios ditches his clothes and puts on a hospital gown… but security quickly spots him and Chelios finds himself running through the halls and down the stairs trying to avoid security. Nobody is safe as Chelios is running like mad, knocking over members of the hospital staff and even preventing a heart attack victim from getting the emergency care he needs! Chev Chelios (and his gun) convinces a nurse to not only give him a vial of epinephrine that he so desperately needs, but also to “juice him up” with a defibrillator!!
8. Eye of the Tiger (1986)
Buck Matthews (Gary Busey) finds himself at odds with a gang of drug dealing bikers. The bikers have already killed his wife, as retaliation for Buck standing up to them, and now they’ve kidnapped Buck’s young daughter. Looking to find out where they have taken his daughter, Buck disguises himself as a doctor to interrogate one of the bikers, who ended up in the hospital with a crushed larynx after an earlier encounter with Buck and his buddy, J.B. Deveraux.
In order to get him to talk (or in this case write), “Dr. Buck” takes a stick of dynamite, slathers the wickless end with petroleum jelly and inserts it into the biker’s rectum. Buck then lights the wick… the biker has 25 seconds to write the location of Buck’s daughter down before the dynamite goes off. Once Buck gets what he wants, he leaves with the wick still burning… this causes the biker to go into a panic and while the dynamite never goes boom, the biker’s heart sure does!
7. Red Heat (1988)
A Chicago cop, Art Ridzik (James Belushi) and a Russian Cop, Ivan Danko (Arnold Schwarzenegger), certainly make for an odd couple. But the duo find themselves working together in an attempt to take down a Russian fugitive who has made his way to the United States, drug kingpin Viktor Rostavili.
Ridzik and Danko make their way to the hospital to question a known associate of Viktor’s, Pytor Tatomovich. When they arrive there is a nurse in the room with Tatomovich… but in actuality it is a hitman disguised as a nurse, making sure Tatomovich won’t be talking to the police… or anyone else for that matter. When the cops realize Tatomovich is dead… they figure “the nurse” is to blame.
A foot chase ensues, “the nurse” makes it to the escalator, bur Ridzik is following right behind. When they get downstairs, Ridzik draws his weapon when suddenly a woman, Cat Manzetti (Gina Gershon), stands between Ridzik and “the nurse”. This distraction allows “the nurse” a chance to pull a gun and fire off three shots in Ridzik’s direction. Cat pleads with “the nurse” to stop, before Ivan Danko shows up and blows “the nurse” away!
6. The Dark Knight (2008)
After The Joker (Heath Ledger) has thrown Gotham City into total chaos, his next move is to disguise himself as a nurse so he can pay the hospitalized Harvey Dent (Arron Eckhart) a visit at Gotham General Hospital. The now disfigured District Attorney Harvey Dent (Aaron Eckhart) gets to hear the Joke’s own twisted view of Gotham City and the power players within.
After his chat with Dent has concluded, The Joker begins making his way out of the hospital, repeatedly pressing a detonator as he walks out. The detonator is connected to explosives that have been planted throughout Gotham General Hospital. Before it is all said and done, the bombs end up destroying the entire medical facility!
5. The Hunted (1995)
Paul Racine (Christopher Lambert) managed to do the impossible… he survived a ninja attack! While Paul didn’t die from the attack, he was not unscathed and now finds himself recovering from his near fatal injuries in a Nagoya hospital.
A restless Paul begins to get paranoid that the ninjas will be back. So Paul throws on his coat and heads for the door of his hospital room, just as the detective on his case shows up. The detective reassures Paul that his hospital room is the safest place for him to be, running down a list of the measures that are in place to protect Paul. The detective also tells Paul there is no such things as “ninja cults” in modern day Japan… naturally, while that conversation is taking place, members of the very real “ninja cult” have taken out the cops watching Paul’s hospital window from across the street. They then promptly shoot an arrow, hitting the detective, whose dying words end up being “I was wrong”. The detective drops his gun and Paul picks it up.
At this point the lights have been cut, and the police are scrambling. A ninja enters Paul’s room and Paul, who was hiding in the closet, shoots him dead. Paul then manages to get to the stairs, narrowly avoiding being detected by another ninja, before making it out to the rainy streets of Nagoya… Paul Racine is officially the hunted!
4. Hard to Kill (1990)
The Los Angeles Coma Center. Mason Storm (Steven Seagal) has come out of a coma after seven years. But that good news is about to be spoiled by some very bad news.
Senator Vernon Trent, the man who presumed Storm was dead all these years, finds out otherwise and sends hitman, Jack Axel. to the Coma Center to finish the job. When Axel arrives he immediately starts taking out hospital staffers. Storm, who is almost completely immobile after being in a coma for so long, spots the carnage while he’s on a hospital gurney and manages to get into an elevator thanks to his survival instincts, a little luck and a mop.
But Storm’s biggest source of help comes in the form of the nurse who has been caring for him all these years, Andy Stewart (Kelly LeBrock). Andy tracks Storm down in the elevator, after he managed to evade Axel at every floor, forcing the hired gun to take the stairs! Andy wheels Storm out of the elevator, out of the hospital and gets him to her car before Axel can catch up with Storm… proving once again that Mason Storm is hard to kill!
3. Truck Turner (1974)
Bounty hunter, Mack “Truck” Turner (Isaac Hayes) pays his bail bondsman friend, Nate Dinwiddie, in the hospital. Knowing trouble is heading their way Mack gives Nate a gun for protection… moments later that trouble has arrived in the form of gangland pimp, Harvard Blue (Yaphet Kotto), and his goons!
What follows is some of the most violent visiting hours in hospital history with Mack and the bedridden Nate, opening fire on Harvard and his henchmen! Doctors, nurses and patients find themselves caught in the crossfire. Harvard even sacrifices one of his own men in hopes of escaping the scene, but Mack is hot on his trail… following his well dressed foe into an operating room and then down a crowded corridor.
A desperate Harvard then grabs a child out of their sick bed and takes them hostage, all in the name of escaping the hospital without being shot by Mack. Harvard shoots a security guard as he makes his way to the elevator. Meanwhile, Mack takes the stairs hoping to get the jump on Harvard. Mack manages to shoot Harvard in the leg when he exits the elevator… this allows the young child to run to safety.
But Harvard isn’t through trying to escape, he stumbles out an exit door, only to be shot in the back by Mack as he makes his way to the street. With two bullets in him Harvard slumps to the curb. The persistent pimp manages to get up as the life begins to leave his body, Harvard slowly makes it to his car, he gets behind the wheel and then dies, slumping forward and sounding the car horn in the process… all while a grim reaper like Mack Turner watches on.
2. Death Wish II (1982)
Paul Kersey (Charles Bronson) is no stranger to these World’s Most Dangerous lists. Having appeared in the previous two installments, Kersey may have a case for being one of the world’s most dangerous men.
Paul Kersey, under the guise of Dr. Peter Carter, gained access to the McClaren State Hospital for the criminally insane. Kersey is there to take out the last of a gang of men who raped and killed his daughter. The final piece of the puzzle is one Charles Wilson, or Nirvana as he is known on the streets. After convincing the orderly on duty, Donald Kay, to allow him to see Wilson, despite not being on the list of appointments that day… Kersey comes face to face with Wilson in one of the hospital’s examination rooms.
Kersey drops his clipboard which gets a chuckle out of Wilson, but Wilson’s not laughing when Kersey pulls out his gun. Wilson acts fast flipping the table and using it as shield against Kersey. The two men begin to struggle. Kersey delivers a series of kicks as Wilson is down on his hands and knees. But the larger Wilson gets back up to his feet, Kersey nails him with a punch, but it barely registers. Wilson uses brute force to grab Kersey in a bear hug and runs him across the room, smashing Kersey into the wall. Wilson then reveals that he had a scalpel hidden in his shoe, he repeatedly stabs Kersey in the shoulder with the blade! Kersey mounts a comeback and even picks up the scalpel that Wilson dropped, but before he could use it, Wilson comes barreling at Kersey and the two end up in the back of the examination room where the electroshock therapy equipment is housed.
Wilson manages to get the blade out of Kersey’s hand, but when Wilson goes for a punch, Kersey dodges it and Wilson punches right through one of the monitors on the electroshock therapy equipment. Kersey thinks fast an turns the equipment on and frying his foe with a lethal does of high voltage!
1. Hard Boiled (1992)
When two hard boiled cops like Tequila (Chow Yun-Fat) and Alan (Tony Leung) enter a hospital that has been taken over by the sinister mobster, Johnny Wong, and his crew, you know there’s going to be carnage… but I am not sure anyone was prepared for just how much carnage there was!
The moment the double doors swing open in the hospital corridor, the bullets start flying with Tequila and Alan taking out Triad members left and right. Unfortunately in all of the chaos and confusion, Alan guns down an undercover cop. Alan into the elevator. There is little time for Alan to process his feelings, because there are plenty more bad guys waiting on the next floor (there’s a reason that Hard Boiled has a total kill count of 286!)
Among the baddies on the next floor is Johnny Wong’s enforcer, Mad Dog (Phillip Kwok)! Mad Dog is packing some serious firepower and ends up in a one on one shootout with Alan. Meanwhile, Tequila leaves to assist Officer Chang (Teresa Mo) rescue one last baby from the hospital’s maternity ward.
