Triage Of Terror: 10 Best Horror Movies Set In Hospitals (According To IMDb) – Screen Rant

Surgery wards. Mental institutions. Emergency rooms. Horror films whose events transpire in hospitals are infused with an extra layer of creepiness. The shadowy enclaves and long hallways give rise to more than just nurses and doctors; they also birth monsters, psychological terrors, and supernatural mayhem.

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The movies on this list represent the 10 besthorror features set in hospitals as ranked according to IMDb.

An interesting reimagining of the zombie movie, Infection is a prime example of J-horror. Directed by Masayuki Ochiai, it focuses on a poorly managed and underfunded hospital.

In graphic detail, Infection traces the spread of a madness-inducing virus that turns blood into a green ooze, infecting medical staff and patients alike. Dramatic and intense, watching the movie feels like attending a theatrical performance.

Session 9 is a parapsychological low-budget film with a major cult following. It stars David Caruso, Peter Mullan, and Josh Lucas as members of an asbestos removal team tasked with working on an abandoned mental asylum.

As the members of the group suffer from waning sanity, the asylum's dark past rears its ugly head. Throughout the film, ominous audio clips from a former patient's repressed memory therapy sessions are played.

The follow-up to Clive Barker's 1987 Hellraiser, Hellbound begins with protagonist Kirsty Cotton institutionalized after her father's death. Instead of finding emotional relief, Kirsty discovers the lead psychiatrist, Dr. Channard, is obsessed with accessing the world of Pinhead and the Cenobites.

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Dr. Channard tortures his own patients in order to open up the portal, even kidnapping a young female resident named Tiffany who is talented at solving puzzles.

1981's Halloween II picks up where the action of 1978's original stops. After barely surviving the night, Jamie Lee Curtis's character Laurie Strode is taken to the local hospital to recover from her wounds. Despite being shot and falling from a balcony, slasher Michael Myers continues to pursue her.

He cuts the power and disables all the emergency vehicles outside Haddonfield Memorial Hospital before moving from room to room in search of the young woman who turns out to be his sister. Michael's psychiatrist Dr. Loomis isn't far behind him, though.

Freddy Krueger returns to take out the remaining children of the adults responsible for his death when he was human. Now teens, the kids are all patients at a mental institution. They also happen to be under the supervision of Heather Langenkamp's character Nancy Thompson.

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After her run-ins with Krueger, who kills people on their sleep, Thompson studied psychology. In the movie, she works with the teens targeted by Krueger, training them to fight him in their dreams. Dream Warriors also stars Patricia Arquette and Laurence Fishburne.

Sci-fi novelist Michael Crichton directed this forgotten movie about a mass conspiracy at a medical hospital in Boston. Genevive Bujold plays a surgery resident at the hospital who grows suspicious when her healthy friend falls into a coma after a routine operation. Bujold's character Dr. Susan Wheeler exposes the hospital's high rate of coma cases, putting her own life at risk.

Soon after, Wheeler finds herself in over her head when she stumbles upon a room of young, comatose former hospital patients at the nearby Jefferson Institute. Alongside Bujold, Michael Douglas, Rip Torn, and Tom Selleck co-star.

Czech filmmaker and animator Jan vankmajer is responsible for this surreal and experimental film loosely based on works by Edgar Allan Poe and the Marquis de Sade. Pavel Liska plays a patient at a mental institution, Jean, who is committed after the death of his mother.

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The film follows Jean as he engages with other residents, as well as with the depths of his own psychological unraveling. Jean eventually comes up with a plan to free everyone from the asylum.

David Cronenberg's stylized masterpiece stars Jeremy Irons in two roles: Beverly and Elliot Mantle. These twin surgeons are well-respect gynecologists who share most things in life, including women.

After the more reserved Beverly falls for a famous actress, the Mantles' routine is upturned. The movie includes multiple nightmarish hospital scenes that become more and more absurd as the brothers delve into mania.

Samuel Fuller's classic story about a journalist who infiltrates a mental hospital still holds up. Johnny Barrett, played by Peter Breck, thinks he can score a Pulitzer Prize by writing a revelatory piece about an unsolved murder at a mental hospital.

When there's a riot at the hospital, Barrett is restrained and subjected to shock treatments, which propels a mental breakdown.

Adapted partly from a Jack London novel, The Jacket stars Adrien Brody, Keira Knightley, Kris Kristofferson, and Jennifer Jason Leigh. Brody plays an Iraq War veteran who is institutionalized after being blamed for a police officer's death.

At the hospital, Brody's character must endure experimental therapies. In order to survive, he learns to project himself out of the hospital, literally traveling through time.

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