Comment In all honesty, this isn't truely a horror. What it is is a rather effective british comedy, pretty much a down to earth farce about an unusual hospital filled with eccentrics... A royal visit to see the hospital is set against the unfolding sceintific experiments (think Frankenstein's monster).
Whilst it isn't really horror, its an odd comedy, particular for those who like the classic British comedy movies and series.
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Mick Travis (Malcolm McDowell) is a reporter who is about to shoot
a documentary on Britannia Hospital, an institution which mirrors
the downsides of British Society. It's the day when Her Royal
Highness is to visit the hospital to inaugurate a new wing, where
advanced (and sinister) scientific experiments led by Prof. Millar
(Graham Crowden) will take place. Everybody in the hospital, from
the cooks who refuse to cook, to the painters who couldn't care
less to get their job done, to an African cannibalistic dictator
(a la Amin Dada) whom demonstrators want expelled from the hospital
and tried, will contribute to making HRH's visit (and Mick Travis's
life) a true nightmare.
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Leonard Rossiter .... Vincent Potter
Brian Pettifer .... Biles
John Moffatt .... Greville Figg
Fulton Mackay .... Chief Superintendant Johns
Vivian Pickles .... Matron
Barbara Hicks .... Miss Tinker
Graham Crowden .... Professor Millar
Jill Bennett .... Dr. MacMillan
Peter Jeffrey .... Sir Geoffrey
Marsha A. Hunt .... Nurse Amanda Persil (as Marsha Hunt)
Catherine Willmer .... Dr. Houston
Mary MacLeod .... Casualty Sister
Joan Plowright .... Phyllis Grimshaw
Robin Askwith .... Ben Keating
Dave Atkins .... Sharkey
This film is really enjoyable. Its not horror in the strictest sense and is best described as a comedy (and note the huge all star british comedian cast! Wow! oh and luke skywalker getting stoned), but the whole frankenstein subplot (main?) can't be ignored (its kind of the centre point of the whole film).
Think Kingdom, but with unions, protesters, pompous british upper class, silly Britishness ... oh and not ghosts!
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