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7	[[caption-width-right:300:Obligatory "YOU CAN CHECK IN, BUT YOU CAN'T CHECK OUT!"]]
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9	-> ''All her bones are decaying and her organs are all rancid and her blood is malignant as slime...''
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11	''Hospital Massacre'' (also known as ''X-Ray'' and more rarely as ''Ward 13'') is a 1982 SlasherMovie, directed by Boaz Davidson for Creator/TheCannonGroup.
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13	On Valentine's Day in 1961, a little girl named Susan Jeremy, after being left a Valentine by nerdy classmate Harold Rusk, crumpled it up and mocked Harold along with her friend David, who Harold (who had been watching the two from outside Susan‘s house [[note]] No, not ''[[Music/BeautifulFreak that'' Susan's House]]. [[/note]]) killed in a fit of rage by [[FridgeLogic somehow]] impaling him on a hatstand while Susan was in the kitchen getting cake.
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15	Exactly nineteen years later, Susan (by now divorced from her husband Tom, with a daughter named Eva, and a fiancé named Jack) is stopping by a hospital to pick up the results of a routine checkup required by her new job, but finds herself being forced to stay overnight by the staff after a man in surgical attire secretly murders her personal physician and tampers with her file. As the masked man starts murdering medical personnel and appears to be zeroing in on her, Susan realizes something is horribly wrong, but her concerns are ignored by everyone except an ever so helpful intern named Harry, who begins trying to help her escape the hospital, which is quickly becoming a bloodbath...
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18	!! The doctors say this film shows symptoms of the following:
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20	%%* EightiesHair
21	%%* AbandonedArea: The Ninth Floor.
22	* TheAlcoholic: Hal, a lecherous drunk prone to wandering the halls.
23	%%* AMinorKidroduction
24	* AttemptedRape: Hal tries forcing himself on Susan.
25	* AxCrazy: Harold is an unhinged killer who gleefully goes about massacring an entire hospital staff.
26	* BandageMummy: Susan stumbles upon a trio of patients like this while trying to escape from the murderous doctor.
27	* BedlamHouse: The hospital ''really'' gives off this vibe.
28	* BigDamnHeroes: In the loosest sense possible. Right when Harold is going to cut Susan's heart out, her roommates randomly wander into the room, distracting Harold long enough for Susan to grab a knife off the operating tray and stab him with it.
29	%%* CassandraTruth: Susan.
30	* CastAsAMask: Don Grenough portrayed Harold in his surgical attire.
31	%%* CatScare: So many.
32	* ChainsawGood: How Jack meets his end.
33	* ChaseScene: Near the end, a long one between Susan and Harold occurs.
34	%%* ChekhovsGun: Susan's lighter.
35	%%* ClosedCircle
36	* {{Cowboy}}: There's apparently one with the mumps in Ward 11.
37	* CoverDrop: Harold about to cut Susan's heart out.
38	%%* CreepyBasement: The Archives.
39	%%* CruelAndUnusualDeath: It's set in a hospital, so of course lots of nasty implements get put to use.
40	%%* CrustyCaretaker: The janitor.
41	%%* CueTheSun
42	* CurtainCamouflage: Used by both Susan and Harold.
43	* DeadlyDoctor: Harold, since he actually is employed by the hospital.
44	%%* DeathByMocking: David.
45	* DeliberatelyMonochrome: Used for flashbacks to the opening and the adult Harold's introduction after TheReveal.
46	* DisneyVillainDeath: Ultimately, despite being stabbed in the side and [[ManOnFire immolated]] Harold finally meets his death after falling off the roof of the hospital.
47	* DisproportionateRetribution: Harold's entire motive for attempt to ruin Susan's life and murdering numerous hospital staff is that she rejected his valentine when they were kids.
48	* DramaticUnmask: Susan ripping off Harold's surgical mask.
49	* DyeHard: InUniverse Susan was blond as a child, but is brunette as an adult.
50	%%* TheEighties
51	* EnfantTerrible: Young Harold, as David finds out the hard way via impalement on a hatstand.
52	* EvilElevator: Harold messes with it the first time Susan uses it.
53	* EveryoneIsASuspect: The amount of {{Red Herring}}s is a bit ridiculous.
54	* {{Expy}}: Harold, and Mr. Randles from ''Film/TheLastSlumberParty''.
55	* FanService: In the early eighties, a routine checkup meant getting completely nude.
56	%%* FinalGirl: Susan.
57	* FreakOut: Harold experiences one after killing the janitor.
58	%%* {{Gorn}}
59	%%* GossipyHens: Susan's hospital roommates.
60	* GroupHug: Susan, Tom and Eva in the end.
61	* HarmfulToMinors: Young Susan finds David's dead body.
62	* HollywoodAcid: The janitor gets his face dunked in a sink that was full of it... for some reason.
63	%%* HorrorDoesntSettleForSimpleTuesday
64	%%* HospitalHottie: Of course.
65	* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: David on ''a hat stand'', and Doctor Beam getting a metal spike... thing through the neck.
66	%%* ImprovisedWeapon: A stethoscope and a pipe.
67	* InfernalRetaliation: Attempted by Harold, but Susan moves out of the way, so he falls off the roof.
68	* InformedFlaw: According to Susan, Tom is an asshole.
69	* ItWasHereISwear: When Jack's head disappears from the hat box Harold left for Susan.
70	* {{Jerkass}}: Hal, and one of the old ladies Susan is forced to share a room with.
71	* KarmaHoudini: You'd expect Hal to be killed off, but nope.
72	* KidsAreCruel: Susan and David making fun of him was what caused Harold. Also applies to Harold himself, given that he [[DisproportionateRetribution murders David over it]].
73	%%* UsefulNotes/LosAngeles
74	* ManOnFire: Susan uses her lighter to set Harold on fire, after spilling chemicals on him.
75	%%* MedicalHorror
76	%%* MenacingStroll
77	* MundaneMadeAwesome: Young Susan getting slices of cake for herself and David; there's intense music, gratuitous zoom-ins, she takes the biggest knife available, and then viciously hacks the cake completely in half with it.
78	%%* MurdererPOV
79	* NoodleImplements: Why is there a screwdriver in a tray of medical tools?
80	* NoodleIncident: Jack mentions a patient apparently ran amok in the hospital the previous year.
81	%%* OffscreenTeleportation
82	* OffWithHisHead: Jack's death.
83	* OminousLatinChanting: Used so much it's practically Harold's {{Leitmotif}}.
84	* OnceIsNotEnough: Getting knifed and then whacked with a pipe just slows Harold down.
85	* PeekABooCorpse: The janitor finding Doctor Jacobs's body in a cabinet, and Nancy just happens to enter the lab as Suzy's body falls out of closet.
86	* PipePain: Susan fends Harold off with one.
87	* PlayingWithSyringes: Nurse Kitty's death.
88	%%* PornStache: Doctor Beam.
89	%%* ReactionShot
90	* ReCut: The version titled ''X-Ray'' apparently had a ridiculous twelve minutes lopped off. Better artwork, though.
91	* TheReveal: [[TheUntwist If the name wasn't a dead giveaway]], Harry is Harold.
92	* RiddleForTheAges: What the Hell is wrong with the patient Harold switched Susan's test results with?
93	* ShadowDiscretionShot: Jack's death.
94	* ShoutOut: To ''Film/MyBloodyValentine'', in the form of a trio of hospital employees wearing Harry Warden-esque gas masks.
95	%%* TheSixties: The opening.
96	* SlasherSmile: Done by Harold after he kills David, coupled with a KubrickStare.
97	* StatuesqueStunner: Nurse Dora, who is roughly a head taller than everyone else in the film.
98	%%* StrappedToAnOperatingTable
99	* ThirteenIsUnlucky: Alternate title ''Ward 13''.
100	* TitleIn: Susan's House - 1961 and 19 Years Later.
101	* TwoFirstNames: Susan Jeremy.
102	%%* VaderBreath
103	* ValentinesDayViolence: Both the prologue and the film itself are set on a violent Valentine's Days nineteen years apart.
104	** In the prologue, Susan turns down Harold on Valentine's Day, and mocks him with her friend David. Harold then breaks into her house and impales David on a hatstand.
105	** In the movie itself, Susan stops by a hospital on Valentine's Day, where Harold kills multiple people, including her boyfriend Jack (whose head he presents to her in a box) and tries to kill her.
106	* WallSlump: Doctor Beam's death.
107	* WouldHurtAChild: Harold killing David, though they were roughly the same age at the time.
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