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While traveling across country with her fiancé, Beth wakes alone in an isolated clinic to find her unborn baby has been removed. Just how far will she go to get her child back?While traveling across country with her fiancé, Beth wakes alone in an isolated clinic to find her unborn baby has been removed. Just how far will she go to get her child back?While traveling across country with her fiancé, Beth wakes alone in an isolated clinic to find her unborn baby has been removed. Just how far will she go to get her child back?
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Elizabeth Alexander
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Did you know
- TriviaAndy Whitfield's final acting role.
- GoofsThe Chinese restaurant visited shows an 8-digit telephone number for the business. Australian phone numbers were made up of 7-digits until 1995.
- Quotes
Officer Underwood: Went to the Sky Dragon, came back, fiancée's gone.
- Crazy creditsThe opening credits show Roman Numerals changing into English words
- ConnectionsReferenced in The Super Awesome Featurette: A Runner's Perspective of the Loved Ones (2011)
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Fairly entertaining and with some originality; however far from brilliant
"The Clinic" turned out to be exactly what I expected, a movie with an original plot that utilised common horror aspects to create a passable film.
The movie itself is fairly simplistic, therefore I wont go into great detail. In terms of what is good about this movie, the fact that the plot is fairly original is a huge positive in relation to the movie's genre; in addition to this, despite the often uncomfortable nature of the story, it is one that is shocking enough to keep your interest until the credits appear. Finally, the acting was, for the majority of the movie, solid, therefore the characters and their predicaments were easy to relate to.
However, despite a passable movie made watchable by some fresh and engaging ideas, the horror constructs that piece the plot together are common and have been done before within the genre and done so to a far higher standard; there is little new here if only individual events are looked at. Furthermore, I felt somewhat sickened by some of the ideas proposed in this movie; they are beyond being chilling, to the point where the situation on-screen becomes just wrong and unentertaining as a result (my dislike of children being used in horror could contribute to this view). Finally, the ending to this movie was quite unsatisfying (not that I was expecting anything spectacular to conclude the cinematic mediocrity I had already witnessed).
Overall, horror fans may appreciate the fact that the plot to this movie is original, however the underlying horror elements have been witnessed many times before. Furthermore, this film is painfully average throughout, therefore I would only recommend it if you are very intrigued by the plot or genre.
The movie itself is fairly simplistic, therefore I wont go into great detail. In terms of what is good about this movie, the fact that the plot is fairly original is a huge positive in relation to the movie's genre; in addition to this, despite the often uncomfortable nature of the story, it is one that is shocking enough to keep your interest until the credits appear. Finally, the acting was, for the majority of the movie, solid, therefore the characters and their predicaments were easy to relate to.
However, despite a passable movie made watchable by some fresh and engaging ideas, the horror constructs that piece the plot together are common and have been done before within the genre and done so to a far higher standard; there is little new here if only individual events are looked at. Furthermore, I felt somewhat sickened by some of the ideas proposed in this movie; they are beyond being chilling, to the point where the situation on-screen becomes just wrong and unentertaining as a result (my dislike of children being used in horror could contribute to this view). Finally, the ending to this movie was quite unsatisfying (not that I was expecting anything spectacular to conclude the cinematic mediocrity I had already witnessed).
Overall, horror fans may appreciate the fact that the plot to this movie is original, however the underlying horror elements have been witnessed many times before. Furthermore, this film is painfully average throughout, therefore I would only recommend it if you are very intrigued by the plot or genre.
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- Rosser94
- Mar 25, 2012
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- Runtime1 hour 34 minutes
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- 2.35 : 1
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