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Saturday, June 20, 2026

The Sickhouse (2008) (UK)

aka The Host/The Prey 

⭐️1/2


After some plague bacteria is found in the soil samples from a dig site located below an abandoned hospital, archeologist Gina Philips is told the project is being shut down. The place used to be an old orphanage that housed some strange cult headed by a plague doctor. She decides to break in and explore a recently-discovered sealed chamber and releases something long dormant. A group of young criminals also get locked in the hospital when they flee the scene of a car accident. Creepy ghost kids, the plague-masked evil spirit and the plague itself begin causing fatal problems for everyone inside. The film takes the great idea of outfitting its villain in a plague doctor getup and completely fails at making it resonate thanks to annoying quick cuts and god-awful editing. There’s a gruesome bathtub scene with a messy “birth” and a dumb ending.

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