Pathology
Headline: ** Perversion as a Game **
Title: PATHOLOGY
Quality: * * Acceptability: -4
SUBTITLES: None
WARNING CODES:
Language: LLL
Violence: VVV
Sex: SSS
Nudity: NNN
RATING: R
RELEASE: April 18, 2008
TIME: 93 minutes
STARRING: Milo Ventimiglia, Michael Weston, Alyssa Milano, and Lauren Lee Smith
DIRECTOR: Marc Schoelemann
PRODUCERS: Gary Giblert, Gary Lucchesi, mark Neveldine, Tom Rosenberg, Brian Taylor, and Skip Williamson
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Marc Bienstock, Eric Reid, Yan Fisher Romanovsky, David Rubin, and Barrett Stuard
WRITERS: Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor
BASED ON THE NOVEL/PLAY BY: N/A
DISTRIBUTOR: MGM
CONTENT: (HH, PaPaPa, HoHo, LLL, VVV, SSS, NNN, A, DDD, MMM) Strong humanist worldview with very strong pagan elements, plus strong homosexual references; 56 obscenities and three profanities; very strong violence with much gore includes numerous killings, beatings, corpses mutilated, surgery performed on someone alive; very strong graphic sex portrayed, murder mixed with sex, lesbian kissing; male and female nudity both during sex and nude corpses in hospital; drinking; very strong illegal drug use; and, perverse plot of medical students killing to prove how clever they can be and extreme moral relativism.
GENRE: Horror
INTENDED AUDIENCE: Adults
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Harry E. Sloan, Chairman/CEO
Clark Woods, President of Domestic Theatrical Distribution
MGM Studios Inc.
(Partially owned by Sony Corporation of America)
10250 Constellation Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 900067
Phone: (310) 449-3000
Fax: (310) 449-8819
Website: www.mgm.com
SUMMARY: PATHOLOGY is a reprobate film of a group of genius pathology (forensic) medical students who murder people as a game to see if the other students can figure out how they killed them. This perverse story has no redeeming qualities and is filled with murder, gore, gruesome autopsies, and graphic sex.
IN BRIEF:
PATHOLOGY is a reprobate film of a group of genius pathology (forensic) medical students who murder people as a game to see if the other students can figure out how they killed them. Ted Grey is a new resident who is drawn into "the game" by fellow resident Jake. The movie gives us no motivation why Ted would want to join the game of killing people except that it is the plot. Soon, Ted is drinking heavily and smoking crack cocaine. The "game players" meet in the hospital basement, nicknamed the "dungeon" where they perform an autopsy on the newly killed victim to discover the cause of death by one of their fellow players. These dungeon "meetings" include illegal drugs with homosexual and heterosexual sex before, during and after the various autopsies.
The movie has only the production values of a television show. The story is not unique, and it seems the filmmakers are counting on the gore and perversion to draw out the most base in all of its viewers. There is really nothing to recommend or merit viewing this movie. Happily, PATHOLOGY is not playing in many theaters.
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