4/5 Fun Film
  by D. Sippel (Chicago, IL United States)
Sick Nurses doesn't look to be accomplishing anything more than producing an eye-catching, bloody, fun bit of horror. The ghost is fairly standard asian fare (except in black face as opposed to the classic white), but the gore and blood get pushed up a notch and the eye candy factor is impressive enough to separate Sick Nurses from the average asian scare. It reminded me of Infection and Autopsy (non-asian) in setting: a fairly abandoned hospital, bereft of any presence other than the half-dozen or so main characters. It's hard to take too seriously or suspend much disbelief, yet the kills are fairly innovative and suitably gruesome in parts, and I was entertained from start to finish. I'll give it 3 1/2 stars.

4/5 creepy, funny, sexy, weird.
  by jay
So I went to the flea market and found this movie on a table with others assorted movies. I though hey for $2 this might be good. Well I'm happy to say it was worth it in a way. It was just your average ghost story. Nurses kill other nurse because she is going to rat them out about the human body smuggling ring, said dead nurse comes back on 7th day to get revenge, hilarity ensues, big plot twist. It just ends up being weird at some points like this one scene with "hair zombies". Yes I said it, hair zombies, and the nurse fights them off with a pregnancy test stick. Oh it's a load of fun. Then comes the plot twist and then the funniest thing I've seen in a horror movie 6 seconds before the credits roll. If you want to see it, get it.

3/5 It's good enough...
  by L. C. Tomas (Panama, Panama)
It's got the TnA, the gore and the really weird twist at the end you never see coming, so it gets 3 stars. But in my opinion there are far better movies from Thailand (mainly Shutter and Alone).



3/5 Sick Nurses.
  by Puzzle box (Kuwait)
This was a decent Thai horror flick, I'll be honest I haven't been really that impressed with any of the latest Thai horror films that I've seen in the past mainly because they were usually quite bad or because they just couldn't manage to create the bleak and dark atmosphere of dread that's prevalent in Japanese and Korean horror films, and they usually end up having hackneyed plots or pointless meanderings. This film actually wasn't that bad and it had a decent budget, and not to mention it has plenty of hot babes in tight nurse uniforms and the gore scenes were great but I felt like the plot wasn't going anywhere and it seemed abit too predictable. The film was set in a strange hospital that doesn't seem to specialize in patients, where a group of young (and hot!) nurses who along with a young doctor they all lust for, have been selling organs from the recently dead for fun and profit. One of the nurses is going to marry the doctor but when she finds out that he's having an affair with her sister, all hell breaks loose and the nurse ends up getting killed by her colleagues. It's ten minutes to midnight and all the nurses are getting ready to go home. But the vengeful spirit of the dead nurse has other plans. Yeah the film has alot of cliches and the acting was pretty bad but it was still halfway decent and it did provide some nice eye candy, one scene where one of the nurses gets strangled by long pieces of hair was ripped off from Exte which in my opinion was a better Asian horror flick than this. There were some nice gore scenes including a decapitation by handbag? and one of the twins forced to hack up her sister in a bath tub (nice!) and another scene where a bulimic nurse is forced to eat broken pieces of glass which results in the removal of her lower jaw with her tongue wagging before falling out, and eaten by a cat in the room(..followed by a flying dead fetus hurling into her mouth!). The film might have lots of blood and gore but it still felt like there was something missing. I don't know, I still thought it was average but I guess that some parts were enjoyable to a certain level, watch it for the blood and guts and attractive Asian women but don't bother finding a good storyline.


2/5 Could have been so much more than it is.
  by Robert P. Beveridge (Cleveland, OH)
Suay Laak Sai (Piraphan Laoyont and Thodsapol Siriwiwat, 2005)

Suay Laak Sai (English translation: Sick Nurses) is yet another average-at-best slasher flick. What's surprising about this one is that it originates in Thailand, which for years has been cranking out decidedly above-average horror films. Well, I guess everything has to come to an end sometime, and Southeast Asia's decades-long dominance in every aspect of horror film is starting to wear at the edges.

Plot: underhanded dealings at a small hospital result in the ghost of one of the ill-treated patients coming back to haunt the staff responsible for her demise. Or so they think. Could there be a more mundane explanation for the killings?

Yeah, that's it. Really, that's about as much plot as most recent Southeast Asian horror films have had, but what has always set them apart from the pack has been atmosphere, atmosphere, atmosphere. Where Laoyont and Siriwiat seem to have gone wrong was in assuming that one could simply shroud the entire movie in darkness and use that as an acceptable substitute for atmosphere; what it actually does is make everything still mediocre, but a lot harder to see. Which makes it a kind of tough sell when the big thing about your movie is that almost your entire cast is hot babes in skimpy nurse outfits. (Well, that and badly-CGIed death scenes, but you've got a while to go before you get to any of those.)

It's silly, and it's not entirely terrible if you're in the mood for an Asian deathfest, but it's surprisingly tame. Really only worth it for the cheesecake factor and as the subject of a drinking game that has yet (as far as I know) to be invented. **