Friday, March 28, 2025

 The Clinic (2011) – James Rabbitts.

This rewatchable Aussie horror finds a handsome road-tripping young couple fighting for their lives, trapped in an isolated outback dust-hole, which harbours an altogether sinister grottage industry. Violent, bloody, and rewardingly action-packed, The Clinic might just be the place to get your late night prescription of goosebumps filled! Performances are decent, with the distractingly beautiful bombshell Beth (Tabrett Bethell)providing a hugely sympathetic, gutsy glamour-puss protagonist. I wasn't always wholly convinced by the creepy clinic's macabre modus operandi, yet our voluptuous Valkyrie Beth's plucky heroism, the zippy pace, and robustly orchestrated terror tropes within the grimly appointed slaughterhouse/Clinic still proved compelling. While there is little doubt in my mind that the producers took liberties with the film's factual origins, I find a little fiction ultimately makes the truth that much more cinematic.





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