Review: "Autopsy"

"Autopsy" was one of the selections in last years After Dark Horrorfest collection brought to home video. Being backlogged in my home library viewing and wanting to keep within the Halloween season, I decided to give the disc a spin.

The story revolves around a group of twenty something friends celebrating the Mardi Gras festivities and then embarking on a road trip only to find themselves in an accident on a lonely country road. Miraculously an ambulance happens by, searching for a lost patient, and offers to take the group in for observation and to call for a tow. Mayhem ensues as the group is hunted down, tortured and offed one by one, by the sadistic skeleton crew at Mercy Hospital. Your standard psychotic doctor scenario.

I want to start off by saying that this film had so much promise, I mean the atmosphere alone grabbed me from the beginning, but then it went downhill. The acting was over the top, most characters were shallow and self-centered, so I didn't care about their demise. Our doomed gang seemed to be roaming and running down the same two halls, shot at different angles. I might as well have been watching an episode of the "Flintstones" watching the same scenery going by as Fred ran through his house. All that aside, and on a positive note, the film does star Robert Patrick ("Terminator 2: Judgement Day") and reunited co-star Jenette Goldstein ("Terminator 2: Judgement Day", "Aliens") as the psychotic doctor and his ruthless nurse. The film does offer us some juicy...and I mean juicy, gore. Innards are literally strewn all about as our group fights to stay intact.

All in all, I enjoyed the "T2" reunion, of sorts, and it's definitely great fun for the gore hounds in all of us.