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Pathology (2008)

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Reviews Counted: 18

Fresh: 9

Rotten:9

Average Rating: 4.6/10

Rated: R [See Full Rating] for disturbing and perverse behavior throughout, including violence, gruesome images, strong sexual content, nudity, drug use and language

Runtime: 1 hr 33 mins

Genre: Dramas

Theatrical Release: Apr 18, 2008 Limited

Synopsis: The grisly and debauched film PATHOLOGY is a juiced-up medical thriller that plays like FLATLINERS with a mean streak and a broken moral compass. Writers Mark Nelvedine and Brian Taylor have created a premise allowing for CSI-like... The grisly and debauched film PATHOLOGY is a juiced-up medical thriller that plays like FLATLINERS with a mean streak and a broken moral compass. Writers Mark Nelvedine and Brian Taylor have created a premise allowing for CSI-like forensics along with heaps of sex and violence, truly making the most of the film's R-rating. A high-end exploitation film with good performances, PATHOLOGY is strong enough for horror fans and should go down smoothly for non-squeamish viewers with a taste for the dark side. Gifted med student Ted Grey (Milo Ventimiglia, HEROES) arrives at a major Washington, D.C., as an intern, where he is met with suspicion and resentment by the tightly knit group of fellow young pathologists-in-training. Soon, though, Ted is accepted into their circle---where they each take turns committing a murder so that the others may prove their mettle by figuring out the cause of death and celebrate with drug-fueled orgies among the dead bodies in the hospital. Things change for Ted, though, when his law student fiancée, Gwen (Alyssa Milano), moves to the city and helps to scare him straight. Soon, crazed Wallace Stevens-quoting leader Jake Gallo (Michael Weston) turns on Ted, putting both Ted's and Gwen's lives in serious jeopardy. The film opens with the Hippocratic Oath, and it's easy to tell that PATHOLOGY is going to show us doctors behaving badly, and the film is in fact almost gleefully immoral, with an attractive young cast that engages in almost any kind of forbidden behavior one can imagine. Showing that he isn't afraid to take on risky roles, Ventimiglia may surprise his young fans. Director Marc Schoelermann's taste for realism extends to several convincing corpses dissected in close-up, and could prove too much for some viewers, but for others this is the kind of film for which unrated releases were invented. [More]

Starring: Milo Ventimiglia, Alyssa Milano, Lauren Lee Smith, Dan Callahan

Starring: Milo Ventimiglia, Alyssa Milano, Lauren Lee Smith, Dan Callahan, Johnny Whitworth

Director: Marc Schoelermann

Director: Marc Schoelermann
Screenwriter: Brian Taylor, Mark Neveldine, Brian Taylor
Producer: Mark Neveldine, Brian Taylor, Skip Williamson, Gary Lucchesi, Tom Rosenberg, Richard Wright, Gary Gilbert
Composer: Johannes Kobilke, Robert Williamson
Studio: MGM

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To put things into perspective, the campier "Saw" films are all better -- and more clever ...

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10/08/08
Lucius Gore
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Comes off as a semi-absurd variant of the horror mystique cheating the potentials of impeccable production values.

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09/19/08
Jules Brenner
Cinema Signals
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Gleefully brimming with body parts and bad behavior, Pathology is a fun piece of flamboyant tastelessness.

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04/25/08
Mark Olsen
Los Angeles Times
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Existing somewhere in a world between Flatliners, Saw and Last Tango in Paris, this oversexed, over the top, underwritten medical horror flick won’t come anywhere near the success of those films.

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04/25/08
Pete Hammond
Boxoffice Magazine
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Like its characters, the pic is too clever for its own good, allowing the meticulously researched scenario to be undone by implausible behavior and gaping plot holes.

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04/23/08
Peter Debruge
Variety
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As dull as a conversation with a corpse.

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04/23/08
Frank Lovece
Film Journal International
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It's as if [director] Schoelermann and screenwriters Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor had more of a concept than a concrete idea.

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04/21/08
Jeffrey M. Anderson
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A particularly nasty slice of medical-themed horror, Marc Scholermann's film is the sort of thriller in which the tenderest scene depicts an autopsy.

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04/21/08
Frank Scheck
Hollywood Reporter
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Much like Crank, it's the guiltiest of guilty pleasures.

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04/21/08
Scott Tobias
Onion AV Club
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Even squeamish viewers are apt to be captivated by the tight, credible scripting; these 20-somethings talk and behave like today's irony-clad young sophisticates. And whatever your opinion of the subject matter, you can't fault the filmmaking.

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04/21/08
Sandy MacDonald
Boston Globe
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Not exactly a great movie, but it's sick, slick, and strange enough to warrant a 90-minute look.

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04/18/08
Scott Weinberg
FEARnet
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When a movie opens with the diner scene from When Harry Met Sally as performed by cadavers, and later proceeds to sex scenes involving scalpels and needles, the actual plot becomes inconsequential.

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04/18/08
Luke Y. Thompson
OC Weekly
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An inordinately sleazy medical thriller operating on the erroneous belief that the combination of hot sex and cold corpses constitutes a real turn-on.

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04/18/08
Frank Swietek
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This is the film that should have been called "Coma"

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04/18/08
Peter Sobczynski
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Slickly made but utterly gratuitous, this wannabe-edgy thriller was an odd choice for Ventimiglia to make during his first Heroes hiatus.

Full Review Source: Metromix.com | comment Comment
04/18/08
Geoff Berkshire
Metromix.com
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If you are a hardcore fan of films like FLATLINERS, I guarantee that you'll dig this flick... PATHOLOGY is really a gem that doesn't deserve to be overlooked.

Full Review Source: Bloody Disgusting | comment Comment
04/17/08
Brad Miska
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One of the more effective and chilling thrillers released this year.

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04/17/08
Todd Gilchrist
IGN Movies
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Medical thriller mixes extreme violence, sex.

Full Review Source: Common Sense | comment Comment
04/16/08
James Rocchi
Common Sense
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April 17, 2008: RT Interview: Milo Ventimiglia Gets Dark in Pathology, Talks Role In Neveldine & Taylor's Game
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December 18, 2007: Milo Ventimiglia Making the Most of Heroes' Downtime
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