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I just saw this movie last night as a preview/focus group in El Segundo. I thought it was interesting, a little predictable. Lots of gore during the morgue scenes, open chest cavities, brains being taken out of skulls etc. Lots of sex scenes and drug usage. A new resident joins a hospital of other residents. They play a game killing people and try to figure out how the person was killed. The kill people they feel are just "bad" people. Their egos and attitudes inflate their heads and they think they are now gods. I started to wonder if what they did to the corpses really does happen in morgues? The main character gets in too deep from the start and has to figure a way out of this murderous plot. I liked the way it ended up. Acting and effects were good. Alyssa looks hot as usual.

This is interesting. I lower budget gorefest that I expected to love because it was so cheesy and instead end up liking because it is actually good! I love B rate cheese fest horror movies, and thought this would be another.... but.

This story is well written and not too far out of the realm of possibility. Sure at some point hospital security or what not would have noticed bodies being moved into an empty wing and incinerated yada yada yada. However, it is believable that some forensic doctors might go crazy and do some of the things in the movie.. especially with all the drugs/alcohol these doctors were consuming.

The acting is overall pretty good. The only performance that was kind of flat for me was the professor that mentors these students. The doctors themselves all did a fine job and were really believable.

Was there too much gore and gratuitous sex as others have mentioned?? Let's put it this way, there was enough gore, but not too much. Not for the squeamish, but not over the top either. And I only remember 3 sex scenes, one of which had no nudity whatsoever and the other 2 had quick flashes of breasts only. These scenes were instrumental to the plot and not there just to show nudity. There are a couple of scenes of dead women with their breasts exposed but what do you expect in a morgue? And it's nothing more than you would see on National Geographic or Discovery Channel.

Overall I give this movie props.... surprisingly. Now for the Gargamel Scale : 1 for nudity, 1 for story, 1 for acting, there were no car chases.. so 0 there, and no gunfire/explosions, but there was lots of killing... so I'll give a 0.5 there. That's 3.5 total for you non-math majors. That equates to a 7 on the IMDb 10 point scale.

This movie season is finally starting to get better!

A highly intelligent and superbly skilled pathologist, Dr. Ted Grey(Milo Ventimiglia)is working for Dr. Quentin Morris(John de Lancie)as an intern, having graduated from Harvard. He's drawn into the dangerous world of fellow pathologist Jake Gallo(Michael Weston, the real star of the film, I think)and his pack including student doctors, Juliette(Lauren Lee Smith, scorching the screen with her smoldering presence), Griffin(Johnny Whitworth), and Catherine(Mei Melançon). Gallo's brood have a gathering where they deduce how a victim died, their meeting place located in "the dungeon", an old surgical room cut off from the hospital. You see, Gallo has orchestrated a game for them to play where each member of this exclusive fraternity kills someone(a chosen victim they conclude won't be missed by anyone, the lower rungs of society)and as a group they come together to discover the method of execution. We follow Grey as he immerses himself in this group's devious activities, "dancing with the devil" you could say, becoming an addict in the process. Grey is supposed to marry his fiancé, Gwen(Alyssa Milano in a small but important role), whose father is an important man. Gallo steadily becomes a psychopath, going as far as to butcher prostitutes with a hatchet, including the disemboweling of one girl. Grey attempts to hide his friends' activities from Gwen who comes to NYC with him, preparing herself for the bar exam(she is currently on her way to graduating law school). Gallo is a serious threat to not only Grey, but Gwen as well. As you might expect, it gets out of hand when Juliette falls for Grey(they had begun a torrid affair, most of time humping like bunnies around dead bodies, such as their first joint crime scene together, and inside the dungeon as well)and Gallo doesn't accept her "betrayal" too well. Grey will make a decision, free himself from Gallo's clutches, or else, and we witness the repercussions. A major character emerges we aren't aware will have such an impact until the very end, Grey's friend, student, Ben Stravinsky(Keir O'Donnell), often the object of ridicule thanks to Gallo and his clan's bullying ways.

I think what ultimately makes PATHOLOGY work is the fact that who better to be the perfect serial killers than forensic pathologists who understand the human anatomy so well. We see here that brilliance can be an aphrodisiac(notice how Juliette remains really horny during the group's sessions) when it comes to "intellectual challenges" where Gallo finds an equal in Grey to stimulate his energies in the goal of outsmarting your "rival." It's essentially the cerebral alternative to "whose dick is the biggest" with the murders as a measuring stick. In choosing the victims, Gallo and company are actually mad scientists playing God in that they determine who doesn't deserve to live, and in doing so, have plenty of subjects for their game. Ventimiglia is pretty cold and hard to exactly latch onto as the story unfolds, and I, for one, couldn't feel a lick of concern for his plight because in associating with the likes of Gallo and Juliette, you kind of get what's coming to you. Grey voluntarily enters Gallo's flock, because of the thrill involved..like a moth to flame, Grey forwards ahead, even though we know he will be burned(maybe only minor burns, but burns nonetheless, which involves Gwen who doesn't deserve to be on Gallo's hitlist, but in attaching herself to who she thought was a good man with benefits, it places her in the lion's den even if she doesn't know it). I think many viewers will still find the ending satisfying, and it allows Stravinsky, who is constantly hounded by his peers, except Grey who is friendly and hospitable to him, some revenge. Weston is perfectly cast as the arrogant prick Gallo, very, very(extremely)confident in his mental ingenuity, acumen, and talents as a top pathologist in his field. Despite that genius, however, he's still a sociopath who relishes the art of killing and the ability to baffle his team. Ventimiglia and Smith have some pretty passionate sex scenes together. Also included is some lesbian kissing and groping between Juliette and Catherine. We witness how this game turns many of the members on, the acts they commit providing an erotic charge..real creepy stuff. As expected, there's some potent anatomy scenes where bodies are cut open(and upon)so a word of warning. I'll make no bones about it, this is a pretty twisted movie, with a really sick premise. I'm not sure if anyone else agrees, but I think there's an evident homoeroticism present when Gallo and Grey are alone in many of their scenes.

I like tasteless movies, sexy movies, twisted horror movies and I also liked Crank, which was penned by the writers of Pathology. So, I was looking forward to this one.

If you imagine the Lost Boys, crossed with CSI, Saw, throw in some Cronebourg type sex and that should give you some idea of the concept behind Pathology. Sound good doesn't it? Now imagine a team of brilliant young doctors who are also serial thrill-killers who go into a psycho-sexual frenzy when performing post mortems on their colleagues victims. Not terribly plausible you may think.

Now can you imagine an even more brilliant young doctor joining the hospital, he's arrogant, he's the top guy from Harvard, he's loaded, and within minutes he's a serial thrill-killer who goes into a psycho-sexual frenzy when performing post mortems on his colleagues victims. Having trouble? Incredibly, it's even more ridiculous than it sounds. But completely unbelievable is not completely unforgivable.

My real moan is that no one is likable, and there is clearly no attempt to make anyone remotely sympathetic. So the reasoning behind purpose this can only be for the gore and the kinky sex. This would make it an exploitation movie, which I normally love.

So what's the problem? Well, it's the "level of unlike-ability". Everyone is so detestable, that it goes beyond the type of movie where you're waiting patiently for characters to be get naked or be bumped off. Here they take you deep into the realm of the really bloody irritating. Everything about them makes you hate them so much that their faces become more and more punchable as the minutes crawl by. Their witless babbling and pseudo-philosophy grates on you so much that their frenzied pervy couplings just make you glad they've shut up for a minute.

Borders on unwatchable.

"Pathology" goes where most American mainstream thrillers fear to tread. It is thoroughly distasteful, edgy and politically incorrect; it is also extremely well-crafted, with effective story twists, and pulls you in. The director, Marc Schölermann, gives us an ominous, sinister New York, though much of the film was shot in Los Angeles! Milo Ventimiglia successfully breaks out of his relatively clean Peter Petrelli / "Heroes" image and gets his hands dirty, while Lauren Lee Smith is one of the most dangerously exciting women I've seen in any film lately. It's a pretty awesome trip - but not for the easily offended. *** out of 4.

OK, this is one of the really bad movies. It starts like an amateur porn with the inevitable porn sentence: girl to boy: "f*ck me please". And the quality is not getting much higher. Milo f*cks around, drugs around and kills and protects killers and puts the life of his fiancé on risk and when she gives him the chance to make a change, he lies to her and exploits her faith into him - thats all OK, it's Milo, it's the good guy, he can do all of this because he is a doctor. And that is what really annoys me: the ideology of the movie. The story is not realistic and according to it the police of New York must be blind and stupid because the crimes are so evident, that a 5 years old kid would find out who the murderers are after 1 day maximum. But who cares, lots of b-movies are stupid but enjoyable. Not this one. The most unpleasant slimy people are the elite in medicine and life and dead of other people is just a game. Being responsible must be the contrary of desirable. Mix it up with gore, gore is fashionable. All the pictures reminded me to "CSI New York", the pictures in the pathology as well as the view on the city, a show that bores me, but trust me, it is much better than this movie. Mix it with sex, sex sells. You have nothing to say, put a puppet of a nude Alyssa Milano in,and the guys will watch it. The cheap trick to get money for a horror movie at the level of an amateur porn. Very disappointing.

This movie was so bad that I just had to register on IMDb to set things straight. For the most I trust the average rating here. Seems to be correct but this one was off.

Now the movie was quite a disappointment. To me its a designer movie that did swap a real story for some macabre scenes. The plot is so thin, and if you start to think about the storyline for just a second, then it all falls apart.

The whole idea of these "rogue" doctors that get high on playing with murder and corpses is a joke. It just doesn't make sense. They are all incredible childish, the dialog is like children trying to talk each other into stupid stuff just by using the apparently magic sentence " I dare you "....

So just by saying "I dare you" the leading character showes his promising career down the drain with eyes wide open. Its so thin, boring and predictable that its a mystery to me how this movie got the rating it got here.

Opening extremely effectively with a section of the Hipoccratic oath this film concerns itself with an excellent medical student Ted (Milo Ventimiglia) who finds himself steadily drawn further and further into a group with murder as a hobby.

I found this a pleasingly disturbing film.

The themes running through it were intense and adult - sex and death confronted repeatedly from many different angles (so to speak). Immediately it confronts the viewer with the harsh, hideous realities of death, then sets about vividly preying upon fears the world has about what happens to the dead at the hands of the living. Then it smoothly descends into something more disturbing still - a comment on the arrogance of doctors and the living in general.

The acting here really is pretty good, especially from Michael Weston and it has to be to make any of these totally repellent, morally void human beings(or morally hypocritical in the case of Ted) charming or likable

It succeeds in that I was carried along by the film but by the end I felt a bit dirty.

There is just little light or moral centre in this film and whilst that isn't necessarily a drawback, in the sense that the characters seemed a little bit more real in this than they might have otherwise it makes the whole experience heavy going because there is no one at all to root for.

I couldn't tell if this was going to be really stupid or really good... It was neither. Truth be told, I would have enjoyed a stupid zombie flick more, but the plot was pretty original and the style was great- two rarities for horror flicks these days.

The movie was created to be disturbing in every way and they pulled it off. The imagery and the attitudes were gratuitous, violent and dark. Even the nude scenes were disgusting- either violent sado-masochistic sex or corpses having its guts pulled out (haha... You can always lure people in by telling them there's a full frontal shot of Alyssa Milano, then watch their horrified/disgusted expression when they see how the scene goes)

Unlike most horror flicks these days, the ending seemed inspired... even if a bit predictable. The weakness is in the beginning I think. The character "turns evil" just a little too easily. I can buy how he'd kill his first victim for the slippery slope, but I think he jumped Juliet's bones just a bit to quickly for believability- if we are to be convinced of his decency before meeting the others. But I understand... Too much build-up makes a movie too long. Where they really needed the extra time was in the prelude to the ending when he blows up most of the bad guys... That scene was stupid and needs far more explanation.