Medical Mayhem | Offscreen
Hospitals: we'd rather get out of them than wind up in them. Painful examinations, misdiagnosis and medical blunders: the corridors of the medical institutions are full of dread of illness and death. Genre filmmakers are eager to tap into this fear. The little known Canadian thriller “Terminal Choice” is a wet dream for technophobes and excels in an extremely misanthropic view on the medical profession. Michael Crichton (“Westworld” and writer of “Jurassic Park”) adapts Robin Cook's book “Coma” as a nightmarish hitchcockian fantasy: at its release hailed as an instant classic, but nowadays best watched as a thrilling yet pretty silly curio from the 1970's.
Terminal Choice
The near future: a HAL-like computer coordinates the patient care in a new, high-tec clinic. Modern technology! Whatever could go wrong?