Sick Nurses

A Cult-Ready Feast of Gore, J-Horror Tropes, and Ghostly Vengeance.

“Sick Nurses” is one of those films that’s so bad it’s good, a little-known 2007 Thai-horror Z-moviedirected by Piraphan Laoyont and Thodsapol Siriwiwat.

Don’t be fooled by the poster or the plot, because nothing will prepare you for what you’re about to witness.

It opens in a Bangkok hospital where seven sexy nurses and a doctor run a side business selling corpses on the black market. An illicit affair soon curdles into revenge—and as everyone knows, you should never cross women who have easy access to scalpels and dark secrets.

Beneath its Z-movie façade lies a surprisingly sharp slice of social commentary, offering both excessive fun and a perfect breeding ground for a cult fanbase. This scrappy indie gem deserves far more attention than it’s received.

Laoyont and Siriwiwat craft a twisted psychological horror exploring the tyranny of beauty standards, toxic female friendships, and human fragilities such as eating disorders, body dysmorphia, and the marginalisation of trans identities.

It also glances at the poverty–crime trap and the abuses committed by those in positions of authority. “Sick Nurses” doesn’t stand out for innovation, but it certainly knows how to blend comedy, slasherbrutality, torture porn, and body horror.

The result recalls the cinematic excess of ‘70s–‘80s exploitation, fused with what Asian cinema does best—unapologetically supernatural horror. Imagine the sleazy neon grindhouse of cheap slashers colliding with the brooding vengeance ghosts of J-Horror.

This is an outrageously unhinged feast for the senses, crammed with gleefully pilfered J-Horror tropespushed to absurd extremes, hilariously spiteful spectral catfights, top-tier offbeat gore, slick recurring motifs, and some unexpectedly gorgeous cinematography.

“Sick Nurses” is one of a kind for genre lovers with a grotesque sense of humour…particularly those who relish gore gags and absurd melodrama in bloody-soak delirium.