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Sick Nurses
Movie

Sick Nurses

2007 • Unknown

Woke Score
1
out of 10

Plot

At a Thai hospital, a doctor and his seven nubile nurses engage in the sale of dead bodies. Jealousy causes one of the nurses to threaten to blow the whistle on the practice, so the others murder her. Soon the spirit of the slain nurse seeks revenge. In flashbacks we see the events leading up to the murder, and realize the full range of relationships between the main characters.

Overall Series Review

Sick Nurses is a 2007 Thai horror-comedy centered on a doctor and his staff of nurses who engage in black market organ sales. When one nurse threatens to expose their criminal operation, her colleagues murder her. The vengeful ghost of the slain nurse returns after seven days to carry out a campaign of brutal, personalized revenge against the doctor and the six nurses responsible for her death. The film operates as an imaginative slasher movie that leans heavily into local spiritual beliefs about the dead. The narrative is driven by classic human vices like greed, lust, and jealousy rather than social commentary.

Categorical Breakdown

Identity Politics1/10

The movie is a Thai production with an entirely Asian cast, eliminating any vilification of whiteness or race-swapping. The conflict is based purely on universal human greed and betrayal, specifically black market organ sales, not intersectional hierarchy. Character value is defined by their immense moral corruption or their victimhood.

Oikophobia2/10

The central conflict involves corrupt institutions—a hospital and medical staff—engaged in crime. This highlights institutional corruption, but the film's horror mechanism relies on and validates a piece of Thai folklore, the spirit's seven-day return for vengeance. The narrative does not frame the home culture or ancestors as fundamentally corrupt, instead rooting the supernatural justice in a local tradition.

Feminism2/10

Female characters are depicted as vain, ditzy, and obsessed with the main male doctor, which leads to murder and their own downfall. This directly opposes the 'Girl Boss' or Mary Sue trope. The male character is a criminal ringleader, not emasculated. The women are punished for their greed and toxic jealousy over a man, not celebrated for careerism or independence.

LGBTQ+1/10

The primary plot engine is a traditional love triangle involving a doctor, his lover, and her sister, who is pregnant with his child. Sexual identity is not centered as a theme. The narrative focuses on heterosexual betrayal and revenge, with no presence of gender ideology or deconstruction of the male-female pair.

Anti-Theism1/10

The entire horror plot is founded on the spiritual certainty that a murdered person's ghost will return to enact justice on the living. This transcendent moral law and the spiritual consequences for murder and greed are the narrative's foundation. Morality is objective and supernaturally enforced.