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* AssholeVictim: A strange one where we learn how unpleasant a person is after we see them suffer. [[spoiler:It turns out the old man is a callous jerk who cuts another patients life support after having his nightmares.]]
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* NoEnding: The movie ends with the old man waking up from his final nightmare and [[spoiler: killing his roommate by cutting off his loud life support before falling back asleep likely to have more nightmares.]]
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* DrippingDisturbance: The old man's time in the waking world is punctuated by an odd dripping sound. [[spoiler: At the end, the drip turns out to be coming from his room-mate's IV bag, which the old man callously turns off so he can get some sleep.]]
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* DrippingDisturbance: The old man's time in the waking world is punctuated by an odd dripping sound. [[spoiler: At the end, the drip turns out to be coming from his room-mate's IV bag, which bag. Even though his room mate is on life support, the old man callously turns off the IV so he can get some sleep.]]
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** The old man's final nightmare is a reference to the Russian novella ''Viy'', which also features a demon whose can see all, but needs help opening his eyelids (much like the X-Ray machine monster).
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** The old man's final nightmare is a reference to the Russian novella ''Viy'', which also features a demon whose eyes can see all, but needs help opening his eyelids (much like the X-Ray machine monster).
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* HopeSpot: In the final nightmare, the patient is seemingly safe behind his protective circle. Then one of the nurses calls in the radiologist, a terrifying robot whose X-ray gaze breaks through the spell and allows the other demon doctors to attack.
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** The old man's final nightmare is a reference to the Russian novella ''The Viy'', which also features a demon whose can see all, but needs help opening his eyelids (much like the X-Ray machine monster).
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** The old man's final nightmare is a reference to the Russian novella ''The Viy'', ''Viy'', which also features a demon whose can see all, but needs help opening his eyelids (much like the X-Ray machine monster).
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* ImAHumanitarian: The opening nightmare has a group of surgeons acting like they're sitting down to a dinner, implying they're planning to eat the unfortunate old man.
* MedicalHorror: The old man has a long string of hospital-themed nightmares.
* MedicalHorror: The old man has a long string of hospital-themed nightmares.
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* ImAHumanitarian: The opening nightmare has a group of surgeons acting like they're sitting down to a dinner, implying they're planning to eat the unfortunate old man.
man who is their patient.
* MedicalHorror: Theold man has short consists of a long string of hospital-themed nightmares.nightmares being had by an elderly patient.
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* TooManyMouths: The Dentist monster in the final nightmare not only has a gruesome LampreyMouth, but little mouths where its eyes and ears should be.
* TooManyMouths: The Dentist monster in the final nightmare not only has a gruesome LampreyMouth, but little mouths where its eyes and ears should be.
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* EyelessFace: The third nightmare has an enormous monster that's just a disembodied eye floating above the hospital. It's implied the eyes the doctor keeps in his office [[MonsterIsAMommy are the monster's offspring]].
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* FacelessEye: The third nightmare has an enormous monster that's just a disembodied eye floating above the hospital. It's implied the eyes the doctor keeps in his office [[MonsterIsAMommy are the monster's offspring]].
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* CouldntFindAPen: In the last nightmare, the old man is forced to draw a protective circle in ''his own blood'' to save himself from a pack of demonic doctors.
* CreepyPhysical: The exam in the old man's second nightmare includes [[PalattePropping having his mouth forced open]], his pants pulled down, getting [[AssShove an enema]], getting stabbed in the ass with a needle, and being strangled by a sphygmomanometer.
* CreepyPhysical: The exam in the old man's second nightmare includes [[PalattePropping having his mouth forced open]], his pants pulled down, getting [[AssShove an enema]], getting stabbed in the ass with a needle, and being strangled by a sphygmomanometer.
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* CouldntFindAPen: In the last nightmare, the old man is forced to draw [[GeometricMagic a protective circle circle]] in ''his own blood'' to save himself from a pack of demonic doctors.
* CreepyPhysical: The exam in the old man's second nightmare includes[[PalattePropping [[PalatePropping having his mouth forced open]], open with a tongue depressor]], his pants pulled down, getting [[AssShove an enema]], getting stabbed in the ass with a needle, and being strangled by a sphygmomanometer.
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* MoodWhiplash: The final nightmare begins with the apparently-dead old man in a casket, covered in lit candles, with hospital staff solemnly gathered around him. Then they burst out cheerfully singing "HappyBirthdayToYou" to the head doctor, who blows out the candles. Then the old man wakes up with a fright to find himself alone in a cathedral-like space.
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* OurVampiresAreDifferent: The last nightmare features a sinister, fanged nurse who's drinking from some of the samples from the blood lab.
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* BlackComedy: There's a few gags to be found, though very grim ones (like the hapless other patients briefly seen in the first nightmare, including one that's [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe a bloodied upper torso of a man crawling across the floor]]).
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* BlackComedy: There's a few gags to be found, though very grim ones (like [[FreezeFrameBonus the hapless other patients briefly seen in the first nightmare, nightmare]], including one that's [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe a bloodied upper torso of a man crawling across the floor]]).
* TheCobblersChildrenHaveNoShoes: The last nightmare features a psychiatric doctor who's clearly off his rocker himself, wearing an untied straitjacket and wielding [[DangerouslyCloseShave a cut-throat razor]].
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** The old man's final nightmare is a reference to the Russian novella ''The Viy'', which also features a demon whose can see all, but needs help opening his eyelids (much like the X-Ray Machine machine monster).
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* BlackComedy: There's a few gags to be found, though very grim ones (like the hapless other patients briefly seen in the first nightmare, including one that's [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe a bloodied upper torso of a man crawling across the floor]]).
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* CouldntFindAPen: In the last nightmare, the old man is forced to draw a protective circle in ''his own blood'' to save himself from the demonic doctors.
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* CouldntFindAPen: In the last nightmare, the old man is forced to draw a protective circle in ''his own blood'' to save himself from the a pack of demonic doctors.doctors.
* CreepyPhysical: The exam in the old man's second nightmare includes [[PalattePropping having his mouth forced open]], his pants pulled down, getting [[AssShove an enema]], getting stabbed in the ass with a needle, and being strangled by a sphygmomanometer.
* CreepyPhysical: The exam in the old man's second nightmare includes [[PalattePropping having his mouth forced open]], his pants pulled down, getting [[AssShove an enema]], getting stabbed in the ass with a needle, and being strangled by a sphygmomanometer.
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* EyeScream: The old man's second nightmare ends with his eyes falling out. In the third nightmare, the hospital's eye doctor
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* EyeScream: EyelessFace: The third nightmare has an enormous monster that's just a disembodied eye floating above the hospital. It's implied the eyes the doctor keeps in his office [[MonsterIsAMommy are the monster's offspring]].
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** The old man's second nightmare ends with his eyes falling out. In the third nightmare, the hospital's eyedoctordoctor keeps a jar of eyes, and ''pins'' them to the old man's face.
** One of the doctors in the last nightmare is an oculist who has an enormous eye sticking up from where his neck would be. He proceeds to get glass in it, and it turns purple like it's bleeding internally.
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** The old man's second nightmare ends with his eyes falling out. In the third nightmare, the hospital's eye
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** In the second nightmare, the waiting room patients include [[Literature/TheOdyssey a cyclops who's been stabbed in the eye]] and {{Medusa}}.
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** In the second nightmare, the waiting room patients include [[Literature/TheOdyssey a cyclops who's been stabbed in the eye]] and {{Medusa}}.{{Medusa}}, who's [[TakenForGranite petrified an unfortunate janitor]].
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''Clinic'' is a 1993 Russian animated short by Alexander Bubnov. It concerns a series of horrifying nightmares had by an old man during an overnight stay in a hospital, where he's menaced by a variety of demented doctors, nasty nurses, and sinister surgeons.
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* CatapultNightmare: The old man wakes up screaming several times throughout the short.
* CouldntFindAPen: In the last nightmare, the old man is forced to draw a protective circle in ''his own blood'' to save himself from the demonic doctors.
* DrippingDisturbance: The old man's time in the waking world is punctuated by an odd dripping sound. [[spoiler: At the end, the drip turns out to be coming from his room-mate's IV bag, which the old man callously turns off so he can get some sleep.]]
* EyeScream: The old man's second nightmare ends with his eyes falling out. In the third nightmare, the hospital's eye doctor
* ImAHumanitarian: The opening nightmare has a group of surgeons acting like they're sitting down to a dinner, implying they're planning to eat the unfortunate old man.
* MedicalHorror: The old man has a long string of hospital-themed nightmares.
* NunsAreSpooky: One of the demon nurses in the last nightmare is wearing what looks like a nun's habit.
* ShoutOut:
** In the second nightmare, the waiting room patients include [[Literature/TheOdyssey a cyclops who's been stabbed in the eye]] and {{Medusa}}.
** The old man's final nightmare is a reference to the Russian novella ''The Viy'', which also features a demon whose can see all, but needs help opening his eyelids (much like the X-Ray Machine monster).
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!!Tropes:
* CatapultNightmare: The old man wakes up screaming several times throughout the short.
* CouldntFindAPen: In the last nightmare, the old man is forced to draw a protective circle in ''his own blood'' to save himself from the demonic doctors.
* DrippingDisturbance: The old man's time in the waking world is punctuated by an odd dripping sound. [[spoiler: At the end, the drip turns out to be coming from his room-mate's IV bag, which the old man callously turns off so he can get some sleep.]]
* EyeScream: The old man's second nightmare ends with his eyes falling out. In the third nightmare, the hospital's eye doctor
* ImAHumanitarian: The opening nightmare has a group of surgeons acting like they're sitting down to a dinner, implying they're planning to eat the unfortunate old man.
* MedicalHorror: The old man has a long string of hospital-themed nightmares.
* NunsAreSpooky: One of the demon nurses in the last nightmare is wearing what looks like a nun's habit.
* ShoutOut:
** In the second nightmare, the waiting room patients include [[Literature/TheOdyssey a cyclops who's been stabbed in the eye]] and {{Medusa}}.
** The old man's final nightmare is a reference to the Russian novella ''The Viy'', which also features a demon whose can see all, but needs help opening his eyelids (much like the X-Ray Machine monster).
