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** Steven later finds Melissa's dismembered head, limbs, and organs in a cabinet.



* Evelyn rotting to nothing by "[[EldritchAbomination the Evil]]."

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* Evelyn rotting to nothing by "[[EldritchAbomination the Evil]]."Evil]]," which then proceeds to chase Steven.
-->'''Evelyn/Evil:''' [[VoiceOfTheLegion Steven, I want you. I've always wanted you. We all do. They're all here, everyone who's died, everyone who's responsible. It's your turn.]] ''[gives chase]''

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* Right afterwards, one of the patients approaches the desk and gives a very seductive smile to the receptionist. He smiles back like it’s nothing, but then he hears several voices, and more patients break through the windows behind him. They end up stabbing him through the neck, with the pencils he'd just sharpened. It’s not helped by the patient's SlasherSmile and the receptionist's gurgling and gasps for air.
** The patients then break into the operating room, overpowering Vanacutt and his nurses. They drown one of the nurses, strip another, clearly intending to rape her, and drag Vanacutt to the operating table. The patients end up stealing the camera, filming themselves operating on Vanacutt and one of the nurses.
** The FiveSecondForeshadowing for this is also quite creepy; they hear the patients laughing and screaming first. They look up... and see dozens of hands pressed and bashing against the skylight above them like something out of ''Film/{{Poltergeist|1982}}''.
* Stephen Price's EstablishingCharacterMoment at the start of the film literally has him playing with the line between "safe" thrills and "dangerous" thrills with the grand opening of his newest roller coaster, Terror Incognita, labeled as "the only rollercoaster to the... hereafter." As the reporter notes that it looks like a generic roller coaster and asks, "What's the gimmick?", Price replies... "Ever seen one that starts at the top?"
** The reporter, the cameraman, and Price all board an elevator that leads to the start of the roller coaster... and [[TemptingFate just as Price is talking about how he tested everything to be 100% safe, as well as how in the fifteen year history of Price Amusements, they have yet to lose a single customer, and overall that everything's fine...]] [[ElevatorFailure WHAM!!! The elevator seems to suddenly stop. Then Price tries pressing the Alarm Button, to no avail, then the safety cable snaps, potentially sending the elevator careening towards the ground. Price says that this isn't supposed to happen...]] [[SubvertedTrope And he's right. It turns out that the screens at the top and bottom of the elevator that appeared to show what's happening outside are actually tv projection screens and the whole elevator was designed to mimic Elevator Failure.]] The three exit safely to the main roller coaster entrance, where Price says "From here on, it gets really scary."
** The Terror Incognita roller coaster itself... pretty ominous looking for a roller coaster... and Price manages to make it look scarier... not just with fog tunnels. At one point, a section of railing appears to snap out of place, sending an entire train off the track. One of the technicians calls over to Price saying something along the lines of Houston, we have a problem. [[BaitAndSwitch The problem he was talking about is actually some guy named "Passenger Six" losing his arm, but everyone is fine.]] "Passenger Six " is actually a dummy and the coaster is actually rigged with breakaway track meant to fling off ''a train full of dummies'', leading you to (logically) believe that you're about to die horribly before the "broken" track slides back into place, allowing the train full of real people to continue over that stretch of track unharmed.
* As Stephen Price puts it best, No cheap thrills, genuine journey to the brink of madness.
* The scene where Melissa finds herself videotaping a ghostly vivisection in an empty room, and then senses something behind her. She turns, sees a shadowy figure peer around a corner way down the hallway, and in the blink of an eye, it's right there in her face, teeth, blood and all.
** The worst part prior to the creepy-jittery ghost suddenly attacking her? She only sees the vivisection ''on camera''. The room seems empty and abandoned, but through the screen of the camera, the doctors and patient can be clearly seen... and then the doctors ''[[OhCrap turn to look at her]]''.

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* Right afterwards, one of the patients approaches the desk and gives a very seductive smile to the receptionist. He smiles back like it’s it's nothing, but then he hears several voices, and more patients break through the windows behind him. They end up stabbing him through the neck, with the pencils he'd just sharpened. It’s It's not helped by the patient's SlasherSmile and the receptionist's gurgling and gasps for air.
** The patients then break into the operating room, overpowering Vanacutt and his nurses. They drown one of the nurses, strip another, clearly intending another with the clear intent to rape her, and drag Vanacutt to the operating table. The patients end up stealing the camera, filming themselves operating on Vanacutt and one of the nurses.
** The FiveSecondForeshadowing for this is also quite creepy; they creepy. They hear the patients laughing and screaming first. They look up... and see dozens of hands pressed and bashing against the skylight above them like something out of ''Film/{{Poltergeist|1982}}''.
* Stephen Price's Steven's EstablishingCharacterMoment at the start of the film literally has him playing with the line between "safe" thrills and "dangerous" thrills with the grand opening of his newest roller coaster, Terror Incognita, labeled as "the only rollercoaster to the... hereafter." As the reporter notes that it looks like a generic roller coaster and asks, asks "What's the gimmick?", Price replies... Steven replies, "Ever seen one that starts at the top?"
** The reporter, the cameraman, and Price Steven all board an elevator that leads to the start of the roller coaster... and coaster. And [[TemptingFate just as Price Steven is talking about how he tested everything to be 100% safe, as well as how in the fifteen year history of Price Amusements, they have yet to lose a single customer, and overall that everything's fine...]] [[ElevatorFailure WHAM!!! The elevator seems to suddenly stop. Then Price stops. Steven tries pressing the Alarm Button, "Alarm" button, to no avail, then the safety cable snaps, potentially sending the elevator careening towards the ground. Price says Steven cries that this isn't supposed to happen...]] [[SubvertedTrope And he's right. It turns out that the screens at the top and bottom of the elevator that appeared to show what's happening outside are actually tv projection screens and the whole elevator was designed to mimic Elevator Failure.]] The three exit safely to the main roller coaster entrance, where Price Steven says "From here on, it gets really ''really'' scary."
** The Terror Incognita roller coaster itself... pretty ominous looking itself. Pretty ominous-looking for a roller coaster... coaster, and Price Steven manages to make it look scarier... not just with fog tunnels. At one point, a section of railing appears to snap out of place, sending an entire train off the track. One of the technicians calls over to Price Steven, saying something along the lines of Houston, we have a problem. [[BaitAndSwitch The problem he was he's talking about is actually some guy named "Passenger Six" losing his arm, but everyone is fine.]] "Passenger Six " Six" is actually a dummy dummy, and the coaster is actually rigged with a breakaway track meant to fling off ''a train full of dummies'', leading you to (logically) believe that you're about to die horribly before the "broken" track slides back into place, allowing the train full of real people to continue over that stretch of track unharmed.
* As Stephen Price ** Steven puts it best, best:
--->'''Steven:'''
No cheap thrills, genuine thrills. Genuine journey to the brink of madness.
* The scene where Melissa finds herself videotaping a ghostly vivisection in an empty room, and then senses something behind her. She turns, sees a shadowy figure peer around a corner way down the hallway, and in the blink of an eye, it's right there in her face, teeth, blood blood, and all.
** The worst part prior to the creepy-jittery ghost suddenly attacking her? She only sees the vivisection ''on camera''. The room seems empty and abandoned, but through the screen of the camera, camera's screen, the doctors and patient can be clearly seen... and then the doctors ''[[OhCrap turn to look at her]]''.



* The scene where Steven Price discovers that another character's ''face'' and the ''insides'' of his head are ''missing'' (this discovery is accompanied by OminousLatinChanting, of course). To make matters worse, he sees the unnaturally twitchy ghost doctor taunting him with his large bloodied knife on surveillance footage. See the scene [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYhhxqkd0Vw here]].
* The nightmare sequence in which Steven Price is in the "saturation chamber". First, his head is tightly wrapped and dunked in water by twitching creepy ghosts. Then, he sees a beautiful young woman submerged in water who starts bleeding from the mouth before revealing her NightmareFace (which consists of [[http://www.hollywoodhistoryonline.com/zencart/index.php?main_page=popup_image_additional&pID=358&pic=8&products_image_large_additional=images/HauntedHill_06.JPG smooth-ish skin where her eyes and nose should be and a GIANT gaping mouth]]) while ''screaming'' at him. Finally, he is exposed to his wife holding his (still alive!) severed head while laughing evilly. See the creepy scene [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nI7w-5S2rrA here]] (NSFW because of brief nudity, also seizure warning).
* Steven Price's wife rotting to nothing by "the Evil."
* Nobody ever seems to mention when Sara has her own encounter with a spirit in the basement. To basically explain: Sara looks for Eddie after she walked away from him when he figured out that she was actually an assistant named Sara Wolfe and not Jennifer Jenzen. At first, she gets annoyed, thinking he's pranking or making fun of her. Then she finds him jumping drowning in a tank filled with what looks like blood. When she begins to panic and try to help him out, she keeps calling his name. Until she ends up hearing ''the real Eddie'' in front of her. So [[OhCrap who is in the tank?]] Cue Sara almost being pulled in by the ''thing'' and Eddie realizing she's being attacked.
* The post-credit scene suggests that Steven and Evelyn Price have met with [[AndIMustScream a fate worse than death]]. That the scene is played as completely silent makes it even more unsettling.

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* The scene where Steven Price discovers that another character's ''face'' and the ''insides'' of his head are ''missing'' (this discovery is accompanied by OminousLatinChanting, of course). To make matters worse, he sees the unnaturally twitchy unnaturally-twitchy ghost doctor taunting him with his large bloodied knife on surveillance footage. See the scene [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYhhxqkd0Vw here]].
* The nightmare sequence in which Steven Price is in the "saturation chamber". First, his head is tightly wrapped and dunked in water by twitching creepy ghosts. Then, he sees a beautiful young woman submerged in water who starts bleeding from the mouth before revealing her NightmareFace (which consists of [[http://www.hollywoodhistoryonline.com/zencart/index.php?main_page=popup_image_additional&pID=358&pic=8&products_image_large_additional=images/HauntedHill_06.JPG smooth-ish skin where her eyes and nose should be and a GIANT gaping mouth]]) while ''screaming'' at him. Finally, he is exposed to his wife holding his (still alive!) severed head while laughing evilly. See the creepy scene [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nI7w-5S2rrA here]] (NSFW because of brief nudity, also seizure warning).
* Steven Price's wife Evelyn rotting to nothing by "the Evil."[[EldritchAbomination the Evil]]."
* Nobody ever seems to mention when Sara has her own Sara's encounter with a spirit in the basement. To basically explain: Sara looks for Eddie after she walked walks away from him when he figured figures out that she was she's actually an assistant named Sara Wolfe and not Jennifer Jenzen. At first, she gets annoyed, thinking he's pranking or making fun of her. Then she finds him jumping drowning in into a tank filled with what looks like blood. When she begins to panic and try to help him out, she keeps calling his name. Until she ends up hearing ''the real Eddie'' in front of her. So [[OhCrap who is in the tank?]] Cue Sara almost being pulled in by the ''thing'' ''thing'', and Eddie realizing she's being attacked.
* The post-credit scene suggests that Steven and Evelyn Price have met with [[AndIMustScream a fate worse than death]]. That the scene is played as completely silent makes it even more unsettling.unsettling.
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* Nobody ever seems to mention when Sara has her own encounter with a spirit in the basement. To basically explain: [[spoiler: Sara looks for Eddie after she walked away from him when he figured out that she was actually an assistant named Sara Wolfe and not Jennifer Jenzen. At first, she gets annoyed, thinking he's pranking or making fun of her. Then she finds him jumping drowning in a tank filled with what looks like blood. When she begins to panic and try to help him out, she keeps calling his name.]] Until she ends up hearing [[spoiler: ''the real Eddie'' in front of her. So [[OhCrap who is in the tank?]] Cue Sara almost being pulled in by the ''thing'' and Eddie realizing she's being attacked]].

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* Nobody ever seems to mention when Sara has her own encounter with a spirit in the basement. To basically explain: [[spoiler: Sara looks for Eddie after she walked away from him when he figured out that she was actually an assistant named Sara Wolfe and not Jennifer Jenzen. At first, she gets annoyed, thinking he's pranking or making fun of her. Then she finds him jumping drowning in a tank filled with what looks like blood. When she begins to panic and try to help him out, she keeps calling his name.]] Until she ends up hearing [[spoiler: ''the real Eddie'' in front of her. So [[OhCrap who is in the tank?]] Cue Sara almost being pulled in by the ''thing'' and Eddie realizing she's being attacked]].attacked.
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** The reporter, the cameraman, and Price all board an elevator that leads to the start of the roller coaster... and [[TemptingFate just as Price is talking about how he tested everything to be 100% safe, as well as how in the fifteen year history of Price Amusements, they have yet to lose a single customer, and overall that everything's fine...]] [[ElevatorFailure WHAM!!! The elevator seems to suddenly stop. Then Price tries pressing the Alarm Button, to no avail, then the safety cable snaps, potentially sending the elevator careening towards the ground. Price says that this isn't supposed to happen...]] [[SubvertedTrope And he's right. It turns out that the screens at the top and bottom of the elevator that appeared to show what's happening outside are actually tv projection screens and the whole elevator was designed to mimic ElevatorFailure.]] The three exit safely to the main roller coaster entrance, where Price says "From here on, it gets really scary."

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** The reporter, the cameraman, and Price all board an elevator that leads to the start of the roller coaster... and [[TemptingFate just as Price is talking about how he tested everything to be 100% safe, as well as how in the fifteen year history of Price Amusements, they have yet to lose a single customer, and overall that everything's fine...]] [[ElevatorFailure WHAM!!! The elevator seems to suddenly stop. Then Price tries pressing the Alarm Button, to no avail, then the safety cable snaps, potentially sending the elevator careening towards the ground. Price says that this isn't supposed to happen...]] [[SubvertedTrope And he's right. It turns out that the screens at the top and bottom of the elevator that appeared to show what's happening outside are actually tv projection screens and the whole elevator was designed to mimic ElevatorFailure.Elevator Failure.]] The three exit safely to the main roller coaster entrance, where Price says "From here on, it gets really scary."
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* Stephen Price's EstablishingCharacterMoment at the start of the film literally has him playing with the line between "safe" thrills and "dangerous" thrills with the grand opening of his newest roller coaster, Terror Incognita, labeled as "the only rollercoaster to the... hereafter." As the reporter notes that it looks like a generic roller coaster and asks, "What's the gimmick?", Price replies... "Ever seen one that starts at the top?"
** The reporter, the cameraman, and Price all board an elevator that leads to the start of the roller coaster... and [[TemptingFate just as Price is talking about how he tested everything to be 100% safe, as well as how in the fifteen year history of Price Amusements, they have yet to lose a single customer, and overall that everything's fine...]] [[ElevatorFailure WHAM!!! The elevator seems to suddenly stop. Then Price tries pressing the Alarm Button, to no avail, then the safety cable snaps, potentially sending the elevator careening towards the ground. Price says that this isn't supposed to happen...]] [[SubvertedTrope And he's right. It turns out that the screens at the top and bottom of the elevator that appeared to show what's happening outside are actually tv projection screens and the whole elevator was designed to mimic ElevatorFailure.]] The three exit safely to the main roller coaster entrance, where Price says "From here on, it gets really scary."
** The Terror Incognita roller coaster itself... pretty ominous looking for a roller coaster... and Price manages to make it look scarier... not just with fog tunnels. At one point, a section of railing appears to snap out of place, sending an entire train off the track. One of the technicians calls over to Price saying something along the lines of Houston, we have a problem. [[BaitAndSwitch The problem he was talking about is actually some guy named "Passenger Six" losing his arm, but everyone is fine.]] "Passenger Six " is actually a dummy and the coaster is actually rigged with breakaway track meant to fling off ''a train full of dummies'', leading you to (logically) believe that you're about to die horribly before the "broken" track slides back into place, allowing the train full of real people to continue over that stretch of track unharmed.
* As Stephen Price puts it best, No cheap thrills, genuine journey to the brink of madness.
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** The FiveSecondForeshadowing for this is also quite creepy; they hear the patients laughing and screaming first. They look up... and see dozens of hands pressed and bashing against the skylight above them like something out of ''Film/{{Poltergeist|1982}}.

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** The FiveSecondForeshadowing for this is also quite creepy; they hear the patients laughing and screaming first. They look up... and see dozens of hands pressed and bashing against the skylight above them like something out of ''Film/{{Poltergeist|1982}}.''Film/{{Poltergeist|1982}}''.
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** The FiveSecondForeshadowing for this is also quite creepy; they hear the patients laughing and screaming first. They look up... and see dozens of hands pressed and bashing against the skylight above them like something out of ''Film/{{Poltergeist}}.

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** The FiveSecondForeshadowing for this is also quite creepy; they hear the patients laughing and screaming first. They look up... and see dozens of hands pressed and bashing against the skylight above them like something out of ''Film/{{Poltergeist}}.''Film/{{Poltergeist|1982}}.

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** The worst part prior to the creepy-jittery ghost suddenly attacking her? She only sees the vivisection ''on camera''. The room seems empty and abandoned, but through the screen of the camera, the doctors and patient can be clearly seen... And then the doctors ''[[OhCrap turn to look at her]]''.

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** The worst part prior to the creepy-jittery ghost suddenly attacking her? She only sees the vivisection ''on camera''. The room seems empty and abandoned, but through the screen of the camera, the doctors and patient can be clearly seen... And and then the doctors ''[[OhCrap turn to look at her]]''.her]]''.
*** And the operation? That's the operation Vanacutt was performing at the ''start of the film''.

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** The opening of the film where Dr. Vanacut is operating on a patient. The muffled screams and the fact that he has his nurses filming it is something out of a nightmare.
** Right afterwards one of the patients approaches the desk and gives a very seductive smile to the receptionist and he smiles back like it’s nothing but then he hears several voices and then the glass from behind him breaks as more patients then overpower, take him down to the ground and one of the guys takes a batch of REALLY sharped pencils and stands him right through the neck.......... It’s not helped by the patients SlasherSmile and the receptionist blood-curdling gurgling and gasps for air.
** The patients then break into the operating room and overpower Vanacut and his nurses, drowning one of the nurses, stripping the clothes of one of them with heavily rape implications on their minds and they rough up Vanacut and drag him to the operating table......
* Then later we see the patients performing their own brand of operating/torture on one of the nurses and Vanacut in which they have cut open his chest. Also the fact they are filming it as well don’t help the matter.
* The scene where Melissa finds herself videotaping a ghostly vivisection in an empty room, and then senses something behind her. She turns, sees a shadowy figure peer around a corner way down the hallway, and in an eyeblink it's right there in her face, teeth, blood and all.

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** * The opening of the film where Dr. Vanacut Vanacutt is operating on a patient. The muffled screams and the fact that he has his nurses filming it is something out of a nightmare. \n** He doesn't say a word the whole time.
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Right afterwards afterwards, one of the patients approaches the desk and gives a very seductive smile to the receptionist and he receptionist. He smiles back like it’s nothing nothing, but then he hears several voices voices, and then the glass from behind him breaks as more patients then overpower, take him down to the ground and one of the guys takes a batch of REALLY sharped pencils and stands him right break through the neck.......... windows behind him. They end up stabbing him through the neck, with the pencils he'd just sharpened. It’s not helped by the patients patient's SlasherSmile and the receptionist blood-curdling receptionist's gurgling and gasps for air.
** The patients then break into the operating room and overpower Vanacut room, overpowering Vanacutt and his nurses, drowning nurses. They drown one of the nurses, stripping the clothes of one of them with heavily strip another, clearly intending to rape implications on their minds and they rough up Vanacut her, and drag him Vanacutt to the operating table......
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table. The patients end up stealing the camera, filming themselves operating on Vanacutt and one of the nurses.
** The FiveSecondForeshadowing for this is also quite creepy; they hear
the patients performing their own brand laughing and screaming first. They look up... and see dozens of operating/torture on one of hands pressed and bashing against the nurses and Vanacut in which they have cut open his chest. Also the fact they are filming it as well don’t help the matter.
skylight above them like something out of ''Film/{{Poltergeist}}.
* The scene where Melissa finds herself videotaping a ghostly vivisection in an empty room, and then senses something behind her. She turns, sees a shadowy figure peer around a corner way down the hallway, and in the blink of an eyeblink eye, it's right there in her face, teeth, blood and all.



* The nightmare sequence in which Steven Price is in the "saturation chamber." First, his head is tightly wrapped and dunked in water by twitching creepy ghosts. Then, he sees a beautiful young woman submerged in water who starts bleeding from the mouth before revealing her NightmareFace (which consists of [[http://www.hollywoodhistoryonline.com/zencart/index.php?main_page=popup_image_additional&pID=358&pic=8&products_image_large_additional=images/HauntedHill_06.JPG smooth-ish skin where her eyes and nose should be and a GIANT gaping mouth]]) while ''screaming'' at him. Finally, he is exposed to his wife holding his (still alive!) severed head while laughing evilly. See the creepy scene [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nI7w-5S2rrA here]] (NSFW because of brief nudity, also seizure warning).

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* The nightmare sequence in which Steven Price is in the "saturation chamber." chamber". First, his head is tightly wrapped and dunked in water by twitching creepy ghosts. Then, he sees a beautiful young woman submerged in water who starts bleeding from the mouth before revealing her NightmareFace (which consists of [[http://www.hollywoodhistoryonline.com/zencart/index.php?main_page=popup_image_additional&pID=358&pic=8&products_image_large_additional=images/HauntedHill_06.JPG smooth-ish skin where her eyes and nose should be and a GIANT gaping mouth]]) while ''screaming'' at him. Finally, he is exposed to his wife holding his (still alive!) severed head while laughing evilly. See the creepy scene [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nI7w-5S2rrA here]] (NSFW because of brief nudity, also seizure warning).



* The final shot at the end of the credits, showing the characters devoured by the "Evil" in a nightmarish scene right out of Vanacuts depraved "Home movies", suggesting they're still trapped in an endless hell within the Asylum. Even the opening credits are creepy.



* The post-credit scene suggests that Steven and Evelyn Price have met with [[AndIMustScream a fate worse than death.]] That the scene is played as completely silent makes it even more unsettling.

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** Right afterwards one of the patients approaches the desk and gives a very seductive smile to the receptionist and he smiles back like it’s nothing but then he hears several voices and then the glass from behind him breaks as more patients then overpower, take him down to the ground and one of the guys takes a batch of REALLY sharped pencils and stands him right through the neck.......... It’s not helped by the patients SlasherSmile and the receptionist blood-curdling gurgling and gasps for either.

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** Right afterwards one of the patients approaches the desk and gives a very seductive smile to the receptionist and he smiles back like it’s nothing but then he hears several voices and then the glass from behind him breaks as more patients then overpower, take him down to the ground and one of the guys takes a batch of REALLY sharped pencils and stands him right through the neck.......... It’s not helped by the patients SlasherSmile and the receptionist blood-curdling gurgling and gasps for either.air.

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