It amazes me how many films on IMDB have suddenly had all their original titles replaced with obscure titles that were rarely, if ever, actually used for the film. As for HORROR HOSPITAL now being listed as COMPUTER KILLERS...is there even actually a computer in the film?
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The film is listed with that as an alternative title in a number of sources but I have never seen a poster with it on. I don't recall any computers in it and that title makes little sense.
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I didn't see any computers in this film, but then again, I didn't see any hospitals either. To me, those weird titles are part of the offbeat charm of this film.
shareIf you watch closely near the end of the movie when the laboratory is burning the is a shot of a couple of computers being destroyed, but it makes no sense to title the movie The Computer Killers.
shareGood eye! I did not notice that. It's a strange title regardless.
shareIt's probably an American alternative title.
The Yanks are infamous for changing our great British titles into rubbish ones.
Computer Killers makes the film sound like a straight to DVD piece of crap made in the mid 1980s.
I remember they changed the great title The Satanic Rites of Dracula (1973) to the poor alternative, Count Dracula And His Vampire Brides.
This is very true.
shareHey, we aren't the only country that does this.
When movies to to foreign markets, the titles are often changed. Even if the original title is something the people of that country can understand. This will happen when a movie goes to Britain as well.
Yeah it's bizarre
However Horror Hospital is bizarre as well considering it doesn't take place at a hospital but a hotel of sorts... So Hotel Horror woulda been a better name or Horror Mansion
A wrong decision is better than indecision
by James_Dangolfini » 1 day ago (Sun Oct 11 2015 10:42:33)
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Yeah it's bizarre
However Horror Hospital is bizarre as well considering it doesn't take place at a hospital but a hotel of sorts... So Hotel Horror woulda been a better name or Horror Mansion
A wrong decision is better than indecision
Yeah I guess but just because you (illegally) do doctorial procedures (or whatever) in a building doesn't make that a hospital... Especially since it wasn't licensed as one and stuff but yeah you got a slight point
A wrong decision is better than indecision
I prefer my title, 'Horror Mansion Hospital Computer Geeks.'
shareComputer killers is a daft title.
It's that man again!!
It's certainly a daft title.
It's only listed as horror hospital on my screen, though.
http://youtu.be/GAIJ3Rh5Qxs
Computer killers is very stupid, considering computers weren't widely used back then 40 years ago.
I like Horror Hospital by a country mile. But I also like the alternative title I made up.
Yeah, 'Horror Mansion Hospital Computer Geeks' has a really catchy ring to it. Any ideas for a sequel title?
Your avatar pic is very striking - you can't even tell it's a comb-over!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAIJ3Rh5Qxs
I think it was Michael Weldon’s book The Psychotronic Encyclopaedia of Film that first made the claim that HH was re-titled Computer Killers at one point with an ad campaign that compared the film to Coma. However Psychotronic was written in the early 1980s and was a very early attempt to document horror and exploitation movies, as such its riddled with errors and inaccuracies, and as far as I’m aware no ads or posters have ever surfaced that back up the claim that the film was ever retitled Computer Killers. The ads for the film that date from the time when Coma was big and compare the two films (“Coma cant equal the shock of …..horror hospital”) still retain the Horror Hospital title.
Heres an interesting piece on the US release history of HH, which does finally provide proof that this once saw release under the Computer Killers title, there are a couple more aka titles mentioned in this piece that I’d never heard of before as well.
http://templeofschlock.blogspot.co.uk/2017/01/movie-ads-of-week-many-faces-of-horror.html
They talk about Horror Hospital being a terrible movie but what is terrible is that Computer Killers title. That really does suck.
It's HORROR HOSPITAL.