The Clinic (2010 film)

The Clinic
Directed by James Rabbitts
Produced by Samuel Pinczewski
Written by James Rabbitts
Cinematography Brad Shield
Edited by Ryan Boucher
Production
company
The Little Film Company[1]
Release dates
  • 25 July 2010 (2010-07-25) (Melbourne)
Running time
 94 minutes
Country Australia
Language English

The Clinic is a 2010 Australian thriller film written and directed by James Rabbitts. The film was shot in Deniliquin, NSW, Australia. It is loosely inspired by true stories of infant abduction[2] and follows the stories of six women and their newborn babies.[3]

Plot

The Clinic is set in the year 1979 (six years prior to the advent of DNA testing). Young mother-to-be Beth, is traveling across country with her fiancé, Cameron. After a near accident on the road they stop at a motel in the small town of Montgomery. Cameron goes for a midnight stroll and comes back to find his fiancée missing. After a quick search. Cameron calls the local police and asks the officer on duty to check the motel. Cameron believes the owner to be behaving suspiciously towards the pair. After the police arrive, Cameron attacks the motel owner out of frustration and the authorities arrest him.

Beth later awakens naked in an abandoned warehouse. Beth lying in a bath tub filled with ice and water discovers C-section scar, realizing her baby has been stolen. She finds a white smock with the Roman numeral DCVIII written on the breast. Alone and afraid for her child, Beth wanders outside of the facility, there she meets another women who has also been kidnapped. This woman too had her babies removed via C-section. Meanwhile, Cameron makes an attempt to save Beth by overpowering the officer and traveling to the facility where Beth is being held. Beth wanders around before finding 3 other mothers who are in the same situation. Beth then finds a women with her stomach surgically opened. The woman appears to be alive and confuses the other mothers when she repeatedly declares her child to be blue. Whilst driving to the facility, Cameron runs over a spike strip and fatally dies in a car crash.

As the mothers search around, one of them is killed in the dark and her stomach is torn open. When the girls find her, they notice a green tag inside her abdomen, but are unaware of what it means. They continue to search for their children and discover that their babies are alive, however locked in a row of crib cages. The babies are wearing colored clips that can only be matched to a colored tag sewn inside the mother's abdomen. The only way to match the mother to the child is to remove the tag from their abdomens, which will lead to death by blood loss. One of the mothers decides it is better to find her baby through process of elimination, accomplished by opening up the other women. One by one, the women are picked off by the crazed mother until Beth catches her and fatally injures her. After holding the last mother until she dies, Beth searches for the wounded mother. The wounded mother tells her of another woman who gave her advice on how to find her child. This woman told her that the only way to find out which baby is hers is to kill five other women and remove their tags from their abdomen. Before she dies, she threatens to drop the remaining tag down a hole unless Beth promises to take care of her baby as well. The women dies and Beth takes the tag from her hand. She then uses the tags to deduce that her baby has the violet clips. She then returns to find the babies have been removed from their crib cages and is knocked out by a hidden assailant.

After regaining consciousness, Beth finds herself chained to the floor. She sees a Russian couple inspecting her baby and they reveal their scam. Prospective parents receive a baby to adopt based on their mother's performance in the warehouse experiment. The winning mother has the strongest child and that is the one the parents adopt. They also reveal that Beth wasn't originally in the group but a substitute for another mother who hadn't survived the C-section. As it is customary, the adoptive father prepares to kill Beth. He is suddenly stopped by the ring leader's son Duncan, who is mentally handicapped and remembers Beth's kindness to him. The ring leader runs away with a baby. Beth frees herself and confronts the woman running the operation, only to discover that she herself was picked up as a baby from this facility by her adoptive parents. Beth takes her final revenge on the woman and escapes with her child. Months later, she visits the grave site of her biological mother (file XXVIII, Lydia Hayes) and makes her way to meet who she believes to be her biological father.

Cast

References

  1. ↑ George, Sandy (8 November 2009). "The Little Film Company picks up Aussie genre pic". Screen Daily. Retrieved 16 March 2011.
  2. ↑ Deal, Lisa (22 February 2010). "The Clinic Press Notes" (PDF). TheClinicMovie.com. Retrieved 16 March 2011.
  3. ↑ Miska, Brad (8 November 2009). "AFM '09: Little Film Company Selling 'The Clinic'". Bloody Disgusting. Retrieved 16 March 2011.
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