Medical Horror

"Take off all your clothing,

We've only just begun.

We have no anaesthesia,

It's 1841!"

- Emilie Autumn, "Miss Lucy Had Some Leeches"

The glint of a sharpened scalpel, the roar of a dull, rusty dentist drill, the look of terror on a patient's face when he realizes just what that Saw is for. There's something about being helplessly Strapped to An Operating Table, with the surgeons looming over you cutting you up and anesthesia slowly dulling your mind, that seems to have a certain appeal to horror authors. Expect plenty of hypodermic needles, oversized bone saws, and of course the good old lobotomy tools.

Psychological horror, involving soothing happy pills and a nice padded room, also fits in this index.

A subtrope of Adult Fear.

Tropes:

 * Abandoned Hospital
 * Abandoned Hospital Awakening
 * Afraid of Needles
 * An Arm and a Leg
 * Artificial Limbs
 * Battleaxe Nurse
 * Bedlam House
 * Bio Augmentation
 * Biological Mashup
 * Bizarre Alien Biology
 * Body Horror
 * Conjoined Twins
 * Creepy Souvenir
 * Cuckoo Nest
 * Cyborg
 * Deadly Doctor
 * Depraved Dentist
 * Evilutionary Biologist
 * Eye Scream
 * Flesh Golem
 * Frankenstein's Monster
 * Freak Lab Accident
 * Genetic Engineering Is the New Nuke
 * Guinea Pig Family
 * Harmful Healing
 * Lego Genetics
 * Life or Limb Decision
 * Mad Doctor
 * Mad Scientist
 * Mad Scientist Laboratory
 * Magic Genetics
 * Malevolent Mutilation
 * Medical Rape and Impregnate
 * Morally-Ambiguous Doctorate
 * Orderlies Are Creeps
 * Organ Autonomy
 * Organ Theft
 * Patient Zero
 * Playing with Syringes
 * Professor Guinea Pig
 * Psycho Psychologist
 * Psycho Serum
 * Room Full of Crazy
 * Strapped to An Operating Table
 * Super Serum
 * The Virus
 * They Would Cut You Up
 * Viral Transformation
 * You Won't Feel a Thing