Why were there incubators in an abandoned asylum? - Deadgirl (2013) Discussion

[–] DaviieJ 15 years ago

So institutionalized people have never had children?

Remember, you are fighting for this woman's honor, which is probably more than she ever did.

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[–] woohoocations 14 years ago

First of all, unless an institutionalized person is pregnant when they go in, them having children indicates some serious problems in that facility.

Secondly, you really think any baby born in a mental institution is going to be kept there? That's what hospitals are for. People put in mental institutions aren't locked up and chained there forever, never allowed to leave with no exceptions. Sure they have infirmaries or whatever, but if someone is seriously sick or about to have a baby they would be going to a regular hospital and sent back to the institution afterwards.

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[–] JimHaze37 15 years ago

Yes, you have said enough...now try hard not to say anything else.

.....Or My Name Ain't Nathan Arizona

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[–] thelordtantalus 15 years ago

I don't remember whether or not it was strictly an asylum. It may have been a hospital with a psych ward. The fact that the deadgirl was there implies that it wasn't strictly a hospital. Somebody put her down there.

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[–] purdyflower 14 years ago

Oh my god I totally thought the same thing! that's funny

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[–] dward88 14 years ago

Because the production didn't care that much about this specific continuity issue. I just got off a shoot at the hospital used for this film and there are incubators everywhere; I can almost guarantee that they aren't props brought in for "Deadgirl", they were there previously and the director/PD didn't feel it was necessary to remove them.

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[–] twilightzone88 14 years ago

lol that is the first thing I noticed at the door...I was like wait, 2 incubators blocking the door?

Also, it was a mental institution; one that included murderers. It was not a hospital. The only possibility I see is that a hospital maybe trashed some incubators back when the institution was closed and they put them (or someone put them) in the basement area.

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[–] Hieronymus_Fabricius 14 years ago

They may not have been incubators for infants. Microbiologists have similar set-ups for studying organisms in anaerobic environments, or to avoid contamination. I figured the devices were gloveboxes, not incubators, and they were there as part of research being done on the dead girl.

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[–] THE_Duke_Nukem 14 years ago

Bam. Nailed it.

~Says the boss.

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[–] movie_obsessive 13 years ago

Another possibility is that it was just an incubator for the normal reason. Asylums werent like mental institutions now, and in the past it was common practice for unwed pregnant girls to be put in asylums rather than cause their family embarassment for getting pregnant. Once the baby was stable it would be taken out of the asylum and adopted into another family. Therefore it would be likely that they would have incubators.

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[–] bd213-11-622155 13 years ago

That's what I was thinking when I saw them.

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[–] oldfarcut 13 years ago

You have to remember, mental illness is the bottom of the barrel when it comes to medical care. No corporation/government builds a brand new mental treatment facility. They build spanking new, gleaming hospitals for general treatment, and the mental end of the health department gets the leftovers. Used buildings go down the line kind of like hand-me-down clothes in a large family. Old equipment tends to accumulate down in basements and sub-basements of old hospitals. Nobody knows where it came from, but nobody wants to take the responsibility to say "pitch it" either, lest the cost of it come out of their paycheck. An old abandoned medical facility could have equally old/broken/outdated equipment from all fields of medicine squirreled away forever as long as nobody important saw it.

Incubators?

Hell, They could have left old, still working, atom smashers down there.
Nobody would have cared.

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[–] Little_miss134 13 years ago

I thought it was obviously an idiot mistake made by a set-dresser and prop department, but the asylum doesnt look too old. It actually could have only closed down within the last 20 years, and the basements are typically used to house ancient or broken equipment-JT even says the tunnels are just used for moving dangerous patients around, to keep them seperate from the others.
I thought maybe it had once been a regular hospital which was converted, and the old equipment was slung in the basement, like stuff from the baby wards and opersting theaters.
And mental patients arnt all ranting, gibbering old people or psycopaths. Theres a chance there may have been mothers suffering from post-natal depression, or pregnant women being brought in with hysteria etc. But it still seems like a bit of a stretch.
I personally think the prop-guys just bought up a job lot of old hospital equipment at auction and didnt bother to look at what it actually WAS.
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[–] StuckInSoPa 13 years ago

Boy, that brings back memories, and you're right about nobody wanting to pitch anything. You hit the nail right on the head! I thought only the military was this assbackwards. During my stint in the service in the 70's,I inherited the role of property officer of a medical unit when the XO got transferred. Basically he signed a property inventory sheet over to me, I signed it over to the next guy when I left. Stuck on base over the holidays and bored stiff, a couple corporals and I got the bright idea to check inventory.

Good grief! Down in the storage lockers we found old medical equipment, obsolete field testing kits and broken instruments pre dating WWII!

The dollar replacement value on the company property sheets was jaw dropping.

(Anyone remember $2500 claw hammers?)

And I was signed for this crap!? I must have been nuts. Nothing but useless scrap and rusted broken junk. BUT, anything missing could actually have come out of my pocket as if it were brand new and usable, so nothing EVER got tossed!

I never figured this went on in the REAL world.

We are long overdue!

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[–] dileas 13 years ago

Just means the people before you weren't very good at their job (ditto goes for you, if you left that stuff in place). Any company or government department that owns equipment will have a system in place for disposal of obsolete or non-functional equipment. When stuff accumulates, it's generally because nobody wants to to take the time to go through the process to dispose of it, not because of any accountability issues.

Also, if you're signing for something without first seeing it - or at the very least having someone you trust verify the equipment on the list - you're out of your mind. Would have served you right to be on the hook for a box of twenty $2,500 hammers.

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[–] StuckInSoPa 13 years ago

And as for this "system in place for disposal", you know this how? I take it that you have NEVER been in the military! Fourty years ago the time and paperwork to get rid of just one item off the books was mind boggling, probably worse today.

......."because it would save time, money, and makes sense. We can't have any of that in the military!"......

Punch line of an old joke (borrowed from MASH I think,) still true today.

We are long overdue!

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[–] dileas 13 years ago

"And as for this "system in place for disposal", you know this how? I take it that you have NEVER been in the military! Fourty years ago the time and paperwork to get rid of just one item off the books was mind boggling, probably worse today. "

I disposed of 13 computers along with monitors, keyboards, etc, right before I went on Christmas leave. Took about 15 minutes of paperwork, and half an hour of legwork to load them up and drive them to the other side of the base. Could have gotten one of the privates to do it, but it gave me an excuse to get out of the office for a bit.

I mean no. You're right. There's no way to do it. It's the military that sucks - you're perfect.

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[–] StuckInSoPa 13 years ago

Thank you!

We are long overdue!

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[–] movie_obsessive 13 years ago

also a lot of mental hospital have maternity wards for mothers who suffer with post natal depression, and i imagine they did in the asylums too.

Was that as good for you as it was for me?-Mr Blonde

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[–] claudialora 13 years ago

I also wondered about this, lol. The incubators were in the basement/tunnel area, weren't they? The history of the building was never discussed...but for the sake of argument let's say it's possible the building was an ordinary general hospital before it became a mental institution. The incubators could have belonged to the hospital, were moved downstairs for storage and ultimately forgotten.

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[–] HippieDrillSealOfApproval 13 years ago

I hadn’t even noticed that. But it was pretty obvious that this wasn’t your average nuthouse, so it’s not really surprising.

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