Death Nurse

Shady Palms Clinic sits in a quiet suburban home, operating as a shabby medical facility for the county's indigent. Behind its façade, Doctor Gordon Mortley and his sister Edith run con games and dubious 'surgeries' to kill patients and bill the state. The clinic's garage doubles as a macabre stash for dead bodies and rotting remains, while the resident Louise Kagel endures the place as its alcoholic fixture. When health inspectors and curious visitors intrude, the façade begins to crack.

💰 Greed & Deception

The core of Death Nurse is a pair of con artists who pretend to run a legitimate clinic while systematically murdering patients to drain state funds. The film frames care and commerce as perverse partners, where money motivates every murderous decision and fake surgeries cover the trail.

🩺 Medical Cruelty

The 'surgeries' performed by Gordon Mortley are a mask for lethal violence, exploiting vulnerable patients. The medical setting is weaponized to disguise murder as treatment, revealing how institutions can become engines of harm.

🐀 Decay & Vermin

Ver(s)m and vermin symbolize the clinic's rot: the rats in the garage, the infestation that alertly draws the authorities' attention. There is a sense of decay permeating every room, from the disrupted heart transplant plot to the squalor surrounding the residents.