John Wyndham's The Day of the Triffids opens with the protagonist waking up in hospital following eye surgery, his eyes still bandaged.Chest clamped open, still immobilized, he whimpers feebly for help before the lights go out and he vanishes as well. Rosemary, the only nurse left in a suddenly (and instantly) abandoned hospital, finds a patient has awakened on the operating table. Vanishing on 7th Street features a particularly horrifying example.Occurs at the climax of Matchstick Men, when Roy discovers that the hospital room he's been confined in while under arrest isn't a hospital at all, and he wasn't really under arrest.Featured in The Lost Tales from Camp Blood short, included with the Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter Deluxe Edition.The same scene also comprises the beginning of the second movie, Resident Evil: Apocalypse.
The first Resident Evil movie uses this at the end Alice wakes up in a Raccoon City hospital, with the Zombie Apocalypse well underway outside.The Descent subverts this when Sarah seems to wake up in an abandoned hospital after her car crash, but she turns out to be hallucinating.This turns out to be just as well since everyone else has gone blind from looking at weird lights in the sky, and now the population is being picked off by ambulatory, carnivorous plants. The Day of the Triffids opens with the protagonist waking up in hospital following eye surgery, his eyes still bandaged.28 Days Later opens this way, with the protagonist coming out of a Convenient Coma twenty-eight days after the Zombie Apocalypse erupted in London.If they don't remember why they were in the hospital in the first place, then you've got an Ontological Mystery on your hands in addition to dealing with more immediate problems. Being in a Convenient Coma while the disaster was happening gives them an excuse to be Late to the Tragedy (in some cases finding they have Slept Through the Apocalypse), making them a Naïve Newcomer until they figure things out. At the same time, it gives the characters (and the audience) a clue as to why the hospital was abandoned in the first place. The hospital used for this has usually been recently abandoned after a disaster of some sort, which helps explain why the character was there in the first place (though not necessarily why they were left behind).Ībandoned hospitals are creepy, which sets the tone by itself, but the addition of specific types of Scenery Gorn can ratchet that tension up even further. A combination of several different things in a single convenient package, an abandoned hospital awakening is a popular choice for beginning Horror works, though it shows up in other genres and contexts as well.
An Abandoned Hospital Awakening is, as the name implies, when a character wakes up in an Abandoned Hospital.
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