Kingdom Hospital: The Beginning  (2005)

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Kingdom Hospital: The Beginning

A house of healing is haunted by the spirits of the dead in this made-for-TV supernatural thriller. A new hospital has opened in Lewiston, ME, with Dr. Hook (Andrew McCarthy) heading up the staff. However, not all is well at the new medical facility, as many of the patients complain of hearing the screams of children late at night, and sometimes see the spectre of a young girl wandering the halls. While the staff attempts to explain these phenomena away, Sally Druse (Diane Ladd), a woman with psychic powers who comes to the hospital to visit a friend, contends that powerful supernatural forces are at work in the hospital. While the doctors treat Sally for what they believe are anomalies of the brain, she contends the hospital was built on the site of a mill which burned down centuries before, trapping a band of children inside who burned to their deaths. Kingdom Hospital: The Beginning was the feature-length introduction to the television miniseries Kingdom Hospital, which was adapted by Stephen King from The Kingdom (aka Riget), a Danish television series directed by Lars von Trier. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide