Leofwine_draca
Another class effort from Japanese. This slice of J-horror doesn't offer an easy, linear viewing experience; it leaves a lot of questions unanswered, and the viewer is required to make his or her mind up about a lot of what is happening. The obtuse, abstract nature of the production might be off-putting to viewers who want spoon-feeding, but I really liked it.And it's an incredibly eerie production set in one of the most run-down and depressing locations ever: a dark and dingy hospital, full of dirt and tired medical staff who wish they were somewhere else. The plotting begins when an unspecified patient suffering from some kind of infection is brought in, stretching the already stressed staff to breaking point.There are some quite wonderful set-pieces, my favourite being the extended sequence and aftermath of the team trying to resuscitate a burns victim; haunting stuff indeed. There are the requisite jump scenes and gore spread out here and there, but it's the incredibly foreboding atmosphere which I liked the best. The director makes great use of his colour palette, particularly the contrast between green and red, and the performances are the ultra-professional ones you'd expect from Japan. INFECTION might be just too unwieldy a film for me to describe it as a favourite, but it's certainly a remarkable one all the same.
Alistar Baker
I like how much work Japanese directors put into the pacing, atmospherics, and suspense of their horror films. This one is no exception. If you ever saw Kingdom Hospital and enjoyed it for the mix of suggestive spooky supernatural undertones clashing with rationalism and materialism thematically, then you might like this film as well. At first I thought this film would turn out to be something like 28 Days with ferocious infected zombies feeding on humans, but there is a much more clever plot line going on which I won't reveal. The plot seemed to have some holes in it til I realized what was really going on in the end. Mainly though, I enjoyed the mix of film with a suggestion of a supernatural influence in a materialist or rationalist world. Visual storytelling gets this idea across with images of, for example, swings swinging on their own near the hospital, or an old crazy lady who sees her dead relatives in mirrors staring at her reflection in a window looking like an apparition. I must say that after discovering Japanese thrillers and horror films, it is hard to go back to Hollywood offerings for sure. They seem so predictable, tame, and cookie-cutter in comparison.
james_t_kirk_121272
After reading many of the reviews I find myself wondering what people do when they watch movies. This movie along with most Asian horror films was superb. In America we are redoing horror movies instead of trying to invent new ones, i.e. Nightmare on Elm ST. come on that is a dead horse. Anyway Infection---Great film I recommend that you watch this, the Setting a rundown hospital, the characters-flawed overworked staff, the atmosphere truly eerie. A mysterious infection begins to spread throughout the hospital, liquefying the victims. Like many Asian horror films the truth behind everything is cloudy, the only true flaw that I can attribute to this film is that there were not nearly enough patients to call the staff overworked. Still watch this film,
MovieGuy01
I have just watched the Asian horror film Infection tonight and i thought that it was an excellent horror film. i found the feel of the film to be quite creepy throughout. It is set in a general hospital which is nearing bankruptcy, so the staff who are working there are is under severe stress. They have to attend to an emergency to a burned patient. Dr. Uozumi (Masanobu Takashima) and two other nurses, Dr. Akiba (Kôichi Satô) and the nurse make an error whist treating the patient by injecting sodium chlorate into him instead of another medicine and it eventually kills him. Dr. Uozumi tells the team to forge the report to save their jobs. Meanwhile, an ambulance leaves a patient in the emergency room who has a lethal infection. The muscles and internal organs of the patient begin to liquefy, Dr. Kiyoshi Akai (Shirô Sano) tells his two colleagues to research the virus, but it leads to the nurses and contracting the virus themselves, I found this to be an excellent horror film, and i would recommend it. 7/10
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