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Infection
was one of those movies that looked really good, and sounded even
better from the synopsis on the back of the DVD case, I find I
enjoy horror themes based on or set in a hospital environment
because face it, you are much more vulnerable to whatever’s in
store because of your weakened condition from being in the hospital
in the first place.
However, Infection focuses more on a small group of doctors
who are at wits end because of stress, lack of authority, and
no budget. Staff are ignoring emergency calls from ambulance drivers,
patients in the waiting room are being ignored, patients are being
“practiced” on, basically the hospital is about half-a-hair away
from going to hell in a hand basket.
Soon after all of the hospital’s woes are brought to light, the
worst happens, and a patient is accidentally killed due to inattention,
and mistreatment. The staff then needs to decide if they tell
the truth about what happened to him, or falsify reports and state
that he died due to the severity of his condition.
On top of trying to cover up the malpractice, a patient with a
black rash and high temperature is carelessly left in a hallway
in the hospital and I don’t want to give too much away, but lets
just say his condition is referred to as “liquefaction of the
internal organs.” Yum! Let’s just say he’s nasty, and infectious.
I was pretty disappointed with infection, there was very little
gore to speak of, and what gore there was pretty much consisted
of lots of green goo oozing here and there, but we never get to
see the patient or person it’s oozing from. There are some really
nasty sounds associated with the goo as well.
Also, the “infection,” and its method for spreading seemed really
asinine to me and that was what ruined the movie as far as I was
concerned, I wasn’t glued to the screen at any time during this
flick, but when the hammer dropped and the first of two of the
“reveals” became known, I was really let down. Infection was more
of a psychological thriller than it was horror.
I’ll be the first to admit that most of the time J-horror just
ain’t my bag, but I go into every movie hoping and wanting to
like it, but I don’t know if it’s the Japanese horror culture
that turns me off, or that I’m simply not open-minded enough to
enjoy it, but most of the time I’m left wanting. I’d love to see
a J-horror aficionado *coughTacocough* write up a review for this
one.
In the end Infection ends up being a convoluted mess that’s
just too difficult for this reviewer to sort out. Often times
I enjoy some ambiguity to a horror story, but this is a movie
where the subject matter doesn’t lend itself well to an ambiguous
ending open to the viewers interpretation, we need closure, we
NEED to know the how and the why.
The Good A few tense
situations.
The Bad Too much ambiguity
for me to enjoy.
Review Rating: 3 out
of 10 mistreated burn victims
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