Infection

2004 "Evil Is Contagious"
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Released: 02 October 2004 Released
Producted By: TOHO
Country: Japan
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Infection takes place in a dark, isolated hospital, where one doctors mistake has led to dire consequences for a patient. In a hospital death is just a breath away.

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Drama, Horror

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Director

Masayuki Ochiai

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TOHO

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Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much
BallWubba Wow! What a bizarre film! Unfortunately the few funny moments there were were quite overshadowed by it's completely weird and random vibe throughout.
Kien Navarro Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.
Anoushka Slater While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.
David Arnold In a general hospital near bankruptcy, reduced staff is working under a lot of stress and it's under this stress that a grave mistake is made. A patient with severe burns is being attended to, but a nurse injects the patient with the wrong fluid causing the patient to die. One of the doctors convinces the rest of the team to falsify the report in order to save their careers, but this doesn't go down well with one of the nurses. A while later, an ambulance team tries to deliver a patient - who has a lethal infection - and even though one of the doctors says they cannot admit him, the ambulance team still leaves the patient. During a check-up of the infected patient, a nurse finds that he has seemingly dissolved and when other staff members start to act strangely, it becomes evident that this is no ordinary infection.Infection is another of those Japanese horrors that holds so much promise but fails to really deliver and it's definitely not one of the more remarkable horror's I've seen. I do give it plus marks for at least trying though.This is a classic "thinker" which means it's not a movie that spells everything out for you as it has plenty of hidden meanings, symbolism, and subliminal type messages. So many, in fact, that you may end up just confused to the point of not caring. However, even when you get all the hidden meanings, symbolism, and subliminal type messages it's still just a jumbled mess.Along with the mess of a story, the acting was pretty poor, and it was lacking any really true creepy moments (which we have become accustomed to experiencing with Asian horror). It did, however, have a decent atmosphere and the setting of a depressing, near empty hospital was portrayed well. In fact, if the story wasn't such a mess and along with this good setting, Infection could have been a downright scary movie. Unfortunately, it's just a humdrum mediocre film that misses the mark of entertaining.Watchable but definitely not memorable.
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.
Boba_Fett1138 It's nice and refreshing to every now and then see some genuinely original horror movies, come from Japan. This movie does not really feature any white ghosts or scary young children, like you so often see in Japanese horror flicks. It instead has an original horror concept, placed at an always classic and effective horror setting; an hospital.Small problem with the movie though, which prevented me from absolutely loving it, was that it seemed to have trouble with keeping its focus. It's a movie with quite a lot of characters in it, who basically all more or less have their own story going on, with as a result that the movie at times differs away from its main plot-line and all characters get an equal treatment, which allows none of them to ever fully develop because there are just too many of them and there is not enough time in this movie to completely flesh them out. The movie could had used a clear main character and the movie actually doesn't really pick a main character until the last 15 minutes or so.Nevertheless, the movie remains obviously a good watch because of the reason that it's being quite original. But being original is of course not always enough, it also needs to work out as well. And yes, the story works out for the movie. You can also really say that the story gets strengthened by its settings, that truly adds to the movie its atmosphere.And this is a movie that relies for a large part on its atmosphere. That doesn't mean that the movie doesn't feature any gore or scare moments though. It's a really good looking movie, that got professionally done.The story itself, despite its fine concept, does not always work out convincing enough. There are some silly and unlikely moments in the movie, which are mainly just some bad and at times lazy choices from the writer it seems. Also a bit weird seeing all of the characters respond to the situations. The Japanese are people that can get very easily scared but in this movie the characters are times don't seem to be that heavily troubled by all of the extremely weird and just plain scary events that are happening.Perhaps it also was due to the lacking acting that it didn't always came across as too convincing. Some of the actors in this just don't seem capable enough for the job, or at least not for their roles in this movie. This especially and mainly goes for the younger actors that are in the movie.But above all things, this still remains a maintaining and certainly original enough watch, for especially the fans of its genre.7/10http://bobafett1138.blogspot.com/
Tokyo-1997 This is one of my top 20 favourite horror movies. This movie is really unique. Although there are similar movies like this that were made before such as resident evil and slither. This movie has a very unique twists at the end which makes the entire movie interesting. Is there really a virus?? I'll leave you to watch this movie and figure out for yourself. This movie has an extremely creepy atmosphere. This movie builds tension and fear very well. This movie just gets more and more scary as it proceeds. The scariest parts of this movie to me are towards the ending. The ending is quite confusing though. This movie starts of as being very simple but ends off being a very complicated and tangled one. If you are interested to know the types of emotions doctors who treat patients in the hospital have, then go watch this movie. This movie is mostly made in a very dark atmosphere that adds to the tension and fear when one watches this movie. Some of the flaws of this movie include being slow pacing at the beginning with quite a number of dialogues, some parts were not even scary for me. Other than that, if you want to watch a movie with an interesting storyline, original and unique. This movie is highly recommended. Score:9 out of 10 stars