Infection (Kansen) (2004)
Release Date: Dec 18, 2004 Wide
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A case of medical malpractice and a dead patient lead to panic and a cover-up in part one of director Masayuki Ochiai's horror trilogy. After the hospital staff buries the evidence, another patient turns up dying from peculiar symptoms, and before you know it, the doctors connected to the conspiracy begin coming down with a strange -- and lethal -- infection. Can anyone stop it?
Dec 18, 2004 Wide
May 17, 2005
Lions Gate Films
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All Critics (4) | Fresh (3) | Rotten (1) | DVD (2)
A potentially great concept wasted on a very slow story, and plot twist after plot twist that felt as if the writer had no idea how to end it.
Infection is more interested in getting under your skin than provoking you to jump out of it.
It's a masterwork of horror cinema, smartly constructed, effortlessly effective in delivering the goods.
The St. Elsewhere finale reveals that the series took place in the mind of a retarded kid gazing at a snowglobe. At the end of Infection, I felt the same way.
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Simple story that has a million of nothing. An understaffed and dying hospital at the wrong end of town is going out of business but they get a patent in with a black rash is admitted but they refuse but end up taking them, like always. Not long after very strange things happen and every few seconds you're throwing a WTF and how the fuck is that possible.
Let me start by saying the story is slightly interesting but bad you can easily see the mistakes and flaws. The acting from Koichi Sato and Masanobu Takashima is slightly above average and you can easily see there flaws. OMG a black rash and what the fuck do you want me to do about it? That's what I would have said. It has every known horror element but no zombies as its poster would show, it has everything from dark corners to nothing but some very good lighting effects.
No real scares though some scenes send a major shiver up your spine but that's it. The music is okay but that's about all I think.
I come to a close and I say if you're a major fan of our stuff go for it.
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