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.
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.