Sunday, February 12, 2006

Movie: Infection

Japanese Horror movie. Kind of in the tradition of the Japanese versions of The Ring, The Grudge, and Dark Water. Really creepy atmosphere throughout. The acting is solid although the script is a bit weak when it comes to the character moments. Basically, a hospital is about to go fall apart financially, and the half-competent staff are struggling to keep the patients alive. Then, an ambulance who can't find a hospital to take their severely ill passenger decide to simply deposit him in the hospital. Japanimation style psychological weirdness then ensues.

Recommend: Yes. Just keep your eye on the fruit...

2 comments:

Andrew said...

are there any dead ladies with really long black hair? or anything which makes absolutely no sense?

Andrew Najberg said...

1) Yes. There are dead ladies with long black hair.

2) No, there is nothing that does not make sense, though there are things that seem to make no sense until you think about the movie afterword.

3) You know - the people in this film actually react reasonably well. They're given decent motives to be in the positions they are in, the ones without motives behave kind of disturbingly anyway, and characters don't really die because they go into the scary room or something. I was actually kind of pleasantly suprised.