| View Larger Image | Infection | DVDStarring: Michiko Hada, Mari Hoshino, Tae Kimura, Yoko Maki, Kaho Minami
Directed By: Masayuki Ochiai
Also With: Hatsuaki Masui (Cinematographer), Masayuki Ochiai (Writer), Yoshifumi Fukazawa (Editor), Kazuya Hamana (Producer), Takashige Ichise (Producer), Yasushi Kotani (Producer), Yuki'e Kitô (Producer), Ryôichi Kimizuka (Writer)
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| | Binding: | DVD | | Rating: |  | | Run Time: | 98 minutes | | Format: | Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC | | Studio: | Lions Gate | | Number of Discs: | 1 | | Aspect Ratio: | 1.85:1 | | Release Date: | May 17, 2005 | | Sales Rank: | 36,624th |
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EDITORIAL REVIEWS |
Description
From the creators of The Ring, Grudge, and Dark Water comes Infection. A patient in a hospital dies due to malpractice. The doctors responsible panic and stage a cover up. Shortly thereafter, another patient is left at the hospital doors dying of bizarre symptoms. When the patient dies, the doctors involved in the cover up being acting strangely, then one by one, develop the same mysterious and deadly symptoms. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 3.5 based on 39 reviews)
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creepy visuals and atmosphere but not as good as i expected by Sparks (United States)  4 Stars
August 17, 2009
I was expecting a lot from this movie. The trailers made it seem much more exciting/scarier than it actually was. The acting was meh and I lost interest about half way through. The hospital itself was scary though and I would watch again for the architectural details. Also ... the case it came in was broken!!!
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Liquify Me... by Bindy Sue Frønkünschtein (under the rubble)  5 Stars
June 10, 2009
INFECTION is an excellent little goosher, with its building sense of desperation and extreme dread. The cold, dark hospital setting is more like a dungeon or bleak prison. I never saw the twisty finalé coming, as it turned the whole thing inside-out (outside-in?). If you enjoy grim tales of death, paranoia, and terror, then INFECTION should make you gangrenous w/ joy...
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It's like an episode of ER, but with murder and green goo! by Robert P. Beveridge (Cleveland, OH)  3 Stars
May 30, 2008
Kansen (Masayuki Ochiai, 2004)
I'm not entirely sure what to think of Kansen, Masayuki Ochiai (Shutter)'s third feature film (following Parasite Eve and The Hypnotist). I can appreciate it on so many levels, but there always seemed to be a really great film lurking underneath this that never got a chance to show its true colors, and so I ended up not nearly as satisfied as I could have been with it.
The opening half-hour of the film will endear it to longtime viewers of shows such as ER; the setting is a rural hospital, the characters its massively overworked night staff. This consists of four doctors-- Nakazono (Salaryman Kintaro's Michiko Hada), Kishido (Glory to the Filmmaker!'s Moro Morooka), Akiba (Rasen's Koichi Sato), and Uozumi (Masanobu Takashima of the upcoming Death Note prequel L: Change the World)-- all presided over by administrator Akai (The Grat Yokai War's Shiro Sano), a gruff, overbearing sort-- and a handful of nurses. They run around trying to do the best they can for a hospital full of patients, but inevitably end up bungling things. When one of the mistakes ends in the death of a patient, the movie sets up as a mystery as to who's actually to blame for the death, but Ochiai has some twists in store in that regard. That storyline, however, only acts as a frame for the bulk of the film, which involves a patient with a mysterious disease who is left in the emergency room by paramedics. The patient, as it turns out, is infectious, and soon the hospital staff finds itself succumbing to the disease-- all, that is, except for Akai and Akiba. Akiba has to figure out how to avoid becoming infected and save as many people as possible, with Akai hindering him at every turn. (But that, of course, is not all. We've got that dead body to deal with as well, and a bunch of very stressed-out hospital staff.)
If you approach it like an episode of ER, and kind of shuffle off the pretty lame infection storyline to the backburner, this is an enjoyable little flick (assuming you've got the stomach for it; the infection tends to do nasty things to the people who contract it). It's certainly not going to end up ranking with such neoclassic Asian horror films as The Eye or Audition, but it serves its purpose well enough, with a nicely chilling atmosphere and some strong acting from the principals. But still, as someone else wrote in a review, it did feel as if this was going to be an entirely different movie, and the infection storyline got stuck in at the last minute. Perhaps that's the case, perhaps not; I've no idea. Not as good as it could've been, but not entirely awful, either. Worth a shot if you've nothing better to do late one night. ** ½
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Gross Anatomy 3.5 (dvd features below) by Mike Liddell (Massachusetts) 3 Stars
March 21, 2008
Is infection a supernatural tale or a slasher film? It's actually a supernatural slasher film filled with gore and shot in a dreamlike nightmare fashion.
A Overworked, Underfunded, and Understaffed hospital where patients are mistreated and mistakes are made some worse than others. After the doctors try to cover up one of said mistakes a infected patient is dropped in their E.R, and all hell breaks lose.
Stephen King actually recommended this for a watch in Entertainment Weekly last Halloween.
DVD FEATURES
No special features however the picture quality on this looked great, I've been watching mostly blu ray and this film still looked good. This is the first dvd to actually completely film my screen, I have a 106" draper screen and on cable 1:85 aspect ratio totally fills the screen but on dvds it leaves just a little tiny black line at the bottom, not your typical letterbox via 2:35. Anyway, this film completely and perfectly filmed the screen. It says it was formatted from the original 1:85 version in which the film was shot. If films aren't usually done like that maybe they should start.
The dolby digital 5.1 track in Japanese was also crisp and effective.
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Simply Infectious by Ruvic (A Place) 4 Stars
March 19, 2008
I ended up rewatching this film for the first time six years after my rekindled interest into horror cinema. When I remembered one of the titles from the J-Horror series that seems to have spawned two unofficial entries over the past few years, I ended up remember Infection highly over Premontion - one that was remade in the US a few years back - and Reincarnation - one of the original 8 Films To Die For from Afterdark Films.
What made me hold Infection highly over the two was that it didn't rely on cliché tactics to make it as appealing to films like Ju-On and Ring, while it achieves to be a well-paced film with lots of interesting scenes to keep viewers guessing what happens next.
For me, this film is greatly directed to have the most brooding atmosphere ever presented. From a dark to an eerily shaded creep of green, the screen was like a life monitor holding a vital sign that you desperately needed to not have it flat line. It also heavily presented an environment that made you feel that something is obviously wrong, but you don't know when what that wrong would happen.
Effects aren't so much as an issue here - aside from the green blood, but that gets explained later in the film as a metaphor for mental mindsets. Lot's of medical equipment (ie: syringes, scalpels, sutures, ivy racks, etc etc), creepy infected-possessed make-up to make all the doctors look like they need an actual doctor, and overall a gruesome assortment of medical mayhem to freak out the casual movie gore.
An assorted cast is welcomed to the set to help create this monstrosity of a film. Pretty much, think if the whole cast of Grey's Anatomy was suddenly plagued with a case of the Black Plague that induced a flesh-eating virus.
My one fault with the film from reaching a full score from me is that the story fails to stay coherent. At times, it was perfectly clear on what had happen, but trudging on, I felt sort of lost at times, in which, my brain had to stay on to keep up with what was going on. The story lost me at times, and even made me nod off every few scenes, but I could sense a promising premise that could've been polished up with some more time.
Overall, I'm giving this film thumbs up if you're willing to pour your mind into following this film, otherwise, you may be much more happier with a night with Freddy Kruegur if you're not into psychological mind-f@#%s.
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