Clevercell Very disappointing...

Steineded How sad is this?

Crwthod A lot more amusing than I thought it would be.

Verity Robins Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

BA_Harrison When a severe burns patient is accidentally given the wrong treatment, resulting in his death, the doctor and nurses present agree to cover up their dreadful mistake. Meanwhile, another severely ill patient is abandoned in ER by paramedics, resulting in an outbreak of a deadly infection at the hospital that causes momentary madness in its victims and the liquefaction of their internal organs.Home to misery, pain and death, hospitals are inherently suited to horror, especially at night when their creepy corridors and sterile rooms full of wickedly sharp surgical instruments become all the more atmospheric and ominous. Infection's creepy locale, a grimy, rundown hospital shrouded in shadows, is certainly very effective, the uneasy mood helping to detract somewhat from the fact that very little in this film makes much sense.As the staff struggle to contain the infection, one by one contracting the disease and turning into puddles of green goop, matters get more and more incomprehensible. By the end of the film, I hadn't got a clue what was going on, but found myself reasonably entertained for the duration by the unsettling tone and sheer weirdness of proceedings, which includes lots of green/red symbolism, a nurse sterilising her hands in boiling water, ghosts that can only be seen in mirrors, and several inexplicable shots of park swings that move by themselves.

brianshoebridge1 I had no idea what to expect from this movie. As it turned out I found it absolutely spellbinding. The dark, moody atmosphere of a financially struggling hospital is beautifully done. The characters are quite different from English-speaking concepts of character development. There's not even a single star rather there are several lead characters and they are all good.There is no "gore for gore's sake" - the darkness is more subtle. Often I find that Japanese films surprise me, and from beginning to end this was no exception. I loved this movie and wholeheartedly recommend it to anyone 14yrs or over.

Aaron1375 Not the best Asian horror film I had ever seen, but it was a bit entertaining just had a couple of loose ends. Of course, loose ends in a film such as this is very typical. The film is about a hospital that is understaffed and looks to be eroding quickly. Patients being dismissed when they should be getting immediate care, patients wandering the halls, and all in a very dreary looking hospital. I do believe I would rather die at my house than receive any care in this place. During the night things begin to happen as a ambulance driver keeps trying to get any hospital to take a patient of his who has a bad rash. Another burn victim falls from his bed and is in need of immediate care. The ambulance driver finds his way to this hospital and the doctor turns him away as he rushes to try and help the victim who has fallen from their bed. Well things are in chaos and the burn victim dies as the wrong combination of drugs is administered. Well despite one of the doctors saying he would take the blame the others want to cover it up. Thus the strange things ensue as the ambulance driver apparently left his patient who has a very strange condition and another doctor who has overheard the cover up wants to study this strange illness. Has its moments, but it has a lot of plot holes. Such as the strange suture guy, moving swings, fox boy and a host of other things. Things added for seemingly no other purpose than to try to make this movie more complicated than it really needed to be. Kind of made the ending crash as suture guy seemed so pointless as he was not involved in the whole thing then somehow he did something that seemed to suggest he may have had something to do with it. The setting and the atmosphere were great, but as to often happens in these films they try to make the ending as confusing as possible, to make themselves seem more clever. If you ask them what their intentions were they would probably not even know, you have to know what your intentions are when crafting an ending such as this so that when one thinks upon it everything can make sense, here I just can not tie it all together. Still, good enough to keep me entertained.

Graham Greene In a general hospital close to bankruptcy, the reduced members of staff are left working under an enormous amount of strain and pressure; attempting to see to the most critical patients during the cold, nocturnal isolation of the graveyard shift, as well as having to deal with arrival of a mysterious patient whose body seems to be slowly decomposing. As the night draws on, the core nucleus of doctors and nurses attend the emergency flat line of a mysterious, heavily bandaged patient suffering incredible burns. As the team attempt to pacify the patient they commit a fatal error, injecting sodium chlorate into the body and killing him. The tragic mistake adds further stress to the manic environment, casting questions of guilt and accusations against an uncomfortable backdrop of pure psychological horror and a potential, supernatural meltdown.The thing I like best about Japanese horror is the sense of atmosphere. The use of lingering, slow burning tension when a character approaches a closed door, and we know they shouldn't open it, but we still want them too, regardless! For me, it's everything that horror should be. No gratuitous gore, no shock MTV style montages, just a slow, lingering feeling of dread that grows with intensity from one scene to the next. It also helps that the majority of these films are directed with flair and imagination, whilst, for the most part, offering us intelligent characters and interesting scenarios. With this in mind, Infection (2004) really is one of the more interesting "J-horror" films that I've experienced thus far, with its beguiling combination of eerie plot, gloomy images and emphasis on character rather than cheap shocks.The set up of the film and the use of atmosphere and location owes something of a debt to the classic Danish television series The Kingdom (1994-1997); a bold and satirical work from directors Lars von Trier and Morten Arnfred in which ghostly apparitions and psychological conspiracies unfold within the already ominous walls of a metropolitan hospital. Alongside these particular ideas we also have the usual themes and motifs recognisable from other J-Horror films, such as The Ring (1998), Dark Water (2000), The Grudge (2000) and Reincarnation (2005), as well as other non-Japanese productions such as The Eye (2002), The Quiet Family (2000) and A Tale of Two Sisters (2003). However, despite the familiarity of the plot and some of its ideas, Infection still rewards the viewer with an air of creeping mystery, dread, fear and paranoia, as well as some skilfully executed moments of subtle horror and white-knuckle terror.Although some critical opinion has been mixed; no doubt due to the over-exposure of Japanese/Asian horror cinema over the last five or six years, and in particular from tepid American re-makes, I feel that Infection is a genuinely good supernatural ghost story that should appeal to anyone with an interest in horror that doesn't involve buckets of blood and severed limbs. Alongside Infection, you can also find two other films from the same producer, Taka Ichise, both of which cover similar stories and ideas as the film in question. These films, Premonition (2004) directed by Tsuruta Norio and Reincarnation (2005) directed by Takashi Shimizu, were meant to be part of the larger "J-horror" collection (involving different supernatural-themed films directed by some of Japan's most creative genre filmmakers), which, at the time of writing, has subsequently been aborted. Regardless, if you like Infection and appreciate the slow-burning sense of psychological and supernatural dread, then Infection and Reincarnation are both worth checking out.For me, Infection is a fine little horror film with a cool Kubrickian approach to direction and mise-en-scene, and a slow building and genuinely quite creepy atmosphere of dread and uncertainty. If you're already fond of Asian supernatural cinema, from classics like Kwaidan (1964) and Kuroneko (1968), right the way through to recent hallmarks like The Ring, The Grudge, The Eye, and A Tale of Two Sisters, then Infection may offer an intriguing and entertaining experience.