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.

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.

This is one of my top 20 favourite horror movies. This movie is really unique. Although there are similar movies like this that were made before such as resident evil and slither. This movie has a very unique twists at the end which makes the entire movie interesting. Is there really a virus?? I'll leave you to watch this movie and figure out for yourself. This movie has an extremely creepy atmosphere. This movie builds tension and fear very well. This movie just gets more and more scary as it proceeds. The scariest parts of this movie to me are towards the ending. The ending is quite confusing though. This movie starts of as being very simple but ends off being a very complicated and tangled one. If you are interested to know the types of emotions doctors who treat patients in the hospital have, then go watch this movie. This movie is mostly made in a very dark atmosphere that adds to the tension and fear when one watches this movie. Some of the flaws of this movie include being slow pacing at the beginning with quite a number of dialogues, some parts were not even scary for me. Other than that, if you want to watch a movie with an interesting storyline, original and unique. This movie is highly recommended. Score:9 out of 10 stars

I'm generally not a big fan of the recent stream of Asian (and more particularly Japanese) horror movies, but "Infection" is sincerely one of the creepiest and most atmospheric thrillers I had the pleasure of seeing recently. The story may be just average (or perhaps slightly above average), but it's the grim setting and morbid scenery that make this film so genuinely intense and haunting. Great horror directors – and Masayuki Ochiai is clearly one of them – know that hospitals form the ideal setting for a claustrophobic horror movie. It's a place people don't want to get associated with because it equals pain, fear and risks. "Infection" even goes one step beyond the usual and already uncanny hospital setting, as the building used in the story is ramshackle, understaffed and full of technical ailments. People already want to avoid hospitals as it is, but ending up here would be a total nightmare. There are always malfunctioning lights in the hallways, the nursing staff is unfriendly because of the stress and the doctors look like they'll screw up their next surgery because they've been awake and working for several days straight. The plot of "Infection" is compelling and frightening as well, but unfortunately it gets far too confusing and incoherent towards the finale. This almost seems to be a standard "shortcoming" in Asian horror, however. The concept is thrilling and absorbing at first, but an overload of red herrings and supernatural insinuations eventually ruins everything. "Infection" opens terrifically, with a group of doctors and nursing closing a pact of silence regarding a medical blunder. Immediately after, a mysterious and seemingly abandoned new patient spreads a horrible virus throughout the hospital that infects other patients as well as doctors. The infected start bleeding green fluids from all body holes and behave like mindless zombies. One of the resident doctors insists on investigating the new bacteria and even threatens to break the others' pact if they don't cooperate, but the infection soon goes out of control. "Infection" is a great and terrifying film up until a certain point, but please don't ask me to explain the ending. It certainly features the most effectively unsettling atmosphere ever in an Asian horror effort, the acting performances are more than adequate and the make-up effects will even engross the most experienced horror freaks. More than enough reasons to give this film my highest possible recommendation.