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Infection z 18.1.21
I understand it was going back and forward timewise but it didnt do it well, it felt fragmented. Some of the acting was flat. Music didnt always work well. It felt like a joke .. was it? Did wonder if the openning first scenes could have stood for the whole film. That guy had some pecks. Continuity issues. It was all-white. Ain't there no 'people of colour' in the area?! Act-tough (a touch) misogynistic. Felt like the concepts got glossed over or just talked about. Thought Loretta-Lou was going to be plastic, just like the lady in pink. Why does Mr Madsen make me think of Mr O'Rourke? Oh, come on, how are they gonna protect a compound with a two bar gate?! Just so middle. Lame. 3.4/0. Felt like reducing that score just for the last few minutes but I'm going to let it stand.D.B.
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Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars
02/24/23
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they filmed less than half a move and edited it together anyway
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02/14/23
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This film is a mess and I'm not talking about those hoards of flesh eaters that it features. Without wishing to state the obvious, all movies are shot as a series of scenes, but even the majority of b-movies make at least an attempt to then gel those scenes together. This film does no such thing - it keeps lurching from one random scene to the next without any real explanation.
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars
02/24/23
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Rich character development if not somewhat bizarre with a virus not unlike that found in 28 Days or Weeks Later, so they really are the Infected and not zombies.
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Rated 3 out of 5 stars
02/22/23
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One line summary: Terrible zombie film; two actors wasted.
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Louis and son Andrew attempt some bonding centered around deer hunting. Dr. Dennehy is the local sawbones. He's doing the same thing with his son Seth.
Things start to go to hell after one of Dennehey's patients (a friend's grandmother) bites him; the wound starts getting nasty. Seth and Andrew bond over being embarrassed by their respective fathers, and over loving illegal firearms.
After granny goes missing, Louis, Dennehey, Andrew, and Kelly (the granddaughter) go looking for her. The other youngsters get plowed, and Seth gets attacked by granny.
Things go downhill from there.
Will the authorities arrive and fix all this viral outbreak?
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Cinematography: 5/10 Not so good. There is too much fuzzy focus and failures with zooming. Camera rotation I can always do without. Zombie effects were on the poor side.
Sound: 3/10 The actors were usually miked OK, but not always. The score/incidental sound varied between irrelevant to counterproductive.
Acting: 2/10 I've seen Michael Madsen give wonderful performances in several movies, but this was not one of them. William Forsythe was a bit better (accounting for the two points). The lesser players were just horrible. Tracey Sheldon was pneumatic and decorative, but did not deliver lines well.
Screenplay: 0/10 Talking zombies? Thinking zombies? A zombie who wins an argument with a normal healthy human being? Zombies having telephone calls about uncashed checks and child custody? --- Horrible dialog. Little internal logic. A new Lyme disease that accounts for zombie behaviour? I doubt it.
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars
01/13/23
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Infected (Glenn Ciano, 2013)
I saw Glenn Ciano's directorial debut, 2011's Inkubus, a few months ago. It certainly wasn't great cinema by any means, but I didn't feel like I'd completely wasted an hour and a half of my life after I finished watching it. I have now seen Ciano's follow-up, 2013's Infected, and this time I can say without any hesitation whatsoever that I feel exactly like that. This isn't just the worst movie I've seen this month, it's one of the worst movies I've ever seen period. What can you say about a movie that starts out with a voice-over about how the world is plagued by a blood infection that turns people into bloodthirsty monsters, follows that up with a scene of a group of people attempting to defend a cabin from said bloodthirsty monsters, and then within five minutes after that shows a scene of a nerd and a prostitute tramping through the same woods (a scene that seems as if it was added after the rest of the movie was completed because it was lacking any nudity? Yeah, the editing there wasn't the best...) Yeah, it's that bad.
Plot, what little there is of it: Louis Hartley (Reservoir Dogs' Michael Madsen) is on a hunting trip with his son Andrew (Tom DeNucci, returning from Inkubus). There's a lot of tension there, but the two of them find themselves united against a common enemy-an epidemic of infected human beings (think 28 Days Later... here, this movie bears more than a passing resemblance, except that one is actually good) who seem to take offense at the existence of the uninfected anywhere near them.
Okay, I have to admit (and note the spoiler alert stop sign at the beginning of this paragraph if you're reading this at var.ev., but I have seen the Big Twist revealed in so many reviews I'm not going to balk at doing it either) that I was kinda-sorta okay with this movie, in that ultra-guilty-pleasure way of "I can't believe I'm sitting there watching this crap" until we got to the part where they reveal the reason all these people have gone nutzoid...I actually yelled at the TV. "LYME DISEASE?"Yeah, they actually went there. Were it not for that, I might have considered giving this a star, maybe even a star and half (okay, I know it's pervy, but I have a thing for Christy Carlson Romano, live with it). But that put the kibosh on any halfway decent feeling I might have had for this tripe and assured it a place in the nether realms of my 100 Worst list. Do yourself a favor and, if you know this movie exists, forget. (zero)
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Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars
02/11/23
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