Infected (DVD Review)
Arriving on DVD this week is the new English zombie flick, “Infected”. Although I have a soft-spot for the zombie horror sub-genre, I must say that this one is one of the longest and dullest living-dead films that I have ever seen. Sitting through “Infected” is a trying experience. So many times I just wanted to shut the thing off, but I had to stick with it for the purpose of giving it a fair review.
After a zombie outbreak, a group of kids head to their local school which the news tells them is an evacuation shelter. When they get there, everyone is already dead or a zombie. It doesn’t take long for a small group of soldiers to show up, but they are in the same boat as the kids, with nobody coming to rescue them. The school has a food supply but that begins to dwindle and everyone begins to turn on each other.
Maybe if “Infected” was about 30 minutes shorter, it would have been easier to take. The characters are dull and the zombies are not the least bit terrifying. To make things worse, the camera work, especially during the action sequences are just so damn shaky, especially in the films first twenty minutes. It would have been understandable if this was a found-footage type film, but it’s not. Stay clear from “Infected”
By: Marc Ferman