A friend of mine and I have been watching a lot of horror flicks lately. Some good, some bad, but I’ve been noticing a motif that shows up over and over again: empty swing sets swaying unaccountably. There’s Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Darkness, Tale of Two Sisters, Infection. Any fans aware of any others?
Infection was pretty bad. J-horror that wasn’t really too clear on what it was about. An ambulance has a guy with an infection (get it?) and wants to drop him off at a hospital, any hospital. Meanwhile, there’s a hospital with the worst collection of incompetents since F Troop. Supplies are missing, phlebotomists can’t find veins, pediatricians get busted to bed-pan duty, the head doctor’s trying to outsource his patients. The only competent doctor--who looks like, and has an affect like, Droopy--turns out to actually be dead. And the ambulance and this crew are on a collision course with wackiness! Infection has atmospheric lighting, lots of goo, the aforesaid ominously swaying swings, evil spirits crawling on the ceiling . . . Pretty good, as far as that goes. Does it all add up? Not even close.
