Infected

About Infected

Infected is a 2008 Canadian made-for-television Action adventure science-fiction horror-thriller film, which was directed by Adam Weissman. The movie has been given extremely negative reviews by critics and criticized by local television viewers for its B-movie/Z-movie-style elements and low-grade cinematography, extremely cheap budget, lack of coherence, and fast-paced and improper storytelling. The film however, has developed a strong cult following among Google users who have seen the film. The film received an R-rating from the MPAA before its scheduled release in the United States in 2009.

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Cast

Gil Bellows as Ben

Maxim Roy as Lisa

Glenda Braganza as Connie

Mark Camacho as Craig Braddock

Bruce Dinsmore as Peter Whitefield

Carlo Mestroni as Captain Wimmer

Neil Napier as Taylor Lambert

Judd Nelson as Malcolm Burgess

Donny Quinn as Obsequious Assistant (as Donny Falsetti)

Isabella Rossellini as Carla Plume

David Schaap as Lowe

Jesse Todd as Knutt Jourgensen

Production

The project was filmed in Montreal, Quebec, Canada under the working title The Hatching. The title was later changed to Infected, however this caused problems. A novel by writer Scott Sigler, with the same name Infected, had to have its book title changed to Infested, in order to prevent confusion, and a false copyright infringement/plagiarism penalty.

Release

It aired on 27 April 2008 on the SciFi channel. Genius Productions and Rhi Entertainment released the film Direct-to-DVD and VOD on 19 May 2009 in the United States.

The film later received a limited online streaming release on Netflix, in 2011 and was given moderately positive reviews.

Soundtrack

Ned Bouhalassa composed the score and worked on the Soundtrack with drummer Christian Olsen.

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Notable quotes

“[Diseases] crucify the soul of man, attenuate our bodies, dry them, wither them, shrivel them up like old apples, make them as so many anatomies.”
— Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I, scene 2. Memb. 3. Subsect. 10.
“A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may, after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.”
— Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter (1850), Chapter X.
“Molecular biologists may have ignored mitochondria because they did not immediately recognize the far-reaching implications and applications of the discovery... It took time to accumulate a database of sufficient scope and content to address the many challenging questions related to anthropology, disease, evolution, and more.”
— Immo E. Scheffler, as quoted by Nick Lane, Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life (2005) pp. 6-7.
“This apoplexy is, as I take it, a kind of lethargy, an't please your lordship; a kind of sleeping in the blood, a whoreson tingling.”
— William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part II (c. 1597-99), Act I, scene 2, line 125.
“Disease is an experience of mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body. Divine Science takes away this physical sense of discord, just as it removes a sense of moral or mental inharmony.”
— Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health, Chapter XIV. 20.
“Utque in corporibus, sic in imperio, gravissimus est morbus qui a capite diffunditur.”
— And as in men's bodies, so in government, that disease is most serious which proceeds from the head.

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