Phase 7 (Fase 7) (limited)
| release date | July 13 2011 |
| studio | Bloody Disgusting Selects |
| director | Nicolas Goldbart |
| writer | Nicolas Goldbart |
| starring | Daniel Hendler, Federico Luppi, Jazmin Stuart, Jose Guridi |
| site | bloody-disgusting.com/selects |
| trailer 1 | Trailer #1 |
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This movie was very amusing, this might be a spoiler, but the tenants in the quarantined building were more a danger to each other than the so called “disease” has ever been. It is laced with good humor and the some of the roles were stereotypical but the gore was somehow restrained, in my personal taste it should and could have been more as a gorehunter this is my nature!
I would recommend this movie to almost anybody that may even in the slightest dabble in horror movies.
It goes down like a good brandy without any lousy aftertaste.
Am I the only one completely baffled with this movie? Talk about a total mind phuk. I have heard nothing but rave reviews for this film but unfortunately I found it slow, monotonous, and just plain stupid. I have read that people are comparing this to REC and Quarantine, however that is completely false. Phase 7 has nothing in common with REC/Quarantine. Maybe I’m just missing the whole point of the film because I found it borderline terrible.
I am disappointed with Bloody Disgusting because your recommendations are the only reason why I watched this movie in the first place. I may have to reconsider your advice in the future. Rammbock: Berlin Undead was awesome but you completely missed the ball on this one.
Phase 7 joins the ranks of the increasingly popular viral outbreak movies. This is not a situation where we have zombies, simply a highly contagious strain of the flu virus that is devastating the population of the world and in this case Spain.
We join the story in motion, in fact the main characters of Coco and Pipi are fairly oblivious to what is even going on around them. When the health department contains their apartment complex in a quarantine, we start to see the everybody is trapped. From there, human nature takes over.
These types of films, typically deal with how people behave when society begins to break down. We see how people go from being neighbors, to discussing “moving” somebody for their own good, to outright looting and murdering their neighbors.
Phase 7 does a solid job in engaging the viewer and showcasing this end of day scenario. Having said that, this is a fairly strange movie. Towards the end things take a turn for the violent and strange, somewhat tense, cat and mouse occurs. Throughout it all, there is this undercurrent of humor and I could never tell if this was done intentionally or not.
On top of all of this, the sound and soundtrack may be the worst I have seen in a movie since Night of the Comet, back in the 80s. It was like somebody scored the movie with a casio keyboard, only they write it back in the 80′s.
Still, the main characters are great and a large amount of time is spent introducing them and showing you their lives together. Their survivalist next door neighbor Horatio is a new hero of mine for being prepared.
This movie is worth a solid rent and it should entertain, even if it confuses or baffles a little.
This is a fun little film. It’s nothing you haven’t seen in the various viral infection movies as of late. Still, it’s worth seeing once. Be sure to look for the Resident Evil Umbrella Corp logo in someones apt. Nice touch.
My expectations were low when I went into this film, but I ended up having a blast. Clearly done for very little money, Phase 7 has what a majority of genre films these days are lacking, personality. If you dig black comedy and shotgun wielding old-timers you should definitely give this a chance. You won’t be disappointed.