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“Phase 7” director Nicolas Goldbart strives for a mixture of suspense, thrills and dark comic relief, but he fails to muster sufficient levels of any of them. |
Maybe I’m becoming disenchanted with hackneyed horror films where frightened people hole up in an isolated high rise building to avoid catching a virus.
How many clones of “Mulberry Street,” “Quarantine” and “[Rec]” can a person take?
The newest virus horror tale is a Spanish language production titled “Phase 7.”
It takes place in Buenos Aires, a city apparently populated only by two types of people: boring and psychotic.
The boring ones are a young man named Coco (Daniel Hendler) and his pregnant wife Pipi (Jazmin Stuart), who’ve just moved into the building when ominous news reports about a virus start coming in.
Soon, the health authorities seal up the building where the couple resides, along with a few other inhabitants, among them a wacko survivalist named Horacio (Yayo Guridi), a shotgun-wielding nutcase named Zanutto (Frederico Luppi) and some assorted nefarious types that you might accurately assume will be dispatched early in the story. (Read more…)