Yes, I'm biased as all hell on this one - I'm in the credits as a co-producer - but today was my first chance to see footage from Niko Pueringer and Sam Gorski's Infected, the feature debut from the team behind Greenside, working from a script by Broken and The Devil's Chair scribe Simon Boyes. Now, this reel is completely raw - they're still in principal photography right now and actually shot this and prepared some basic special effects for it while on set - but there's an awful lot in there to like. The action sequences are convincing, there's more martial arts featured than I expected, producer Eric Lim's gone and gotten himself all roughed up for his on-screen role, the cast look solid and Gorski and Pueringer prove again to have a solid cinematic eye and unusual gifts when it comes to special effects. Honestly, no whipped together on zero time and zero budget effect should be as effective as the one they've put together for the final shot of this reel is.
After losing contact with its researchers on a remote island, a military corporation hires a group of scientists and soldiers to find out what went wrong. But when they arrive, the team quickly discovers that the weapons testing performed on the island has unleashed and powerful and deadly entity that will stop at nothing to destroy them all.
Yup, it's a b-film but it looks as though it's got a fighting chance of being a pretty damn good one. Oh, and Swarez ... two of your posters proudly displayed on the office walls. And looking good.