DVD Release
Hear that? No?
Just listen. You can’t hear it?
Hmm…well that’s the sound of my bed springs squeaking while York Entertainment fucks me over. Don’t cry for me Argentina because I totally deserve every bit of corporate cornholin’ I’m receivin’. After all nobody forced me to rent Containment…nobody forced my eyes open for the incredibly long 80 something minutes of low budget, shot-on-video spank wankery. Nope, it’s all on me. DO ME HARDER TANYA YORK I DESERVE IT!!
There were signs, ya know? The amazingly cool cover that featured flies, blood and a zombie-like being; all of it was just begging to be rented and despite my CONTSTANT protestations to you readers NOT to rent films based on their covers…I RENTED. Aside from being a filthy hypocrite I also have a serious migraine and a major ax to grind with York Entertainment.
Containment is a slow, aggravating low budget snoozer. The acting was horrid, the “SFX” was childish and the cheap camera tricks and computer effects had my head throbbing as the final credits scrolled. If Containment was a little old lady I would have kicked her right in her wrinkled, saggy taint.
A lone security guard faced with the daunting task of patrolling a large medical facility spots an off-duty scientist enter a lab during nighttime hours. He decides to investigate and happens upon the scientist preparing to commit suicide. The scientist warns him that he should leave now while he still can and then promptly drinks a fatal solution. Not long after the security guard begins having strange hallucinations of creatures, voices and constantly reappearing newspaper articles detailing a tragic motor vehicle accident.
What are these bizarre creatures and why are they all over the facility? Could the Terracell project have something to do with these things? What was stored in the bio-containment area and is it possible something was set free?
On top of all the drama, the security guard’s young son has been dropped off and may be hiding somewhere inside the building! He must get to the boy before the creatures do!
Can anybody help him? Who is the strange ghost wandering around the facility and what message is he trying to relay?
BLARGH!! Containment sounds reasonable on paper but it’s actually just silly…and aggravating. You’ll see the same damn hallways, stairs, doors and elevator over and over and over. It gets so damn monotonous you’ll be tempted to fast forward the fuckin’ thing!
I couldn’t believe how poorly acted and written this film was. Folks, it was painful. Now, I know when you’re making a low budget film you work with what you have and that’s fine if you’re not able to get better actors but stale, stiff dialogue doesn’t fall within the “low budget” excuse. I don’t care whether you have a $4 budget or a $40 million budget, a well-crafted script is a well-crafted script. Money has nothing to do with dialogue.
According to the credits this film’s FX was supplied by Glass FX, so if you’re interested in making a low budget horror film and you’re in need of an FX company to handle gore chores…STAY AWAY FROM GLASS FX. Please…somebody…anybody…tell me what’s so fuckin’ scary about a bunch of people wearing black garbage bags and Saran wrap? Feel free to correct me if I’m wrong here but medical facilities never wrap dead or infectious bodies in Saran wrap. Perhaps they were supposed to be scary when the jerky, twitchy, sped up camera tricks were applied but I must have forgotten to be scared while nursing my throbbing brain.
Is Containment a psychological thriller, a monster movie, ghost story or alien flick? All of the above plus predictable, monotonous & repetitive to boot. I can’t really say that I’m all that put out by the lack of special features because I really couldn’t careless how or why this was made. I do, however, take issue with York Entertainment ripping consumers off with half-assed product. Containment, like the previously reviewed The Lonely Ones, didn’t even have a menu! NO MENU! Not only was there no menu but York Entertainment didn’t even bother cleaning the transfer up!
