1980 · sci-fi · apocalyptic · disaster
Virus
Directed by Kinji Fukasaku2h 36m1980
Scientists in Antarctica desperately try to find a cure to a military virus that was released in a plane crash and has wiped out the rest of the world.
Our read: Virus (1980) reads as a heavy, kinetic, grounded sci-fi · apocalyptic · disaster entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, kinetic, extreme sci-fi / apocalyptic, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, epic, measured.
- heavy
- brisk
- intense
- epic-stakes
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How Virus feels to watch.
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“You want an epic Japanese post-apocalypse with scientists racing extinction.”
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