“Psycho Goreman” is kind of a kooky kid flick for adults who fondly remember ‘The Neverending Story’ and want to see dark fantasy like that with the gnarliness ratcheted up to 11. Now a group of survivors must band together to survive the quarantine. Studio:       Screen GemsDirector:    Stefan RuzowitzkyWriter:       Mike LeProducer:  Vincent NewmanStars:     Matt Smith, Natalie Dormer, John Bradley, Clive Standen, Colin McFarlane, Agyness Deyn, Stanley Tucci, James Northcote, Frederick Schmidt. Gus Dietrich and the cavalry save them in their last surviving moments. Gina discovers she is pregnant with Morgan’s baby. In an interview with Morgan, Pete confirms Joe’s earlier assertion that they were infected in Minnesota during October of the previous year. The film stars Matt Smith, Natalie Dormer, Stanley Tucci, Agyness Deyn, and Clive Standen. Joe knocks them all into submission within seconds, and takes the title of Captain of Echo Team, with the men he just pummeled as his crew. It only explained how the virus was able to spread throughout the world so rapidly, affecting specific demographics. There, a scrappy female scientist desperate to engineer a vaccine regularly butts heads with an alpha male soldier who’d rather shoot every dangerous test subject than round them up for research. The movie Barely qualifies as a movie. In turn, I can’t come up with any more creative adjectives for describing it besides “average” at best and “derivative” at worst. Patient Zero tells a story of love and politics in a dystopia torn apart by a mysterious illness. Gina moves to shoot Janet because she might fully transform, but Morgan convinces Gina to back down. How as the disease transmitted during the epidemic? Under normal circumstances, playing two actors of their collective caliber off of as well as against one another would singlehandedly justify the price of admission. Gina finds Morgan and Janet. A modern update of Day of the Dead, Patient Zero is a frightening horror-thriller. A group of doctors, guards and violent prisoners on St. Leonards Island unite when a rampant disease threatens the high security units. Morgan nicknames the next test subject “Pete Townshend.” Pete gets loose and bites Gina’s research assistant Scooter. 2009 - Patient Zero Bram Stoker Award, Superior Achievement in a Novel (Nomination). at impatient complaints over SXSW's online RSVP hiccups. Try waking up a…, Blu-ray/DVD New Releases - March/April 2021. Instead of a juicy DeNiro/Pacino faceoff, we get an imitative Will Graham/Hannibal Lecter knockoff. Her assistant is Morgan (Matt Smith), who was bitten by an infected but has not changed, is the only non-infected human capable to talk to and understand the infected ones. What was the role of the CDC in the film? Suddenly, the zombies being held for study by the DMS get out of the lab and attack the staff. Worst of all, “Cabin Fever: Patient Zero” is a film without enough surprises. The group must find a way to survive before the flesh eating virus consumes them all. Information is the most important thing they need now. Having to put down a turned child, Joe and Echo are even more enraged, and demand to hit the second site ASAP. Morgan, who suffers from flashback nightmares of being unable to save his wife Janet, works with Gina. Gina regularly clashes with Colonel Knox, whose Army Rangers are assigned to facilitate the science team’s needs. Patient zero is the initial patient in the population to develop the infection. Joe is then put into a room with five other candidates to decide who the leader of the new team will be, big and tough looking guys from Marines, Force Recon, and the like. The drama is explained away by their dire situation, and Rudy joins up with the DMS as well. The three of them recover Gina’s research samples and escape into the bunker’s ventilation system. A potentially complicated love triangle involving Gina, Morgan, and Morgan’s infected wife who is cognizant yet undead briefly teases a fresh take on the “what if my transformed loved one can be turned back?” trope. - As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. What were the origins of the virus? Morgan rescues Knox from Michael before soldiers take the infected professor captive for interrogation. Morgan is surprised to discover that Michael does not become enraged when music plays like other infected do. Ledger, a Baltimore detective assigned to a counterterrorism task force, is recruited by the government to lead a new ultrasecret rapid-response group called the Department of Military Sciences (DMS) to help stop a group of terrorists from releasing a dreadful bioweapon that can turn ordinary people into zombies. - Terms of Use - Privacy Policy. This would-be marquee draw never gains ground because the movie contentedly gives up on initial attempts at originality to go forward with half-baked efforts on virtually every front. Hoping to engineer an antivirus from his/her blood, Dr. Gina Rose of the CDC leads a research team desperate to pinpoint the infection’s patient zero. Although Eli Roth’s first film had its moments it wasn’t something that had you clamouring for more so the fact that it has managed to spawn a couple of sequels (with a remake reportedly on the way) is quite impressive. Patient zero is a term used to describe the first human infected by a disease. Had I seen “Patient Zero” in a theater, I would have made sympathetic exceptions for anyone tempted to tap a handheld screen out of disinterested boredom. Film Patient Zero, directed by Stefan Ruzowitzky. Starring Ryan Donowho, Brando Eaton, Jillian Murray, Mitch Ryan, Lydia Hearst and Sean Astin. Story is incomplete/makes very little sense. Because he was bitten but did not turn rabid, Morgan remains in a unique position where he alone can communicate with infected captives. Has no real ending. The drama is explained away by their dire situation, and Rudy joins up with the DMS as well. When you see Bruce Willis in straight-to-streaming schlock, you know your money would be better spent by donating to a presidential campaign for Foghorn Leghorn. We learn than a man named Porter (Sean Astin) is the title "patient zero," immune to the disgusting disease and held prisoner by a doctor (Currie Graham) desperate to use his blood for a cure. A Seattle detective and a biologist are on the run from a dangerous invisible assassin gone rogue. Immortal, able to keep his consciousness and higher brain functions. Unfortunately, as in the case of HIV’s Patient Zero and in Emile’s case, Patient Zero is the first, or one of the first casualties of the disease. Well, it also describes 2018 thriller “Patient Zero,” a movie mimeographed so heavily from George A. Romero’s zombie classic, it could almost be considered a remake. What role did social media play in the outbreak? Joe was correct; this was the event El Mujahid was using to unleash his pathogen onto the western world. Many scientists and officials do not like the term and they try to avoid the term all together. Despite performing an immediate amputation of Scooter’s arm, Scooter turns rabid. Culture Crypt is the most reliable website for genre movie reviews and the best in popular culture, specializing in independent horror film entertainment. Although Morgan is now in a romantic relationship with Gina, he regularly visits Janet, who is held as a captive test subject while being administered temporary vaccines engineered from Morgan’s unusual blood. Based on Justin Cronin’s novel trilogy of the same name, The Passage was adapted for the small screen by The Orville producer Liz Heldens. The director from Homeland, Robert Howell Lee, attempted to kill himself, being a mole for the terrorist group, but was revived and questioned by Church. Had contact with several people even before she started showing symptoms. She and Mr. Church explain to him what the DMS is, their tool MindReader, and the disaster at St. Michaels, where their first zombie outbreak got out of control. Morgan refuses. Knox executes him. Patient zero is a term used to describe the first human infected by a disease. Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat. With Morgan matched against Michael, a cagily cunning captive who may know the truth about the titular MacGuffin, “Patient Zero” makes the tête-à-tête between Matt Smith and Stanley Tucci its main attraction. Zombies, Joes’ world turns upside down. With his anger boiling over, Knox suddenly executes Joe out of frustration, creating more animosity between Knox and Gina. I probably would have leaned over for a look myself, since odds favor that a quick check of current weather conditions would reveal a more meaningful mystery than this movie has. Joe is returned to his car and advised not to try and look for any information on Church or the DMS, because he won’t find any. The disease they have can either be viral or bacterial and it is usually the least mutated form of the illness. Jerry Spencer, a former Baltimore Police Crime Scene Inspector that worked with Joe in the past, to join the DMS and learn what he can from the horrible scene at the crab plant; He is the best at what ae does. The final fight takes place in a room where a six-foot-long metal spike happens to be conveniently positioned at a perfect height for impaling a person’s chest. An infected former University of Minneapolis professor named Michael gets loose in the facility’s crematorium. 2. “Patient Zero” ridiculously races to its credit scroll too, hoping the rush can hide the fact that a proper ending isn’t included. US cover for Patient Zero - first book in the Joe Ledger series. Morgan and Gina ride away on a motorcycle with infected in pursuit. Gina, Morgan, and Janet eventually confront Michael. That he was not in fact, “Patient Zero”, but Patient 54 — or Patient O (for Out of Country) and likely one of many men at the centre of similar clusters across the U.S., was shocking. Patient zero is an on-the-edge family man imprisoned like a lab rat while scientists endeavor to discover why he exhibits no symptoms despite carrying the virus. It is the third installment in the Cabin Fever series and … A plane is taken over by a mysterious virus. Knox shoots Pierce so that the infected swarm him, allowing Knox to escape into an elevator with Gina. Church starts an investigation with team leaders about the incident. Morgan interviews a test subject nicknamed “Joe Cocker” in an attempt to locate patient zero. Patient Zero is the usual terminology for the first patient tested or infected with an outbreak -style infection, (in the comic's case, a zombie outbreak,) like in the movie Outbreak, which is not the main inspiration for this comic, except maybe the title. When it finally does swing into macabre matters, the switch feels like a sudden shock even though the movie quietly conditions us for horror all along. The series is set in a not-too-distant future in which scientists at a secret medical facility known as Project Noah are experimenting with a virus that has the potential to be a cure for all disease. Copyright © 2013-2021 Ian Sedensky & Culture Crypt LLC. We learn this is generation three of the pathogen. Abruptly out of gas, the immaterial flick fades to black with laughably tacked-on narration from Matt Smith, echoing Roger Meyers explaining Poochie’s sudden disappearance with, “I have to go now, my planet needs me.”. But after their successful infiltration, they stumble into what turns out to be a huge ambush. Cabin Fever: Patient Zero is a 2014 German-American horror film directed by Kaare Andrews and written by Jake Wade Wall. He does so by subduing a man he had killed the week before at the warehouse, Javad Mustapha, by breaking his jaw and snapping his neck. Church explains the possibility of other terrorist cells with potential zombies out there, and says he may be in touch in the future for help. “Patient Zero’s” zombies aren’t technically zombies. Patient Zero is an action horror film set against the outbreak of a deadly virus that threatens to wipe out the human race. At the crab plant, Echo team is on a look-and-see mission only, with Alpha and Bravo on back-up. All Rights Reserved. Top battles with Skip, who turned out to be the traitor, while Joe takes down El Mujahid in an intense close-quarters fight that ends with Joe taking off Mujahids’ head with the blade of a table top paper cutter. Movie: Contagion Critical Thinking Assignment 1. Who is patient zero? Bunny, Gus, Grace, and Rudy saved as many lives as they could at the main event, many were lost and turned, but the entire outbreak was contained. Michael’s howl summons more infected into the bunker. Patient Zero est un film réalisé par Stefan Ruzowitzky avec Matt Smith (XI), Natalie Dormer. 3. Perhaps no one had the time, money, or interest to actually film one. Well, it also describes 2018 thriller “Patient Zero,” a movie mimeographed so heavily from George A. Romero’s zombie classic, it could almost be considered a remake. They learn their ambush at the plant was all a set-up to make them think their new information was legit. Disguised, Mujahid unleashes generation 10 of the pathogen into the crowd, the most virulent of the strain so far. With how terrible things went down, Echo team is called to move out immediately, before they can even start their first bit of training, to hit the newly found site of another cell with potential zombies. While questioning Michael, Morgan comes to suspect that Michael has been stalling. 6. I understand this film didn’t have a very big budget, but director Kaare Andrews does a great job with the money he had at hand. Chewing on an indeterminate American accent seemingly meant to sound vaguely like Mark Wahlberg, Smith portrays a typically confident, fast-talking intellectual. With the knowledge of at least one traitor in the facility and a bitten soldier, Echo team is sent out to hit the second site immediately. Patient Zero is the first novel in the Joe Ledger series written by American author Jonathan Maberry. What worldwide organization helped monitor and deal with the outbreak? Does that summary sound like 1985’s “Day of the Dead” to you? Sebastian and his assistant Toys destroy El Mujahids’ bunker in Afghanistan where the disease was being developed and kill Amirah who has also taken generation 12 of the pathogen. With inoculations made from Morgan’s blood losing their potency, Gina advises Morgan to let go of Janet before she completely transforms. perhaps good intentioned, but not exactly a powerhouse piece of well thought out entertainment. 4. 5. They bring him to see a man named Mr. Church who wants him to audition for a position in his new organization, an ultra-secret counter-terrorism group called the Department of Military Science (DMS). It was first published in March 2009 by St. Martins Griffin. Joe is then put into a room with five other candidates to decide who the leader of the new team will be, big and tough looking guys from Marines, Force Recon, and the like. And that a pharmaceutical company, or something in the industry, must be behind this terrorist group, in it for the money. When they capture the intelligent The Professor (Stanley Tucci), they learn that the infected breed is also seeking out their patient zero and Morgan is the one. Gwyneth Paltrow’s character Beth Imhoff is patient zero. Joe Ledger Wiki is a FANDOM Books Community. How was the disease transmitted to patient zero? Through his interrogations of forcibly restrained test subjects, Dr. Gina Rose attempts to trace the outbreak’s origins. He was funding El Mujahid and his wife Amirah to just threaten the USA with this horrible disease so they would make billions developing the cure, but was betrayed when they wanted to actually release the plague to kill the western world. Gina and Morgan bring their findings to Knox’s superior Colonel Pierce. You think a down website is inconvenient? They are last seen taking a Red Cross boat away, with fake identities, covered in bandages and burns. The best resource for genre movie reviews and horror pop culture. Joe questions Skip Tyler and Oliver Brown about them going missing under suspicious causes as there is a mole in the DMS. Rudy believes him, and they both spend days trying to find information regarding Church, the DMS, and prion diseases causing zombies to no avail. Another infected captive, oddly more sentient than the rest, could hold the key to finally uncovering a cure. Church returns to the DMS base called the Hanger in Floyd Bennett Field, and leaves Joe and Grace in charge of the Warehouse in Baltimore. Joe and Top Sims chase him down, but he has infected himself with generation 12 of the strain. … Expand Joe, Bunny, and Top respond first on site to put down the threat with minimal losses. The book opens with Detective Joe Ledger attempting to enjoy a day at Ocean City Beach in Maryland, when he is approached by FBI agents and escorted to an undisclosed location. Afterwards Joe is introduced to Major Grace Courtland a former SAS member on semi-permanent load to the DMS. Over the course of his tense confrontation with Morgan, Michael recalls how he transformed before killing his wife and daughter. Not only does that make Morgan’s blood unique for administering temporary inoculations, it makes Morgan the only person capable of communicating with the infected. “Patient Zero” can’t come up with any inspired scenes, effects, performances, or pieces to sustain its setup. With the majority of the global population infected by a super-strain of rabies dubbed “Mad Dog Disease,” the few remaining medical and military personnel bunker with refugees in a hidden subterranean silo. Because although “Patient Zero” isn’t as abysmally awful as “Day of the Dead 2: Contagium” or “Day of the Dead: Bloodline” (review here), it isn’t a particularly fascinating, full-bodied, or worthwhile film either. And Natalie Dormer stars as Dr. Gina Rose. When a group of friends enjoying a bachelor cruise in the Caribbean stumble upon a research facility on a remote island, a deadly virus is unleashed. CABIN FEVER: PATIENT ZERO is shot well and looks great onscreen. Patient Zero is a bonus campaign for HITMAN™, introduced in the Game of the Year Edition of the game.The campaign includes four new missions from revisited Season One locations and features its own standalone storyline. On a hunch, Morgan reexamines Pete Townshend and discovers a transmitter embedded inside his body. The American, action, horror, drama genre movie casting includes Matt Smith, Natalie Dormer, Clive Standen, Agyness Deyn, Stanley Tucci, and others. Echo Team witnesses horror at the meatpacking plant, scientists pushing walkers towards screaming children, and in a moment of rage, Echo team runs in guns blazing to take down the enemy and save as many kids as they can. Predictable events continue with an overrun of infected, a cowardly killing, and a perilous escape through, what else, ventilation ducts. Marking the third, and probably final, film in the Cabin Fever series, Patient Zero is a forgettable entry in a frankly forgettable franchise. I’m often unforgiving when it comes to inconsiderate cellphones illuminating a darkened multiplex mid-movie. Joe meets the DMS scientists and Dr. Hu, who explains the science of this disease happening. Monday, 1300 hours: Joe Ledger kills terrorist Javad Mustapha, A.K.A. A super-strain of rabies jumped species to infect humans, turning anyone afflicted into a “28 Days Later”-type maniac hellbent on tearing flesh with teeth and bare hands. 7. Astin puts a subdued mania into the role that takes exactly the amount needed from pools of emotionally broken family man, frustrated test subject, and potentially dangerous psychopath. In that regard, “Patient Zero” may be a more tolerable watch than any of the “official” “Day of the Dead” sequels/prequels/reboots. Joe brings in Det. He requests that Echo Team, along with Grace and Rudy, be put inside the Secret Service detail that is on guard at the Liberty Bell Re-Dedication ceremony on the Fourth of July. The best thing I can say about “Castle Freak” 2020 is that it feels like a “lost” Full Moon feature from the 1990s, and I mostly mean that as a compliment. Obviously aiming for sequels that might explain the plot of this movie, but it's a commercial failure so it won't get any. And knowing who the HIV Patient Zero was didn’t bring us any close to the cure. The movie itself is thoroughly worthy of a zero. A fight breaks out between Michael, Morgan, Janet, and Gina until Morgan impales Michael on a metal spike. The last remaining medical and military personnel struggle to find a cure after a super-strain of rabies infects most of the global population. Even the police report on the warehouse raid is gone. As most of the world’s population continues transforming into violent hordes of rabid infected, the last remaining medical and military personnel bunker in a cavernous underground shelter. Morgan realizes that Pete and Michael allowed themselves to be captured so that they could find and broadcast the survivors’ location. He is welcomed inside, taken to Mr. Church, sees Rudy with a gun to his head, and is forced to agree to join the DMS in their fight on terror. For the activists and scientists who have been trying to clear Patient Zero’s name for decades, the fact that the myth persisted for so long should serve as a warning. Of course, that opens the door wide for Tucci’s slyer antagonist to boil Morgan’s cooled temperament into frustrated hotheadedness using smug smirks and cryptic conversation. These ancient and widespread stories that explain disease and misfortune link to the popular stories of a "patient zero" still told today. Patient Zero is a 2018 science fiction horror film directed by Stefan Ruzowitzky and written by Mike Le. https://theledgerfiles.fandom.com/wiki/Patient_Zero?oldid=4097. They manage to keep a prisoner alive for a short time and get information out of him concerning the terrorist responsible El Mujahid and the disease Seif al Din; they also realize the possibility of creating a cure for something this frightening bringing in trillions of dollars to the research and distribution industry, and wonder if someone there might have a hand in this. But that’s like saying drowning is better than immolation or strangulation when asked to choose between three ways of dying. Morgan goes off alone to rescue Janet. The disease they have can either be viral or bacterial and it is usually the least mutated form of the illness. “Patient Zero sort of served as a gay boogie man,” Mark Harrington, executive director of the Treatment Action Group and a longtime activist, told BuzzFeed News. When you have to kill the same terrorists twice in one week, there is either something wrong with your world or something wrong with your skills... and there's nothing wrong with Joe Ledger's skills. Joe has a hunch on an impending attack, a possibility from the intel they’ve found. Joe picks up his friend and psychiatrist Dr. Rudy Sanchez and explains to him everything that has happened. “Songbird” is something of a cinematic cousin to that celebrity cover of ‘Imagine,’ i.e. Following a group of scientists hiding in a nuclear silo and looking for the disease’s first infected in order to create a vaccine or cure, it has many of the touches of … Patient Zero, with two point blank shots from his glock .45. Over Knox’s objections, Pierce agrees with Gina’s proposal to sweep Minnesota for patient zero. Meanwhile, an infected captive breaks loose to bite an attendant’s arm, forcing an emergency amputation. Rudy then vanishes, taken by the DMS to the warehouse, and Joe heads out to rescue him. He reluctantly goes with them knowing he could easily escape if he had to, wondering if this is about the warehouse raid his task force had done the week before. Then the situation trades down for the simplistic soap opera dramatics of an unexpected pregnancy and a self-sacrifice lacking emotional punch. “Patient Zero’s” additional deviations from the broad strokes of Romero’s influence feature Morgan, an infected man who curiously hasn’t turned. She got sick in Hong Kong, by the time she was on a plane home, she. They are forced to rest for few hours first; it’s been a long and traumatizing day. "Cabin Fever: Patient Zero" lacks the personality and humor of Eli Roth's debut feature, but it delivers in droves on the grisly brand of payoffs for which his original film is known. Stymied by a stale script who slimness must mean it was shredded to ribbons (otherwise its 2013 Blood List appearance sparked a perplexingly undeserved bidding war), both men quickly run out of room to craft anything captivating out of cheapened characterizations and questionable creative choices. Gina is forced to shoot Knox when he refuses to let her go back into the bunker to recover her research. Hundreds of walkers are set loose on the team, communication jammed, explosions kill many of their back-up, Ollie and Skip go missing, and they fight to their last bullet and ounce of energy to stay alive. In that regard, “Patient Zero” may be a more tolerable watch than any of the “official” “Day of the Dead” sequels/prequels/reboots. From Michael’s explanation, Morgan realizes that the infected came specifically for Morgan because his unique blood makes him their patient zero who endangers their continued evolution. Lee admitted everything the DMS didn’t know, the involvement of the famous Sebastian Gault , hero of the world for all his Red Cross funding and million dollar medical research company. Infected infiltrate and overrun the bunker. They interview Linden Brierly, regional director of the secret service, and Robert Howell Lee director of special operations for the FBI/Homeland joint command, to get info on the event and the men they sent to the DMS when Church was first building it up, searching for their traitor. Sensing Gina is pregnant, Janet sacrifices herself to the infected so that Morgan and Gina can escape to the surface together. Obviously, Matt Smith plays the role of Morgan. The 1/10 is purely for Natalie Dormer because she's gorgeous. We follow a group of survivors as they desperately try to find a cure for the disease and watch as they are slowly torn apart by the new highly intelligent and ravenous creatures. Much like Andrews’ previous film ALTITUDE, this picture relies on suspense and intensity just as much as it does on special effects to scare you.