Wonderfully offbeat film!

One of the best films i have seen

One of those movie experiences that is so good it makes you realize you've been grading everything else on a curve.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Containment: Would Southampton be improved by a Viral Outbreak? Well thats what happens in this film which was made and set in Southampton. Residents on a tower block estate wake up to find themselves sealed in their apartment. Breaking through (shoddy) walls, six people link up. Outside they can see figures in hazmat suits setting up large tents. Soon residents from the ground floors are being escorted towards the tents. One makes a break for it and is shot dead.A survival thriller where the State is withholding the full facts and treating ordinary people as expendable. 6/10.

Mark wakes up hungover and surrounded by empty alcohol bottles. He's running late getting for a court appearance with his ex-wife over custody of their son. He's likely to be even later, when he finds the door to his flat glued shut and out of the window of his tower block, he sees figures in Haz-Mat suits helping people into the back of vans and hosing down buildings with jet sprays. A glance across to a neighbouring block he spots a man hammering against a window and calling for help and appearing to be in the same situation as himself. Alarmed by the situation, he teams up with several other residents in the block in an effort to find out what's going on and to see if they can escape.......It's a sound concept, waking up in a tower block to find that you are sealed in with no explanation, and having no contact with the outside world. And for the first act and a half, it's quite a tense set-up, a group if strangers not knowing what the situation is and having no other information than an automated voice telling you to remain calm.But then just over halfway through the film (and it's a very short film), it just loses its way, and goes for a great escape type film, rather than evolving the infection they may or may not have.For a very low budget British horror, there are far more worse out there, and it's always a pleasure to see Lee Ross headlining a film, rather than playing a silly character in a comedy sketch show.So the first 30 minutes are pretty tense and have a wonderfully unsettling build up, but it just falters after that, and wastes any good intentions it may have had.

I don't know what the appeal is of these low budget made for cable channel movies. Maybe it's that you can tell they're low budget, knockoffs of other movies, and therefore you owe them nothing and can watch while you're doing something else? Usually, though, they're made in eastern Europe, so this is a notch above the usual...but only a notch.A couple of glaring flaws, I think. The characters are the usual types for this kind of movie, so you know right out what's going to happen to them. The virus? It's airborne yet contained to two apartment buildings? Next, do all apartment buildings in the UK have unbreakable windows? Finally, it's a good thing for the government people that this was the UK and not America. Here, there would have been some armed residents, and the government wouldn't be able to "contain" the citizens so easily.Finally, though, I did like the ending. It left room for speculation about what has happened. A nice rainy Saturday afternoon movie.

I must admit - I'm not a massive movie watcher, and movies like this are exactly why. I find myself questioning why such massive holes in the plot exist.So, the film starts with a man waking up late as there is no electricity so doesn't hear his alarm. As it turns out, there is no water either (the reason that there is no water isn't explained in the film).As the guy tries to set off for work, he finds that his front door has been glued up, and is unable to leave. When he looks out of the window, it turns out that it seems EVERYONE has been glued into their flats as well (we're talking 3 full high-rise blocks of flats here). OK - wait. Just HOW ON EARTH did someone manage to not only glue everyone's front doors shut, and all of their windows shut overnight without ANYONE noticing??? I'd be sceptical if they could CLEAN 3 entire blocks of flats windows in a single night, never mind glue all the windows shut - completely silently, without anyone noticing. OK - so at the same time he finds out that he's locked in - he's on the phone - and of course - the line goes dead halfway through the call (presumably as "the government" wants to stop residents from calling the outside world to tell them of the situation). But wait - we've already established that the guy had overslept so presumably it was maybe 8-9am. There must be dozens of people in the block who HADN'T overslept and must have had time to get the call to the outside and tell them of the situation.Later on in the film, on of the "Hazmat" officers gets taken hostage, and is paraded in the front window to other members of his group. You'd think that something is done about this, but no - for hours and hours nothing is done about it. Not a single attempt is made to either talk to or arrange rescue of the hostage. Further along, someone is shot whilst impersonating a Hazmat Officer. Given that this is in an apparent quarantine area, with some sort of mystery virus around - why is a dead body left on the ground for the rest of the film? Wouldn't there be some attempt be made to remove it, to prevent contamination?There are so many holes in the plot, I'm gob-smacked that this film got nominated for multiple awards. I STILL don't understand why the water was turned off for the tower block, or what the "government" expected hundreds of people to do for drinking water, having locked them inside for over a day.Anyway - there are obviously people that enjoyed this film, but for me - I can't! I'm simply asking too many questions whilst watching it.