A terminally ill guy goes on a trip to Paris with his documentarian buddy. After hooking up with a chick, the one guy wakes up with a mysterious wound, starts puking up all his food and reacting strangely to sunlight. On the upside, however, they discover he has super-human strength, speed and Spiderman-like agility. Still, he needs human blood to live and is desperate to find the chick that 'infected' him...
As is the case with so many 'found footage' films, "Afflicted" could have probably worked better had it not been structured this way. It's clear the only reason they did go this route is because, obviously, it's still profitable while being an advantageous way to cut production costs. This format just doesn't work for every variety of horror film (or ANY at this point...) and just ends up limiting these films' range by making a B-story virtually impossible, obscuring the 'action' and FX with implausibly continual, handheld shaky-cam recordings and eliminating most (if not ALL...) cinematic ingenuity (cinematography, lighting, general scene structure...), giving the film a very circumscribed blandness, overall. I'd say "Afflicted" could have done much more with the story and characters had they abandoned the POV bullshit and focused more on them. So, my ruling: don't bother.
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