'Infested' won Best Horror Feature at Fantastic Fest last year and although I was in attendance, I didn't see the film. "Creature Features" as a rule are not really my thing. I rarely enjoy them. Although as fate would have it two of the last three films I've seen have been in that sub-genre. I didn't love the first one ('Sting') and I'm sad to say I enjoyed 'Infested' slightly less.
I'm used to Creature Features having a lot of humour in them, as this is typically how the Americans make them. I actually quite liked that 'Infested' took itself very seriously. That was not the problem I had with the film. The problems came in terms of how the film was made.
For starters, all the characters were abysmal people, and so it was impossible to care about any of their fates. The film never even tries to make nay of them likable and they just get worse as things go along. I also found the film extremely dark and quite hard to see what exactly was going on a lot of the time.
I think this film would work a lot better if you had an inherent fear of spiders. If they naturally make your skin crawl in real life, then there are a few scenes in this movie that could make you uncomfortable. If you don't however, you really are left with nothing else to fall back on. In that sense perhaps the film would've been better off with a few hints of humour and light-heartedness. However it was done though, it didn't work for me. 4/10.
I'm used to Creature Features having a lot of humour in them, as this is typically how the Americans make them. I actually quite liked that 'Infested' took itself very seriously. That was not the problem I had with the film. The problems came in terms of how the film was made.
For starters, all the characters were abysmal people, and so it was impossible to care about any of their fates. The film never even tries to make nay of them likable and they just get worse as things go along. I also found the film extremely dark and quite hard to see what exactly was going on a lot of the time.
I think this film would work a lot better if you had an inherent fear of spiders. If they naturally make your skin crawl in real life, then there are a few scenes in this movie that could make you uncomfortable. If you don't however, you really are left with nothing else to fall back on. In that sense perhaps the film would've been better off with a few hints of humour and light-heartedness. However it was done though, it didn't work for me. 4/10.