Residents of a rundown French apartment building battle against an army of deadly, rapidly reproducing spiders.Residents of a rundown French apartment building battle against an army of deadly, rapidly reproducing spiders.Residents of a rundown French apartment building battle against an army of deadly, rapidly reproducing spiders.
- Awards
- 3 wins & 8 nominations total
Ike Zacsongo
- Toumani
- (as Ike Zacsongo-Joseph)
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Good setup. Made me think of the beginning of "Braindead" (Dead-Alive) from Peter Jackson. It also has some great, odd, close-up camera shots which were great.
What follows in Infested, however, is a avalanche of constant group yelling scenes of a bunch of people who make really bad decisions. Again!
Why do movie writers keep creating stupid characters just to give them a tool to hurdle over major plot holes? Stop doing that! Create characters which the viewer can relate to and create a better story.
I feel though, that this is a promising director, due to the special shots and atmosphere he created. I hope he will do a better job with the next "Evil Dead" movie.
What follows in Infested, however, is a avalanche of constant group yelling scenes of a bunch of people who make really bad decisions. Again!
Why do movie writers keep creating stupid characters just to give them a tool to hurdle over major plot holes? Stop doing that! Create characters which the viewer can relate to and create a better story.
I feel though, that this is a promising director, due to the special shots and atmosphere he created. I hope he will do a better job with the next "Evil Dead" movie.
A promising movie with a slow start building up the main character's emotional struggles and conflicts.
Interesting plot came in the form of skin crawling scenes of the spiders alonf with lots of screams and deaths. The last 10 mins of ending was rather weak, leaving one with more questions along the line of, 'what? But how? Huh? Can that even work?'. I think it could be better.
There's no glory in death but with so many deaths, only two were interesting enough (one being the most emotionally dramatic).
Camera work and colouring were great so kudos to the team. Worth watching for all the jumpscare.
Interesting plot came in the form of skin crawling scenes of the spiders alonf with lots of screams and deaths. The last 10 mins of ending was rather weak, leaving one with more questions along the line of, 'what? But how? Huh? Can that even work?'. I think it could be better.
There's no glory in death but with so many deaths, only two were interesting enough (one being the most emotionally dramatic).
Camera work and colouring were great so kudos to the team. Worth watching for all the jumpscare.
I had a very difficult time getting through this movie. First it was slow and uninteresting, standard french slums with people constantly cursing, smoking weed and quite a nonsensical overacting throughout the entirery of the movie. Somewhere in the middle of the movie, especially when they are going through that corridor, is full of screaming, a good 10 minutes mindless scene. For whatever reason, that screaming with fading to black and still hearing screams left a bitter feeling for the rest of the movie for me, but that's not all, screaming continues and it never ends. I actually fell a sleep at 1 hour of the movie and continued watching it after 3 days.. I would not recommend this movie to a friend but if you really don't have better things to do and you are bored out of your mind, maybe you could watch this movie while doing something else like writing this review or watching something else at the same time on your phone.
This is what a horror movie about spiders should be like. For the first hour or so everything works, it feels well put together, and the soundtrack only compliments this.
The spiders are well done, and there is some genuinely frightening jump scares.
It entire production takes place in a apartment block in Paris. It feels isolated, dark, grim, and poverty stricken. At times, it felt like the same isolation one would get watching the the first Alien movie.
However, whilst the movie is well made, the third act is difficult to take seriously. Sometimes less is more in this context. People in an apartment block fighting for their very lives was interesting, until it became silly and cartoonist.
That being said, the first hour is the best bit of horror you're likely to see this year.
The spiders are well done, and there is some genuinely frightening jump scares.
It entire production takes place in a apartment block in Paris. It feels isolated, dark, grim, and poverty stricken. At times, it felt like the same isolation one would get watching the the first Alien movie.
However, whilst the movie is well made, the third act is difficult to take seriously. Sometimes less is more in this context. People in an apartment block fighting for their very lives was interesting, until it became silly and cartoonist.
That being said, the first hour is the best bit of horror you're likely to see this year.
The movie was well shot with good lighting and cinematography. The spider effects were all really well done. The acting was also good. But as far as the story goes... why were the middle eastern people working so hard to catch these things for what I assume is a few bucks? I'm confused as to why the venomous animal specialist tried putting a spider in a shoebox. Im confused as to why after the spider escapes from the shoebox, he puts one of its eggs in the same shoebox. Im confused as to why suddenly half way through the movie the spiders are scared of light. Im confused as to how the spiders webbed a bunch of people to the ceiling... im confused im confused im confused. But who cares about finer plot points, its enjoyable creature flick none the less.
Did you know
- TriviaThe visually striking buildings where the action is set have not been created for the movie; these are the Picasso arenas in Noisy-le-Grand, near Paris, designed by architect Manuel Núñez Yanowsky in the 80s.
- GoofsWhen TN is feeling the effects of the spider bite, he is seen wearing one of the new shoes. Prior to being bit he was wearing no shoes. He would not have put on the right shoe after being attacked/poisoned.
- ConnectionsReferenced in Cinefiliando-Peliculeando: Sting: araña asesina (Sting) (2024)
- SoundtracksKer
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Box office
- Gross worldwide
- $2,424,627
- Runtime1 hour 46 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 2.39 : 1
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