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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.

Infested is a brilliant film.

From a first time director it's a fun and tense little horror movie.

Definitely not one for real arachnophobia sufferers. There's a LOT of spiders in this movie.

Some real nasty ones.

The setting of a French housing project gives a grim atmosphere throughout the movie and the spiders thrive in this environment.

There's a bit of personal drama between Kaleb, his sister and his friend Jordy.

And this adds a little bit of heart to the story.

All the characters are one's we care about.

Despite Kaleb's misguided purchase of a very deadly spider that kicks things off.

There's plenty of jumpy moments of fun and spidery chases and tense walk throughs of 8 legged crawlies hanging on walls and ceilings.

Whilst there's nothing really groundbreaking here it's a well done thriller that keeps you hooked.

The ending battle was for me a little weak but overall this is a must see for any horror fans.

It's a good bit of entertainment.

The very first Arachnophobia movie scared me as a kid, I haven't seen that in awhile and most bug/shark/gator movies do not scare me much these days. But this movie had managed to capture the truly unique take of trying to capture a giant spider using a glass container, it was truly terrifying cause some of us had to do that in real life. That, and the creepy crawlies zooming up real fast using your broom as a ladder. This is one of those movies that are not reliant on cheap jump scares but our own natural fears.

The only negative thing I could find about this piece is that the spiders grew up too fast, there was no segment for the passing of time. And some of the cast, kind of looks alike that I don't know who's who. Their mannerisms are the same and mostly were introduced once. But it made up for some good acting to push through the drama. That scream near the end was moving and filled the room with terror... then the lights went out.

Overall could've been better but it's pretty solid. It's well written, not using cheap gimmicks as a crutch. Spiders are realistic (except for some of the big ones) and made me somehow feel for some of the characters.

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.

Its effective and claustrophobic. I think this guy will make a terrifying Evil Dead. Its always great when a serious creature feature comes out and Infested is overall very well done and intense. Great camera work, the spiders were top notch. But I think some characters were too annoying at some moments (although well acted and likeable overall). At some point a character´s reaction to a death was too much and felt out of place on this movie. It also tries too hard to make you hate the police (and succeeds). The climax was the weakest point and needlessly chaotic. What that bitten guy did didn't make sense... The kills were bland... But anyway, 3,5 stars. Solid movie.

It's always fun to see good horror from countries other than the US, which we are most familiar with in this genre.

Often I think horror films from other countries can be more inventive, different and sometimes more innovative. Exactly the latter cannot be said about this French film. But it certainly has some good beats, especially in the first part of the film where we sense the horror that will spread. The film's action in a large, run-down, gloomy apartment block gives a claustrophobic atmosphere. A bit catastrophic too. If you like horror films where you get really scared every now and then, this film is right up your alley.

I recommend it as a good horror/popcorn film. If I have to single out something I found tiring about the film, it was a lot of the dialogue which is very loud, screaming, arguing and shouting. It strained my ear canals eventually, but beyond that I absolutely approve of this one.

I'm not one of those crazy people who say that spiders are our friends. I hate them. I say squash them, stomp them, crush the ugly little buggers. If you're also not a fan of the eight-legged beasties, think twice before watching French creature feature Infested, which is guaranteed nightmare fuel for arachnophobes.

The film stars Théo Christine as Kaleb, who collects creepy crawlies; unfortunately, his latest acquisition, a rare African spider, quickly escapes and gives birth to hundreds of more spiders, which then rapidly grow and multiply. Pretty soon, the rundown apartment building where Kaleb lives is over-run by deadly arachnids and placed under quarantine, with Kaleb and his friends trapped inside.

The plot for Infested is fairly routine for the genre, but it does what is required of it, namely set up the film for plenty of edge-of-the-seat moments designed to make the viewer feel as uneasy as possible. Director Sébastien Vanicek delivers maximum terror, combining real spiders and impressive CGI for memorable set-pieces that will have those brave enough to watch squirming in their seats.

Admittedly, Infested does run out of steam a little in the final act when the cops show up and matters get seriously out of hand, and one character's decision to open a door and release the spiders is highly questionable, but given what has gone before I am willing to cut the film a bit of slack: it's not often that a horror film makes me feel so uncomfortable.

This is a very good horror film. Chills, thrills, suspense and action. The acting was great from all, the leading character Khaleb played by actor Theo Christine made the movie and had me rooting for him. For this to be a direftors first time, kudos to him. This movie will become a cult classic. I love horror films and this is one i enjoyed, waiting from more from this Director and actors. I felt Squeamish as I was watching the film, it gave me the Willies. Yes, if you are afraid of spiders this is not the movie for you. Arachnaphobia is on full display as you're watching. You have been warned.

Originally released at the 2023 Venice Film Festival, Infested (a.k.a. Vermines) is a low-budget French horror film. After receiving critical acclaim, the film was screened through multiple international festivals before debuting on the horror-exclusive streaming app, Shudder. While he has previously had experience with short films, Infested marks Sébastien Vanicek's feature-length directorial debut.

After losing his mother, Kaleb (Théo Christine) and his sister Manon (Lisa Nyarko) live in a low-income Paris apartment complex. Upon acquiring a new venomous spider for his exotic collection, Kaleb brings it back to a homemade habitat in his apartment. Going out partying for the night, he returns home to find the spider missing, having escaped its makeshift enclosure. Quickly realizing his mistake, Kaleb and his friends must escape the apartment complex, as the spider rapidly reproduces and sets its parasitic offspring to massacre the tenants in the building.

Though the story builds slowly in the first act, it allows the audience to deeply connect with Kaleb, a young man lost in the world after the passing of his mother. The emotional resonance heightens each moment of hair-raising suspense, as none of the characters feel truly safe through their harrowing encounters. The heart of the film lies in the familial bond between Kaleb and Manon, as their relationship has become strained by isolating from each other to deal with their grief. Infested hits a mark often missed with horror films and allows its characters to feel genuine.

Although relatively unknown to American audiences, the cast is comprised of promising up and comers in the industry. While the dialogue is entirely French, the expressive performances execute a range of emotions that nearly render subtitles unnecessary. The film is impressively shot and cinematographer Alexandre Jamin leaves your eyes glued to the screen, even at its creepiest moments. The dynamic camera work throughout the film provides plenty of creative and memorable shots, showcasing exceptional camera work for the low-budget.

Crawling out of the nightmares of arachnophobes, Infested delivers goosebumps with its suspenseful journey. Creating characters worthy of emotional investment, the story thrives on it actors alongside its scares. The horror genre has always thrived on low-budget films created by talented new-comers and Infested is an excellent continuation in that tradition.

I have to mention this at the beginning of this review: if you have Arachnophobia, I definitely don't recommend 'Infested'. Ever since I was bitten by a spider a while ago and experienced the worst pain ever, I hate spiders, so I don't know why I still watch movies about spiders...

Kaleb lives in a run-down apartment building. He has a history of theft and dealing with drugs, but now he makes an honest living selling shoes. He collects exotic pets, which he keeps in his room. One day he buys a small spider. From the film's opening scene, we know this is no ordinary spider, so this creates nice tension.

When the spider gets out of the temporary box Kaleb keeps him in, all hell is about to break loose in the building as the spider multiplies, and grows. (No spider on earth can reproduce or grow at the rate the spiders in this film do, so yeah, it is exaggerated for the sake of suspense. Just don't take it too seriously and you'll have a jolly good time.)

Well, erm, I don't think "jolly good time" is the correct term to use here. Honestly, some of the scenes were so suspenseful that I could hardly stand it! The director understands (our) fear. He knows what creeps us out and the tension gets under your skin. 'Infested' is one of the most suspenseful spider movies I've seen!

If you think the spider effects look realistic, this is because 200 real spiders were used for the film! Sure enough, some spiders were CGI, but fact remains there were actual spiders on set for the actors to interact with. This added to the realism of the film.

Although this is not a gory film, this will be a difficult watch for some viewers. As mentioned, if you suffer from Arachnophobia or have a distinct dislike in creepy crawlies, it might be best to avoid 'Infested'. As the film progresses, there are more and more spiders and the film becomes incredibly tense. This is a very well made film, and I enjoyed the fact the film also concentrated on the characters, allowing us to root for them. Despite being exaggerated towards the end, this is still one of the best spider movies out there. Watch it if you dare!!

I found this to be a pretty good killer spider movie that I watched. The story isn't the strongest, with people getting attacked by spiders that keep coming. But the movie is built up pretty well with including the characters and the spiders reproducing, and more spiders come out. While the opening seems similar to Arachnophobia with the spider coming from a different country and killing one guy, it's much different compared to that movie. If you have arachnophobia, then this is not a movie for you. I never like bugs at all, and I creep out on how much spiders you see throughout the movie. The movie becomes suspenseful with the characters trying to survive against these spiders and how they can show up anywhere in the building. There's also a quarantine that happened with the characters' lock inside the building, but it never explained well if these spiders cause a serious infection or what makes them so big in the first place. The climax itself isn't anything too big, but it is fine for the most part. The characters themselves aren't really that bad, but none of them are that outstanding. Most of them play one trait in the movie and are one-dimensional throughout. I do like how we see them before the spiders attack to show who they are and their relationship between them. The movie use a lot of spiders in it, and they executed really well. It shows how dangerous these spider are on how many are there, what happened if someone get bitten by it, and the sizes they grow into. I also like the setting of a rundown apartment on how gritty the atmosphere is and is not a safe place to be trapped in.

Infested is a pretty good killer spider movie that isn't the best, but it is a worth watch if you don't have arachnophobia.

I'm not one that is especially afraid of spiders. Actually, they don't bother me that much. But having a multitude of spiders, crawling all around the room and then attacking you, that's creepy crawly fun! The movie misses. It's mark a few times with some lackadaisical and inefficient storytelling, but the first 2/3 are fantastic in their creep out factor. The characters aren't very likable to me as their background is not well established. The ending is two schlocky and easy. And some of the special effects at the end were funny and not scary. Overall, however, the movie hits the spot by giving you the tingles while you reach for that canister of Raid.

In Infested, we follow Kaleb, an young adult trying to carry on after the loss of his mother while being the big brother to his sister Manon. Kaleb tries to live in automatic, sharing his care for others, and his love for animals, exotic animals. While buying a present for someone he loves, he can't avoid buying a wild spider, the act that brings chaos to the building that he lives in.

We start the movie with some men hunting down an animal that turns out to be some highly aggressive spiders. From their aggressiveness, we get a feeling for what we are up to, though, now that I think about this scene, it's funny that these hunters could get the spiders just fine while, in the apartment building, the spiders went supreme mode; and I guess this sets the mentality you need to have to watch this movie: it's a horror story, creature horror, and you might have to swallow some holes here and there.

In true monster in the house story type, Kaleb brings the monster into the building, and soon he, his sister, and his friends need to pay the price for his sin. Once the spider is lose, the remaining of the movie is the main group of characters trying to escape the building, while dealing with their inner demons and some Police BS.

The acting is quite amazing, especially near the end, when they are in that "all is lost" moment. I was quite touched by their performance.

You get your fair share of suspense and horror, cinematography playing a key role in delivering these treats. Infested might be a B-movie by today's standards, but the work feels professional, Class A at least. For example, the CGI is for the spiders give them credibility enough that we immerse ourselves into this universe.

In true monster in the house, the climax is their final plan to save themselves, after resolving their inner conflicts. The ending is a abrupt, quite a few things keep open for interpretation, but the emotional punch is there to some extent.

In 2024, Infested is a refreshening take into the horror stream. With so many possession movies out there, every other film apparently a spin-off of Ed and Lorraine, I liked to see a different horror approach. Creature horror might not be mainstream nowadays, but horror fans might feel Infested is a good use of their 1 hour and 46 minutes.

There's something irresistibly instinctive about watching a spider movie: the mere idea makes your skin crawl, your eyes suspiciously scan the corners, and your feet lift off the floor. Infested understands this primal power well and turns it into a claustrophobic narrative, set in a building as dilapidated as the bonds between its residents. In it, an exotic spider - recently added to the collection of a boy obsessed with rare animals - escapes from an improvised box and turns the entire building into a survival battleground. From then on, it's as if every wall, every shadow, hides a silent ambush, ready to trigger that uncontrollable shiver reflex.

What's most impressive is the speed: not just of the spiders, which reproduce at an almost supernatural rate, but also of the narrative itself, which never lets up. The best scenes are those that capture the scare that comes without warning - when the girl walks into the bathroom and, as her boyfriend tries to kill a spider with a broom, realizes too late that the creature has already crawled up the handle; or when they must cross a hallway overtaken by webs, with light as their only precarious ally. These are moments that trigger immediate physical discomfort, a sudden urge to shake your arms, just to make sure nothing is moving there.

If the action is sharp, human choices, on the other hand, stumble in the dark, guided more by panic than by any strategy. Sure, there's improvisation - they use flares, assemble Molotov cocktails, build barricades, attempt daring escapes - but what's missing is that meticulous ingenuity, that plan that turns survival into strategy. Maybe that's why the comparison to Arachnophobia is inevitable: there, the final showdown is a delicious choreography between human and arachnid, full of tactics and precision. Here, it's more escape than confrontation. The spiders dominate, and the humans just run.

In the gaps left by the absence of a more ingenious battle, a portrait of fragile relationships emerges: the brother and sister torn between the desire to leave and their attachment to what death left behind; the broken friendship mended under a shared threat. These bonds aren't dense enough to sustain the film beyond its physical tension, but at least they add an emotional texture that keeps Infested from being just a succession of jump scares.

In the end, the film delivers what it promises: a pulsing, agile, unsettling horror, with creative scenes and a spider choreography that multiplies faster than human reasoning can react. But perhaps the narrative lacks the same venom the arachnids have in excess - that lethal precision that turns an attack into art, survival into tactical intelligence. Still, by the time the credits roll, the viewer might laugh in relief, but they'll hardly resist casting a suspicious glance at the corner of the room before turning off the light.

In 2023's "Infested" we are introduced to some residents of a rundown French apartment building in a fight for survival against rapidly reproducing massive spiders. When I first heard about this movie I was really intrigued because spiders are scary and disgusting to lots of people and therefore automatically have a huge potential for a horror movie. And over the years there have been quite a few horror movies with spiders that made audiences cringe. But "Vermines", which is the original French title, does a better job than all of it's predecessors in terms of sheer horror. It's a stupid fun idea but played out really serious and tension filled. The whole time I had an uncomfortable feeling and felt like something was crawling on me with all these critters running across the screen. The effects for the spiders were decent and convincing, even though sometimes they were so quick, you barely got to see how they look. But as soon as the movie really gets going, you get to see enough of them, probably even more than you would like. There's a decent character introduction that drags a little but overall tells us a lot about the characters that are being trapped in the apartment building. The characters and relationships between them are complex and not one dimensional, making the audience care for them and their survival. The acting was also pretty good and convincing and the set design was phenomenal and realistic. Of course the movie also had some minor flaws because we are dealing with massive man eating spiders that are somehow afraid of light and also seem to only attack when the plot needed them to. Also some characters have bigger plot armor than others which made the threat a little less unnerving at times. But overall I think it's an amazing horror movie and Arachnophobes should stay away from this movie for their own best. If you can devote yourself to this rather unrealistic scenario and over the top creepy-crawly action, you will have a bloody good time with "Infested". [7,2/10]