Infested is that rare horror film that is smart in addition to being scary (and gross). It takes the people-trapped-in-a-house idea behind Night of the Living Dead and cross-breeds it with the yuppies-talking-about-their-angst idea behind The Big Chill. The result: A horror movie in which you WANT the characters to get killed. Sometimes you'll find yourself rooting for the killer flies.
While the movie works on its own, for film buffs, the references Josh Olson has put in here are legion. The crowning achievement is a scene that pays homage to Psycho and The Birds at the same time.
There have been a couple comments on this board that the effects aren't up to snuff, but those comments reveal an ignorance of the horror sub-genre in which this film is working. As Joe Bob Briggs said in a glowing review of Infested, "this flick has some of the funniest gore effects since 'The Evil Dead.'" That's the spirit in which Infested should be viewed. This ain't Lord of the Rings, and it doesn't want to be.
While the movie works on its own, for film buffs, the references Josh Olson has put in here are legion. The crowning achievement is a scene that pays homage to Psycho and The Birds at the same time.
There have been a couple comments on this board that the effects aren't up to snuff, but those comments reveal an ignorance of the horror sub-genre in which this film is working. As Joe Bob Briggs said in a glowing review of Infested, "this flick has some of the funniest gore effects since 'The Evil Dead.'" That's the spirit in which Infested should be viewed. This ain't Lord of the Rings, and it doesn't want to be.