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Hooptober 11.0 – Infested (2023)

Being Film #6 for Hooptober 2024

We’ve see a lot of films that are one thing on the surface and something else underneath. Infested, the French spider creature feature from Sébastien Vaniček in his feature debut is very much two things, but both are very much on the surface and striking in their forcefulness. You want a film to make your skin crawl with a bunch of eight-legged nasties that defy the laws of nature and do terrible things to you? You got it. You want to see some biting (ha!) social commentary on class and race and bigotry? You got that, too. You get a lot in Infested, and it’s a damn fine debut from a filmmaker on the rise.

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