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Sébastien VaničekZdjęcia:
Alexandre JaminMuzyka:
Douglas CavannaObsada:
Théo Christine, Jérôme Niel, Finnegan Oldfield, Sofia Lesaffre, Lisa Nyarko, Marie-Philomène Nga, Mahamadou Sangaré, Abdellah Moundy, Emmanuel Bonami (więcej)Opisy(1)
Kaleb, a lonely man whose greatest passion are exotic animals, returns home with a mysterious spider and it escapes, causing an infestation that plunges the neighborhood into a state of absolute hysteria and chaos. Before long, the locals are placed under quarantine, and are forced to live with a plague of arachnids that become more and more deadly as time goes by. (Sitges Film Festival)
(więcej)Recenzje (12)
In the history cinema dating back more than a century, we can count the number of high-quality arachnocentric horror movies on the fingers of one hand, or maybe both hands if we squint our eyes. And I am pleased that their ranks newly include this French spider spectacular. However, the experience that it provides depends heavily on the extent of your arachnophobia, because it’s not about likable characters or nice landscapes. It rather takes place in an apartment block on a French social housing estate and its protagonists are rebellious odd-jobbers and adolescents whose survival will be of no concern to you until the final quarter of the film. But the apartment building has a brilliant circular design patterned on a spider web, the spiders multiply rapidly and actually look like real, live spiders (in a French genre film by young enthusiasts!), and more than one scene is so intensely scary that you’ll get goosebumps and hold your breath. The fourth star is for the cinema experience with good sound. [Sitges Film Festival]
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Infested can most easily be described as a mix of Arachnophobia, REC, and Evil Dead Rise, and it's really no wonder Sébastien Vaniček was put in charge of the next addition to the latter franchise. This debut is an instant ticket to the premier horror league, managing to make a perfectly crafted, very intense film that doesn't have much competition within the spider horror genre. Especially, as long as the creatures are small and nimble, it worked for me 100% and I twitched with very high frequency. I don't even want to imagine how much better this film would have worked if it had more likeable characters that you cared about. The protagonists are, for me at least, the biggest stumbling block, especially the fact that their characters imply some very questionable decisions, which at one point exceeded my tolerance level. There is a thing one of the characters does about 15 minutes before the end that wouldn't have been done by the most anti-system asshole at that point, there's just no justification for it. It's exactly the moment when, as a viewer, I stop "experiencing" what's happening on the screen and start saying WTF instead.
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Sébastien Vaniček and his instant ticket to the A-Horror League. I'm gonna go give out prizes, because this is where history is made. So Vaniček made a dream debut (right on the lines of the recent successful debutants like Robert Eggers, Jordan Peele, Ari Aster, Zach Cregger), the best spider horror film of all time (it's quite funny that the previous king is already 30 years, Arachnophobia), kicked off this year's French wave and at the same time made the best horror film of the year – no one could ask for a better way to start. Whether Infested will be dethroned by the new Alien or Nosferatu at the end of the year is another matter, but until then it can enjoy the pedestal merrily. And now for the film. After a long time, I experienced very uncomfortable feelings with horror, and since ghosts and demons don't do anything to me, spiders as a real evil definitely had an effect. The housing estates of the French ghetto evokes an interesting atmosphere in itself, you don’t get to really form much of a relationship with the characters but that didn't bother me. The craftsmanship is excellent and once it gets going, it really is a spider atmospheric hell crammed with jump-scares like Sam Raimi's Drag me to Hell, and I twitched along decently (I also praise the aptly chosen musical score!). Admittedly, it got more intense as the spiders got smaller, but even the big ones had something going for them – that's where the CGI came in handy. It's a bit marred by the ending, I was expecting a bigger carnage, the mass battle spiders vs cops was over too quickly for my taste, and the whole thing ends quite hastily – I could have easily managed 20 minutes more – but these are minor flaws in the beauty of a film that is born once every three decades. Anyone who doesn't appreciate that is an arrogant scumbag and an enemy of the state and me. 9/10.
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Attack the Block for entomology. The scene of walking through the hallway to the garages, which felt like a challenge from Fort Boyard accompanied by shouts of allez, allez, vas-y, vas-y, served as a turning point where arachnophobia started to be somewhat forcibly replaced by capiophobia (fear of two-legged arthropods with pincers). At the same time, the inverse relationship began to be confirmed: the bigger the spider, the less authentic the sense of dread (the bathroom attack remained unsurpassed). When the problem on the outskirts of society was finally brought down, I remembered Kandisha by the duo of Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury and started wondering if there was something deeper to be found behind it...
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A very weak, generic genre film. A group of young adults are trapped in a spider's web along with the entire residential building due to one single mistake. In the place I watched it, they really tried hard and placed artificial spider webs and spiders, but that's pretty much all that can be remembered positively about it.
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Vermines is a bit like Arachnophobia in the French way. You get rather unconventional and not very likeable characters, a grimy slum setting and a very limited amount of humour, but you also get solid action, very indiscriminate spider terror and a few scenes that will make you uncomfortable in your seat. The film uses real creatures in many scenes, and when it goes into computer-generated effects, it's not noticeable at all, so the realistic visuals do a lot for the viewer's effect. There probably aren't that many good spider horror movies historically, but this one can easily count among them.
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The only thing worse than finding a spider in your apartment is losing a spider in your apartment. Just such an event in the film results in the infestation of a whole apartment building with venomous fiddlebacks (or whatever they were) from the basement to the attic, where the spiders multiply at a startling rate, each time growing significantly larger than their antecedents, in which case the film flirts a bit with science fiction at the end. The realistic setting of an apartment building in a social housing estate and the fresh, energetic approach of the young filmmaker are exactly what the arachno-horror genre need. After the long exposition with the introduction of the characters, the action gains proper intensity, which it constantly escalates so that some scenes border on being unbearable, especially for people who are repelled by spiders. Absolutely everyone will squirm in their seats. Vermin is the best spider horror movie since Arachnophobia from 1990.
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What an intense ride. I haven't squirmed in my seat like that in a long time. Vermines is an instant classic, right up there with Arachnophobia in the spider horror subgenre. The filmmakers nailed the perfect blend of practical effects, CGI, and live spiders, making it incredibly effective. If you have a severe fear of spiders, this film will leave you physically unsettled. I never expected something like this to come out of France, and even more surprising, it's a debut. I'm looking forward to seeing more from Vaniček in the future.
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I'm definitely not a fan of spiders, but my curiosity lured me to the cinema to see Infested, as I have a bit of a thing for animal horror movies (about overgrown crocodiles, snakes, boars, sharks, etc.). Sébastien Vaniček's film impresses with a soundtrack I would have expected in a film about drugs or the mafia rather than deadly eight-legged creatures - though drugs are often mentioned. As far as the action-horror level is concerned, it works on the whole; here I would highlight especially the scene with the flashing corridor, which gave me solid goosebumps. But the overall experience is noticeably marred by the characters and their actions, it was really hard to root for them to escape the "web of death".
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Objectively a strong 4*, but I can't help but go for a full score, as we haven’t seen a quality movie with spiders for 20 years, this is such a terribly intense, yet underrated and (for some reason??) forgotten genre that every addition is welcomed with open arms by all fans. And Sebastien Vaniček has done a truly incredible job of it, because Infested is top shit in every way, from the expensive visuals to the never-ending suspense to the excellent five leads, who can act and can be scared, I fully bought their emotions. The looks of the spiders is disgusting and arachnophobes can forget about the film as this is really quite unpleasant and can terrify even the most hardened. I also have to praise the certain "overkill" of the whole concept of evolving spiders as it opens the door to endless variety in terms of spider evolution in a few hours, so we get all the different sized creatures at once, which is a big plus. The film has momentum, a solid pace, and expensive visuals – what more could you ask for? Not to just praise, I also have to critically say that the film has quite a few flaws: sometimes people act stupid, I'm a bit disappointed that we didn't get more heart-attack inducing scenes, where, for example, the spiders would have crawled more on the characters and we as viewers could have enjoyed more physical disgust on ourselves and felt them behind the screen, and it's also a great pity that the finale doesn't actually explain the whole thing and showing us how the situation was resolved. However, due to the absolute drought in this (sub)genre, this is a full five out of the park and I absolutely cannot understand why more films with spiders aren't made, as when a solid budget is added to the mix, half the battle is won and there's always a fanbase for this type of movies. Anyone who doesn't see spiders everywhere they go for a few days after this film probably didn't watch it right and should repeat the process with headphones and a darkened room. Great.
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Sebastien Vaniček, an unknown filmmaker, has delivered an interesting debut. Making an "animal" horror film isn’t easy, especially for an inexperienced beginner, but I can say he did quite well. The film benefits greatly from its setting. The grimy apartment building on the outskirts of Paris adds a significant touch of authenticity. The casting also deserves praise, as the actors delivered convincing performances, especially during the most adrenaline-pumping sequences. The action was stylishly filmed. At first, I found myself smiling, but as it built up, it became increasingly unsettling, which I appreciate. So why only three stars? The ending felt incredibly rushed and poorly executed, and it really affects the overall impression. Still, it was a great movie theater experience. I give it 6.5/10.
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A pleasantly scary spider horror movie after a long time, which brilliantly exploits everything we dislike about spiders - everything :) The atmosphere is gloomy, the jump scares are just right, quite disturbing, and overall, it's a fine piece of work.
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