Stephen King has spent decades writing his own horror stories, though there are still new genre films coming out that leave him impressed. The legendary author has given some high praise to Infested, a new horror film that’s streaming on Shudder.
On his X account, King shared a post that includes a brief synopsis for the spider-centric horror film. He also noted how it’s both “scary” and “gross,” but at the same time, it’s nicely done. As King put it in his X post, “INFESTED (Shudder): Spiders, some as big as puppies, overrun a French apartment building. Scary, gross, well made. (French, with English subtitles).”
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As noted by King, the film is French but comes with English subtitles on Shudder. Its official synopsis reads, “On the brink of 30, Kaleb faces unparalleled loneliness, estranged from his sister and best friend over an inheritance dispute. His fascination with exotic creatures leads him to a venomous discovery — a spider that soon turns his flat into a terrifying webbed prison.”
Critics Are Loving Infested at Rotten Tomatoes
What’s even better for Infested beyond its endorsement from Stephen King is the high score it has garnered on Rotten Tomatoes. Critics have given high praise to the film, resulting in a score of 96%. One review (per Matt Donato at Paste Magazine) declared Infested to be the “best spider-centric horror movie since Arachnophobia,” which is still considered by many to be the best of them all. Reviewer Cody Leach also said that the film “delivers some of the most heart-pounding creepy crawly horror I’ve ever seen.”
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In an interview with ComicBook.com, director Sébastien Vaniček said of the movie’s tone, “Because spider movies have kind of a bad reputation, they are always B-movies, and spiders are big tarantulas and they scream like humans and it’s always funny, and I wanted to do something realistic with spiders and to be really, really frightening but using spiders that everybody knows; they are not so exotic. You know their shape here. Everybody has seen these kinds of spiders in their living room someday.”
He added, “So the first thing was to have spiders that you know, so these spiders with big legs and not so much hair was the first step, and I have to be realistic, so with Florent [Bernard], my co-author, we took all the things that spiders have in nature… and we’d said, ‘Okay, let’s use this, let’s use this.’ We just did plus 20%, plus 30%, but it’s based on nature, we just exaggerated it in order to have an entertaining movie and a promising movie.”
Infested stars Théo Christine, Finnegan Oldfield, Jérôme Niel, Sofia Lesaffre, and Lisa Nyarko. It is directed by Sébastien Vaniček.
Infested is streaming on Shudder.
Source: Stephen King on X
Infested (2024)
Set in a remote forest, a weekend getaway turns into a nightmarish fight for life when a deadly parasite infests a group of campers. As the infection takes hold, the group is forced to confront not only the horrors within but also each other, revealing the dark side of human nature when pushed to the limits.
- Director
- Sébastien Vanicek
- Release Date
- April 26, 2024
- Cast
- Théo Christine , Sofia Lesaffre , Jérôme Niel , Lisa Nyarko , Finnegan Oldfield , Marie-Philomene , Nga
- Writers
- Sébastien Vanicek , Florent Bernard
- Runtime
- 106 Minutes
- Studio(s)
- My Box Films
- Distributor(s)
- Shudder
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