A French creature feature that boasts some nifty monster designs but wants for endearing protagonists and doesn't really know when to quit, Sebastien Vanicek's "Infested" clocks in at a padded 106 minutes off the back of a limited premise to gain plaudits it doesn't really deserve, but it's still not a bad time. One thing that is consistently enjoyable about it is in the way in which the effortlessly multiplying spiders who represent the movie's constant threat are able to transform the apartment block where they run loose over the course of the film's runtime, to the point where it ultimately resembles a haunted house contraption that its human inhabitants must perilously navigate. The movie itself has elements of "Attack the Block" and "[Rec]" to it, although these similarities aren't ultimately flattering. I don't really understand the hype for this movie at all, to be honest, but the effects work is definitely praiseworthy.
