INFESTATION is more of a comedy/horror than a straight horror movie, but
that's cool cause the main dude, Cooper, is actually pretty funny. It starts
out with him at his telemarketer job slacking off and getting fired. Right
then a loud noise knocks everybody out and when he wakes (yea, it's a lot like
the first chapter of Wyndham's "The Day of the Triffids") everybody is
cocooned. Cooper claws out of his webbing, fights some giant beetles and saves
a few other people including the hot Brooke Nevin. They do the standard
post-apocalyptic stuff, but what makes this movie stand out from the dozens of
other insect/animals/alien attack movies is that INFESTATION is actually good!
Fresh writing, imaginative action scenes, believable characters that are fun
to watch. A lot of movies in the comedy/horror genre are disappointing
(SLITHER,
SHAWN OF THE DEAD, BLACK SHEEP, FIDO) because the writing is forced and lame, but I thought
INFESTATION was very well made and earns the right to live in the shadow of
the genre classics like
TREMORS,
GREMLINS,
DEAD ALIVE
and
THE RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD. I said live in the shadow, not alongside! It's a good movie, but let's not
go crazy.
If you liked
EIGHT LEGGED FREAKS
for what it was, then you'll enjoy INFESTATION.
