Infestation (2009)

Director: Kyle Rankin

Starring: Christopher Rodriguez Marquette, Brooke Nevin, Kinsey Packard

A slacker awakes to find himself weak and wrapped in a webbing; after realizing that the world has been taken over by giant alien insects, he wakes a ragtag group of strangers and together they fight for survival.

Just as Cooper (Christopher Rodriguez Marquette) is about to get fired, him and his boss hear a screeching sound, and blacks out. When Cooper comes to again, he is in a cocoon. He finds the rest of his colleagues in cocoons as well and frees them, but he is attacked by a giant bug.

‘Infestation’ doesn’t waste time before throwing the viewer into the deep end, with characters being attacked by giant bugs left, right and center. These bugs even attacks cars, and fly away with some of their victims. And so the ordeal starts for Cooper and a handful of survivors who go on the run trying to escape these bugs. The kill scenes are unsympathetic and intentionally funny.

It’s like ‘Skyline’, but with bugs instead of aliens (ok, ‘Infestation’ was first, but ‘Skyline’ was more popular). Or wait, later characters even have zombie traits, so it becomes more like a zombie movie… but with bugs. This is a real B-movie so the bugs are not very realistic. They look like huge props. The acting is also your typical B-movie performances.

Look, although this is not a great movie, it serves its purpose well: it’s entertaining. There’s humour, there’s a bit of horror, there’s action, so yup, it is a lot of fun. If you’re into this genre, though, I’d rather recommend ‘Eight Legged Freaks’, which was a hell of a lot more fun!

Would I watch it again? I don’t think so.