But the best thing I can say about Infested is that I squirmed in my seat as if I were sitting on a chair made out of upturned nails for the majority of the running time.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 30, 2024

The kind of film where a viewer feels compelled to shake out their pant leg afterwards to make sure there aren’t any critters hiding in there, which, on an elemental level, makes Infested a success.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Apr 26, 2024

Vanicek’s first feature is an impressive debut, driven by an energetic fright.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 26, 2024

An instant minor genre classic, it is fun and then some — a conceptually unremarkable but resourceful, energetic, stylish and good-humored creature feature with above-average human character interest.

| Apr 26, 2024

There are no fresh ideas in the French creepy-crawler “Infested,” yet this first feature from Sébastien Vanicek scurries forward with such pep and purpose that its shortcomings are easily forgivable.

| Apr 25, 2024

If Infested had given us a little more reason to invest in its human specimens than in the blunt mechanics of its genre trappings, then maybe some of the commentary would have clung to us like the webs do to the spiders’ victims.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 21, 2024

Maybe you’ve experienced the side effects of spider cinema before, but you’ve never suffered them as thoroughly imagined as this spin on a classic fear factor.

| Original Score: B+ | Apr 8, 2024

It’s a nifty idea, but it works mainly because director Sébastien Vaniček, making his feature debut, understands how to shoot and cut suspense and terror.

| Sep 9, 2023