aka Infested
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Caleb is in the middle of some personal turmoil thanks to cutting ties with his best friend and a shaky relationship with his sister involving the apartment their mother left them when she passed away. At thirty years old, he’s pretty damn aimless but outside of a shady shoe selling business, he finds a certain joy in collecting exotic animals. That’s how a very rare Middle Eastern arachnid comes into his possession. The extremely venomous spider escapes confinement and soon his rundown French apartment complex is infested with the vicious bastards that are not only growing in number but also in size. The place is quarantined off and the residents are fighting for their lives as the big-ass creepy crawlers have a field day with the lockdown feeding ground they’re now calling home. A distinct sense of place really helps this one develop beyond its more than competent creature feature foundation. Characters feel genuinely lived-in with minimal introduction and allow ya to sympathize with the horrific situation playing out as everything goes to hell. Theó Christine and Lisa Nyarko are convincing siblings, hitting the flawed highs and lows of that relationship along with the small group of friends and acquaintances that never ring false. One of my major qualms with any digital interpretation of large insects is that they get the movements wrong, not here. These bad boys actually have that almost otherworldly motion as they skitter across everything and attack. They also don’t get too big, which I’ll always find far more disturbing than something small becoming colossal.
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