Shawn Van Horn has been a Senior Features Author for Collider since 2022 with a focus on horror, and 90s TV and movies.
The Big Picture Once upon a time, creature features were a popular subgenre of horror. Everything from Jaws to Cujo to Tremors did big business, along with a lot of more silly entries. We're looking at you Sharknado! When done right, a creature feature can be terrifying, as the humans must pay for their sins when the animals of the Earth seek their revenge. This year saw the release of the French horror film, Infested, from first time director Sébastien Vaniček.
Some spider creature features are better than others, of course. 1955's Tarantula was among the first, a dated but creepy film. An underrated one is the William Shatner led Kingdom of the Spiders in 1977. More recent entries include 2002's silly horror comedy Eight Legged Freaks, and this year's surprisingly effective Sting.
Infested gives the viewer the simple but easily effective scares of having someone slowly put their shoe on, not knowing what sits inside, ready to bite. But the film also goes bigger, with spiders jumping at and tackling people, little ones getting under the skin of their human host victims, then bursting out, and in what might be the most pulse pounding sequence, our heroes having to walk through a darkened hallway where the spiders sit in their webs.
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