Nicolás Delgadillo Knotfest Jul 10, 2026

Increasingly claustrophobic and with a solid enough investment in its ill-fated gang of characters, Infested manages to stand out from the very crowded subgenre it’s playing in.

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Stephen A. Russell ScreenHub Dec 10, 2024

Emerging director Sébastien Vaniček’s skittering debut rocks Attack the Block vibes, except with earthly eight-legged menaces instead of aliens ... disturbingly good fun, it will leave you itching for more.

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Kevin Wight The Wee Review Sep 4, 2024 3

Sébastien Vanicek‘s debut is a little oddly paced, but has a class-conscious core and a pleasantly anarchist ACAB streak.

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Ygraine Hackett-Cantabrana What a Scream Podcast Sep 3, 2024 5/5

Infested is bound to have viewers constantly checking their shoes and the dark corners of their own house for any eight legged beasties.

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Whang Yee Ling The Straits Times (Singapore) Aug 30, 2024 4/5

There is more to this survival drama than creepy-crawlies – although, even as just a creature feature, Infested is tense and energetic.

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Jeffrey M. Anderson Combustible Celluloid Jul 20, 2024 3.5/4

It's a constantly surprising, shocking, and satisfying creature feature.

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Joshua Polanski Boston Hassle Jul 4, 2024

generates trepidation by using the same real-life evolutionary ques that make the small eight-legged critters scary in the first place: surprise, speed, size. It also flirts with some bigger conceptual ideas to varying degrees of success.

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Bee Delores B-Sides & Badlands Jul 2, 2024 4/5

Packed with eight-legged creepy crawlies, the film sits between Arachnophobia and Kingdom of the Spiders. Infested guarantees to raise the hairs on the nape of your neck, make your skin crawl, and upset your stomach.

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Rocco T. Thompson Daily Dead Jul 2, 2024 4/5

The sort of movie that’s impressive as a technical exercise (...) but it’s the groundwork laid by a good script enacted by good performers that make it stick with you like a skittering stowaway unobtrusively depositing a clutch of eggs in your pocket.

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Walter Chaw Film Freak Central Jun 28, 2024 3.5/4

Infested is about how neglect and misunderstanding always end in tragedy: for children, naturally, but also for entire societies...

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Erik Childress Movie Madness Podcast May 21, 2024 2.5/4

The film works when it is focused on the creepy crawlies – the smaller the creepier – but loses its way down the stretch into an unfocused bout with social commentary about the power structure being worse than giant murderous spiders.

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Sarah Vincent Boston Movie News May 11, 2024

The theme of residents versus cops may remind some viewers of the “Rec” Spanish film franchise, but instead of using the residents as obstacles and threats to sympathetic outsiders investigating the phenomenon, the residents are centered

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Andy Klein FilmWeek (LAist) May 10, 2024

Creepy, icky, and pretty effective.

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JK Sooja Common Sense Media May 10, 2024

The characters feel real and organic in Infested, and the performances are noteworthy.

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Josh Bell The Inlander (Spokane, WA) May 10, 2024 3/4

Features some of the most skin-crawling, anxiety-inducing scenes in any recent horror movie, executed with impressive skill for a feature debut.

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Daniel Rester Battle Royale With Cheese May 9, 2024

Despite its third act, Vanicek’s film is still one of the best spider horror films ever.

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Stephanie Malone Morbidly Beautiful May 7, 2024 4/5

This potent creature feature foregoes camp and B-movie playfulness in favor of making you squirm out of your chair. It's one of the most effective spider horror movies — one of the most effective creature features, period, for that matter — in decades.

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C.H. Newell Father Son Holy Gore May 5, 2024 4/5

What makes Vanicek’s Infested so smart is that in amongst the creepy arachnid terror lies a broader, heavier theme concerning social problems in France stemming from the country’s violent colonial history.

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Daniel Gorman In Review Online May 3, 2024

A genuinely merciless thriller, and absolutely the best creature feature in recent memory. Fair warning for the skittish and the arachnophobic.

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Rob Hunter Film School Rejects May 3, 2024

Infested wants to remind you why you were scared of spiders as a kid — and why you should still be terrified of them even as an adult.

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