Infestation

Plot synopsis:
Our hero, Cooper, awakes to find himself nauseous, weak and covered in webbing, hanging from the ceiling of an office where, just minutes ago, he started his new job. As he struggles out of his slimy prison he comes face to face with his opponent - a grotesque, powerful and very angry bug. All 3 ft of it. And so begins a hideous, nail-biting, comedic, all-action adventure to find a safe haven while constantly outwitting an infestation of monstrous proportions. As Cooper embarks on his journey, he befriends a ragtag group of survivors including Sara, a feisty attractive female. Although the situation is dire, Cooper cant help himself from trying to solve his dating problem while trying to save his life. Will they make it to safety before they are picked off one by one? And what other surprises are in store for our group of unlikely heroes? [D-Man2010]***************
From KrystelClaireCooper (Christopher "Chris" Marquette) hates his job. He works at a call center, but he is rude, pretends to be the manager and does lazy things. His manager, Maureen (Deborah Geffner) calls him to her office, and fires him, to which he replies that he wants to quit. The manager insists on firing him. The manager insists on firing him immediately. Suddenly, a noisy scrutch is heard.Cooper wakes up. He is inside of a white cocoon. A huge cocrachoac stings onto him and then leaves. After waking up, dizzy and confused, Cooper throws up a white liquid. He wakes up completely and wakes Maureen up. Maureen insists in looking for her daughter, who was about to pick her up. They wake up energetic doctor Sara (Brooke Nevin) - who "shows her appreciation to Cooper" by attacking him with an anti-rape spry, Maureen's daughter, student Leechee (Linda Park), strong but slow-witted Huge (E. Quincy Sloan) - who would have killed Sara if a crawling bug had not attacked them - and dumb blonde Cindy (Kinsey Packard) and some more people also enclosed on those cocoons. A flying bug appears and takes Maureen. "Al" (Wesley Thompson) is stung by one of the flying bugs, although at the moment he looks fine. The two guys who leave in a white van are attacked by some huge flying bugs towards the North End. Cindy agrees as her brother Chad and his wife live there. First Cindy wants to leave with the two guys, then she changes her mind, and when the van crashes one of the bugs to death, she runs after them so that they can take her away. However, two flying bugs kill the guys. Cindy is alive and she is kind of nice to Cooper, who can't believe his luck.Cooper want to go to his paranoid dad, a retired military man who has a bunker under his home. Leeche is the only one who stays behind with the intention of waking up as many people as possible. They capture a bug, and Leeche has analysed its poison: the substance which put everybody to sleep also has proteins, similar to those present in human pregnancies. On their way, Sara calls Cooper solisipstic, which means kind of selfish and lazy. Al, Hugo, Cooper, Sara and Cindy reach Chad (Mike Straub)'s home. There, several cocoons are joined together, as with an intention. Susan (Daniela Tonova), Chad's wife, is in one of the cocoons, is woken up, and throws up the white stuff as usual. Suddenly, Chad appears: the upper part of the body has Chad's face, but the lower part of the body is that of a 8-legged gigantic spider. Chad attacks them, kills Susan and is about to eat Cindy when Hugo and Cooper kill it. Cooper is hurt in one of his legs.At that home, Al scares Sara. Al realises that he'll become one of the huge bugs in due time. They keep on walking. They hide from some flying bugs. Cindy is angry that Cooper and Sara hold hands, so she shouts to attract the flying bugs. Al kills Cindy because of what she has done. The things take Sara away.They finally reach the home of Cooper's dad. They find him. Ethan (Ray Wise) is still angry with Cooper. They argue about the map. Ethan is looking for his little dog, Lucy, calling it Cooper's sister. Al becomes a huge spider bug at that moment. Hugo kills him because he had promised Al to do so. Lucy has also become a smaller bug. The noise attracts more flying bugs, so they have to run underground. Ethan turns off the lights, and Cooper remembers how he met Sara some days ago and gave her his phone number, although at that moment she might have thought he was a jerk.Cooper wants to go to the nest to save Sara. Ethan doesn't want him to go. Hugo goes after Cooper, although he wants Hugo to stay with his dad.When Cooper is taking a pee, he is stopped by an armed man. He takes Cooper to the local prison and puts him into jail. A white trash girl (Diane Gaeta) is putting people in jail waiting for them to become spigery buds. In the jail nearby, a Puerto Rican Man (Ismael "East" Carlo) tells him that Leeche woke many people up, but that she died in an explosion. He is the only one still alive from that group.Cooper tells the men: Jed (Jim Cody Williams), and Roger (Bru Muller) to check under their undershirts for the sting. It so happens that Ethan has been stung.The Puerto Rico man has become a bug, and he kills the white trash girl. Ethan kills Jed and Roger.Sara wakes up in the nest. She's been able to free herself from the cocoon somehow. She's got a knife, and that's all.Ethan says that the red smoke is very flammable, so he will go to the nest and will set it in fire. Bugs arrive because of the noise. Hugo, Ethan and Cooper leave riding bikes. They reach the nest. Inside, a child-bug screams in order to betray Sara's presence. Sara runs away, and finds Ethan, who has started to feel his stomach become pulp. Sara has seen the queen, who is constantly laying eggs. She will show Ethan the way as soon as he tells her that he is on a one-way route. At first, they can't see the queen, as it's hanging down. The queen attacks Ethan. Only deaf Hugo can resist the Queen's cry for help. All the flying bugs swarm to the nest. Finally, Cooper presses the button, his father dies with the nest which has exploded in fire.Soon, Cooper and Sara have become an item. Hugo is also there, taking care of them.However, soon they see something strange - the audience is left to believe that they've found out another nest.

Tags: romantic, murder, flashback

Review:
The jerk hero was actually likable in his purposely annoying way, very funny, and the story happens quickly, so you are in the bug infestation, what the heck is going on, just after the main guys humorful intro.The other survivors are decent, the story paces along well, no argument lasts too long and no character however annoying, steals the show.
No reviews yet for this little gem, so I'll go ahead.I went in expecting a low budget campy horror B-movie and wow, I certainly did not expect a movie that good in overall.Most of the actors are quite good, even the extras, and the main character and his entourage are surprisingly well developed for this kind of movie.I wouldn't call the movie fast=paced, but the action in well maintained throughout and starts after less than 10 minutes, so no long buildup, the bugs are there at the beginning, you get to know more about them as the movie goes so there are no long boring explanations.The CGI is very well done and keeps you in the movie and there are plenty of bugs of a few kinds.But what really did the movie for me was the dark humor, think Shaun of the Dead, but with insects.
Even if the movie has a serious tone, you always get some well done jokes here and there, mostly by the likable anti-hero that just seems to try so hard.A must see for the horror/comedy fans and for the critters fans in general..
Breaking free, he wakes up several of his office mates and somehow ends up leading them in a dangerous crosstown trek toward safer environs, battling - and outwitting - giant murderous bugs - and worse - all the way.
It's actually very well written; kind of a second-string Shaun of the Dead (so, in other words, better than most movies I've paid to see in theaters lately).The plot is fairly unpredictable for this genre, meaning that it goes basically where everyone watching it wants it to go in the end, but it gets there in a way you won't entirely see coming (I call BS on reviews that claim otherwise).
While they are all making the best of their roles, Ray Wise obviously helps the movie a lot!
This latest Sci-Fi channel production has moments, but not enough.Horror comedies can be done well (Lake Placid, Tremors, Anachnaphobia), but the director and writer better know what they're doing, since the balance of the two genres is difficult.
Characters constantly argue over anything and everything, to a point where your ears start to bleed.Watchable, but not in the same league as some movies of the horror/comedy blended genre..
It's a solid little movie that has the big advantage of not taking itself too seriously while delivering the goods through a good script, many nice touches and some good plot twists.The predictable and low-budget-showing finale doesn't detract from enjoying this funny and creepy enough piece that enjoys itself remembering the old day's creature features (Tarantula and Them!
Infestation is surprisingly not one of though cheap TV films, instead director Kyle Rankin delivers a well made piece of entertainment with some gross effects, great locations and cast.
Nevertheless, the supporting cast are fine, Chris Marquette gives a good performance as the likably flawed anti-hero Cooper and Kinsey Packard's brief appearance as Cindy is notable.
Ever reliable Ray Wise is on form.It's road movie feel, the character trying to get from one place to another gives it a grounding and substantial atmosphere that many of the blockbuster films lack.
While the ending is predicable there's enough gore moments and surprises to keep you entertained.Overall it's good fun that's more A-film pretending to be a B-film like Tremors as appose to some DTV channel shlock..
I Was really looking forward to this movie as I am fan of killer insect movies, They are fun, cheesy and funny a lazy guy who is just being sacked by his boss then all of sudden they hear this loud ringing noise so they cover their ears and then he wakes up covered in web and soon find out that the earth as been taken over by giant bugs that been taken or sting, when sting the worst it to happen.This has to be the best Scfi movie ever,made while you are watching this you will be thinking of 8 legged freaks as it kinda as the same feel to the movie also I did think it be more funny then it was but it still a lot funny moment.The death scenes are not gory or nasty but still very good, (wow really) The bugs are big which can fly and are blind, they can only here sound (which i really liked as it remind me of Tremours) also transforming from human to bug (when human change the human face start to look like zombie face and the human have bug legs)transforming is good but not great.For a TV movie I did not expect the really good acting in this movie and did not expect the nudity for about 8 second.if you like 8 Legged freaks you should give this movie watch.
The acting is awful, the special effects are awkward and uninteresting, and the plot is just plain idiotic.The way the characters react to their unexpected situation (finding themselves in the middle of the invasion of earth by man-sized bugs) is completely unrealistic; there's no shock and no apparent fear.
The rest of the cast is OK, with only the always-good Ray Wise as a standout.I'm tempted to give it a higher score, and if I were just to score it compared to other low-budget sci-fi/horror films of the 2000s, it would certainly rate higher.
This is an entertaining film, certainly 'cult' material (and no bad thing for that), it did not 'fall in line' with the usual teen/romp/scary movie rubbish, and it is just a little bit different..
They decide to go outside...Bad idea.Plan 2 sees them joining up to head across town to the home of one of the characters, a guy named Cooper whose Dad is a crazed war veteran with an underground bunker where they should be safe.Along the way the group end up as a 5-some, but really it is Cooper as the slacker office idiot and the daughter of his ex-boss (both because he was fired and because she was eaten) Sarah who matter, as from the start they are destined to be together.
Sorry "the rest", you are all bug food!Sarah is taken by the bugs just before they reach Cooper's pad, meaning he must save her before he turns on the lave lamp and throws all his best moves at her in his stale smelling bedroom where the walls are covered in posters (I'm just guessing he is like every other early 20s guy who still lives with his parents), so it is on to the nest!Look this is a nice little low budget effort so the plot doesn't matter once you've read the People Vs Giant Bugs bit.
Being a low budget flick it is also good to see that they covered some of the bare minimum elements that such a film requires.Those include:* - Bad jokes.* - Boobies.* - Violence.* - Funny and gross creatures.I liked the ending too, all in all this is an ideal mid week rental.
After freeing himself and fighting off an overgrown dung-beetle he manages to rescue a group of rag-tag individuals, who now have to survive in a world overtaken by giant insects.Never one to expect much from a sci-fi channel movie I was quick off my blocks to disregard this one as a certified turd.
Nonetheless this is one of those tongue-in-cheek movies, which manages to go the distance at endearing its audience, so all such flaws are easily forgiven.It may not be the funniest comedy horror at there and at times it does feel like a sub-par TV movie, but the overall enjoyment shows that "Infestation" manages to pull off what it aimed at.
It won't become a classic or be covered in glory, but the director has to be commended for almost flawlessly executing the game-plan and delivering a sweet, charming monster flick for an entertaining Saturday evening.The movie ends with a real cliffhanger and I for one will be sure to check up the follow-up to this below-the-radar little gem..
If you can do that, you'll have a lot of fun.The first thing I noticed is that the story starts really quickly (a rarity these days, even in the horror movie genre) - the staff in an office building wake up in cocoons, only to find that giant bugs have pretty much taken over everywhere and are snacking on the helpless employees.
this whole film is - kind of generic - but in a good way, of course!But, you didn't really sit down to a film about giant, hungry bugs to see detailed character development and story arcs, did you?
However, and I don't know whether this was just me, but after the initial viewing of the bugs and how CGI they look, either the special effects got better, or I just got used to them, as the interaction between insect and victim looked a lot more 'real' as the film went along.If the movie has a (human) 'high point' it's the inclusion of Ray Wise ('Twin Peaks' fans will know him straight away).
Yes, it does feel a bit like a 'made-for-TV' movie on the Sci-Fi channel at times, but, if you love good, fun, monster-munching B-movies then this one should definitely be added to your collection.
If you like a mix of horror and of comedy this one is for you: giant insects attack our world and a new hero is born - a office worker and some of his colleagues/friends take on the fight for survival.No new classic but a good one timer..
A reasonably fun big-bug B-movie..
After freeing several other immobilised individuals, including his boss's sexy daughter Sara (Brooke Nevin), Cooper and company set out to locate their nearest and dearest.Oversized insects have been terrorising the world of movies ever since the '50s; Infestation doesn't offer anything particularly new to the genre, warming up a hodge-podge of ingredients borrowed from many a big bug movie (Starship Troopers and Eight Legged Freaks automatically spring to mind).The resultant narrative is a bit of a mess, hindered by awkward editing, pointless exchanges of dialogue that affect the pacing, and plot threads which end abruptly; however, plenty of huge chitinous creatures (including several cool human/insect hybrids), a likable cast, a smattering of gore, and even a spot of gratuitous female nudity (courtesy of blonde weather girl Cindy, played by Kinsey Packard) ensure that Infestation proves to be a reasonably enjoyable slice of B-movie nonsense nonetheless..
As a horror monster movie, it is not very scary, however it is abundant in good special effects and feels a little like Cloverfield.
Not great, but good enough to not be distracting, and this was really the key that made the movie watchable, since there were plenty of giant insects attacking people.
I didn't much care for the characters apart from Wise's, but the movie kept the action going at a good pace anyway and there weren't too many scenes where I got bored..
Laugh out loud movie , cracking good monsters and Twin Peak,s Ray Wise.
It also has a bit of a zombie movie feel to it, along the lines of "28 Days After." Shot in Bulgaria with a no-name cast, "Infestation" is fast-paced and down and dirty, with plenty of laughs and thrills..
The movie takes some from the Aliens, When-Bugs-Attack, and Zombie genres, and the mix is certainly enjoyable.
Well to tell you the truth when I saw "Infestation" was a SYFY flick i was a bit hesitant in watching it at all,MOST SYFY movies are pretty.....BAD!
All of the acting was good..and for the most part the effects are decent as well...However,at times the CG Work was a little shaky...But,because i expected so much worse....it didn't bother me...in fact..I really didn't notice it too much..Humor was on key and the fact that they quoted one of my favorite characters-Dr. Hannibal Lecter "Hannibal the cannibal-Lecter" helped me appreciate the film a little more I guess...All in all this film is a nice little,what i would call "Creepy-clencher-afternoon-nothing to do-laugh a long."...I know that last bit was corny but, I thought I would try and get creative at 6 am...cheers!
OK?" The movie starts off well, fast-paced and relatively fun, then slows down inexplicably (money for the bug effects ran out?).
I like this genre that generally doesn't take itself too seriously, is actually funny and never intends to be a Syfy movie of the week – those are the absolute worse and they're never even "so-bad-it's-good." I admit, this one had me at Christopher (or Chris) Marquette whom I've liked (yes, like) since Freddy Vs. Jason.
(My bad, even I choose movies at times for good looking actors.
And I recognized where the "humor" was supposed to be, and my suspicion was the shoddy editing job took a lot of the intentions away.Sure, I wasn't expecting a horror classic, but from the (false) advertising, I was expecting at least a good and fun time with an updated bug B-Movie.
They seemed like they believed in the project and writer/director – so Kudos to them.What starts off as a normal day in Nowhere, USA (but, of course, filmed overseas,) Nobody Cooper (Marquette) heads into work to slack and get fired.
Cooper awakes and frees himselfI'll stop here.#1: They begin with the cocooning shot, I'm guessing for effect of what's to come, but there was no "Several days earlier" statement because following is that same scene is the normal setting in the same room.
Infestation is a great little science fiction horror movie.
Unlike some movies that tease you and don't give you a glimpse of the monster until the end, this one dives right in so that giant killer insects are running and flying around in broad daylight nearly from moment one, and that makes this one heck of a weird flick.
Sounds pretty heavy for a movie about giant mutant insects that are trying to take over the world, right?
It is supposed to be a horror-comedy but this is neither horror or comedy and is just some haphazard attempt at movie making.For some unexplained reason, large CGI bugs, which appear to look like over-sized beetles and wasps, have taken over the earth and cocooned everyone in sight.Movie starts on a typical work day and within 5 minutes a large ear-piercing noise is heard which knocks everyone unconscious.
The journey is dangerous and more revelations are to be made, but I'll stop here, don't want to give too much away!I was quite surprised, for a B-movie type film, it's pretty well made.
The journey is dangerous and more revelations are to be made, but I'll stop here, don't want to give too much away!I was quite surprised, for a B-movie type film, it's pretty well made.
Quincy Sloan as Hugo, Wesley Thompson as Albert, Linda Park as Leechee and Ray Wise as Ethan (he had the best comedy lines).This wasn't a bad movie, but it wasn't great either.
Quincy Sloan as Hugo, Wesley Thompson as Albert, Linda Park as Leechee and Ray Wise as Ethan (he had the best comedy lines).This wasn't a bad movie, but it wasn't great either.
So, over all, it's got a few laughs, the CGI is pretty good but it has some poor effects towards the end.
So, over all, it's got a few laughs, the CGI is pretty good but it has some poor effects towards the end.
The main character is supposed to come off as funny (I guess) but ends up being just obnoxious, like if Ryan Reynolds had his IQ bumped down 30 points or so.Worst of all, however, is that this movie doesn't know what it wants to be.
Giant bug movie, with a well cast Christopher Marquette as Cooper, an office employee who, upon being fired from his job, is knocked unconscious by an intense sound, finding himself(and everyone else)cocooned by large insects which use humans for sustenance(among other things).
Marquette's character has no real direction in his life, no goals, and is kind of a loser, but, as expected, Nevin(a psyche major who is awakened thanks to her mom's insistence that Marquette find her and save her)warms up to him(as does the viewer because, as these movies often do, he becomes the unlikely hero who must find Nevin when she captured by the insects, finding herself inside the giant bug nest).
"Infestation" is a fairly enjoyable and entertaining Sci-Fi Channel Creature Feature.**SPOILERS**Awakening from a cocoon imprisonment, Cooper, (Christopher Marquette) and Sarah, (Brooke Nevin) finds themselves among other survivors Cindy, (Kinsey Packard) Hugo, (E.
Other good scenes include the first escape attempt, where the bugs swarm down over the group and causing massive damage involving a moving truck and citizens nearby, which is a lot of fun and provides some great action based on that encounter.
Even more encounters later on, from a series of encounters at houses to scenes in the establishments left after the bugs' conquest, there's no real shortage of action once the film decides to inject them into the frame, giving off a lot of fun moments that are enjoyable all the way around.
Another plus is the bug's design, which is quite fun and definitely gives them a purpose for being in a horror film, and they're able to do a lot that drives the film's action forward nicely.
The action is fast, fun and furious, getting a lot accomplished in the process and the inherent suspense in the situation is good, making for a great finale to a fun film.