Infested
USA
2002. Director: Josh Olson
Cast: Amy Jo Johnson, Robert McNeill, Zach Galligan, Daniel Jenkins
A group of spoiled thirtysomething
yuppies gather in a house in the country to mourn the loss of a mutual
friend who has comitted suicide violently. Suddenly they're all attacked
by monstrous killer-flies and transformed into zombies with superhuman
strengths. The dead friend's widow Amy Jo and some other dude (McNeill)
who has see too many of these movies are left inside the house while
their possessed friends are trying to get inside. Now the two must find
a spot high enough for their cellphone to get a signal so they can call
for help, so they climb up on the roof of the house.
It's not easy to make much sense out of Infested, it's just weird. And cheap. Sometimes it doesn't even look like a horror movie at all, sometimes it does. The ensemble acts as if in some TV-soap while heroine Amy Jo Johnson, who is actually straight from Felicity, is the only one acting as if she was in a horror movie. It's hard to tell if it's supposed to be a parody of Night of the Living Dead, a parody of The Big Chill or something else totally.
The weirdest thing, though, is that the film is not bad. The characters are enjoyable enough and the dialogue is witty and fresh and full of clever homages to all sorts of movies. The computer effects are hopelessy bad, though, but perhaps that's the whole point as it ads to the fun. There's also a painfully overlong scene with a guy disecting his own knee, a severed head, a guy cut in half and Amy Jo taking a shower in the midst of the terror. Go check it out.
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