Infestation

The last of Creature-Feature Friday for the month and I couldn't resist something with large creepy crawlies even though it probably would have been a good fit for a Wacky Wednesday too.

Infestation plays on everyone's fear of large and ferocious insects. Cooper is kind of a loser, although we don't know it yet, he recently lost his mom, and his dad is a hard-ass. So when Cooper loses his job, there seems to be no hope for him. In the firing meeting with his boss, an ear-piercing sound afflicts the entire office and the film jumps right into the action after that. In the next scene, there are a bunch of people wrapped in cocoons with very large insects jamming appendages into them and excreting some kind of fluid. Cooper wakes from his catatonic state, escapes from the cocoon, vomits the fluid and is attacked by what appears to be a large beetle. He rescues some fellow workers and discovers that the entire city has succumbed to this swarm of bugs. 

Cooper in the office with co-workers in cocoons

Some of the insects turn people into this. Yikes! 

It had some pretty well done special effects - just the right amount of cheese. The story is pretty typical as end-of-the-world monster movies go but with a good sense of humor about it. There is a love story to go along with it, which, meh. I enjoyed seeing Ray Wise (Reaper, How I Met Your Mother). He plays a good tough father that doesn't easily show his emotions or connect with his son. Otherwise, most of the acting and story development was kind of blah. 

Ray Wise

NO! Not Fluffykins! 

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