Infested poster interview
Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT The spider-based horror genre continues to enjoy a creepy resurgence with Infested.
The Concept Of Arachnophobia Intrigued Vaniček & Inspired Infested While at the heart of many movies throughout the years, spiders have rarely been the focus of genuine horror movies, lest they leave those who live with arachnophobia completely unnerved.
And above that, I wanted to have the best first feature movie possible, to have a tense movie, to have a movie that makes you feel a lot of things. That's what I aimed for during 15 years of doing short movies with my friends. I didn't go to a cinema school or anything, I just did movies with my friends, and I was always like, "Yeah, we have to be intense, let's work on sound.
Now that I'm in the US, I'm really happy, but the first goal was to hit hard in France, because we never have genre films, we never have horror movies, we never have spider movies, this was the first time. So, we wanted to do the best movie possible, so I needed to work with the best human beings possible. They were really, really good actors, but it's not enough, you have to put everything in this movie, and these guys, we had a contract with each other.
With these real spiders on the set, the movie's cast did ultimately have to interact with them for certain sequences. Humorously recalling how it was "easy with the guys" and "another story with the girls", the filmmaker praised everyone for working through any fears they had to film the movie: It was there since the beginning, when I was alone in a room writing the movie, I'm like, "Yeah, if I have a 20-meter hallway, I will show the whole way, the 20 meters, I will do a backward traveling of 20 meters, and I will make it upside down. I will put the floor on the ceiling, and I want people to lose their reference, and I want for them to be like spiders. Spiders don't have a floor or ceiling.
So, I was like, "Yeah, we have one of the best, that's so cool." And they told me, "Yeah, it will be on Shudder, it's a platform," and I was like "Yeah, let's go, it's cool." People who are big fans of horror movies can go and watch it. The only thing is that I hope that this movie is not just a horror movie, I hope that people who are not just horror fans will be interested in it. In France, we were lucky enough to be a really big hit.
And it's basically the same for me, because I did this small French horror movie, and they've seen it, and they are so precise in their comments when they see a movie, especially Sam, who asked me how many mics did I use in the bathroom scene, and things like that.
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