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Films like Infestation.

Infestation (2009) reads as Neutral, breathless, measured action / comedy, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured. Every film below is ranked by distance across the same twelve hand-scored axes — with what it keeps, and where it walks away. Not a genre dump.

Big Ass Spider! (2013) poster
1. Big Ass Spider!2013

Keeps the documentary-plain realism; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Swamp Shark (2011) poster
2. Swamp Shark2011

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Alien Apocalypse (2005) poster
3. Alien Apocalypse2005

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Mammoth (2006) poster
4. Mammoth2006

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Crawlers (2020) poster
5. Crawlers2020

Keeps the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Lavalantula (2015) poster
6. Lavalantula2015

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Seven Deadly Sins: Prisoners of the Sky (2018) poster
7. The Seven Deadly Sins: Prisoners of the Sky2018

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Knights of Badassdom (2014) poster
8. Knights of Badassdom2014

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Tremors: Shrieker Island (2020) poster
9. Tremors: Shrieker Island2020

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism; trades toward a intimate, personal stakes.

Tremors: A Cold Day in Hell (2018) poster
10. Tremors: A Cold Day in Hell2018

Keeps the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer (2007) poster
11. Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer2007

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Dance of the Dead (2008) poster
12. Dance of the Dead2008

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

These are Infestation’s neighbours — where are yours?

Rate five posters and the same twelve axes read you — then tonight’s pick comes from your own centre of taste.

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