Three decent lesser-known horrors I've seen this year:



^ Slow-burning, creepy, and dreadful. Best of the three by far.



^ Great atmosphere, blows it at the end IMO, but still good.



^ Corny semi-comedic horror, a poor man's 'The Innkeepers', but still fun.

Infested is a new spider movie on Shudder that I had high expectations for, but it's reliance on CGI for hordes of attacking arachnids, along with its penchant for peppering what would be creepy sequences with loud French rap music distracted me. It borrows from REC, and the final sequence felt like a riff on The Cabin in the Woods. Melodramatic in parts. I really wanted to like it because of its strong performances, and there are a couple of tense moments, but overall its bombast and Hollywood ending didn't thrill me.