Infestation Trailer Marquette

Comedy or Not, This Is Still Terrifying

Damn Bugs / Daniel Carlson

Trailers | February 19, 2009 | Comments (38)

Director Kyle Rankin is probably best known — or as known as he can be — for helming The Battle of Shaker Heights. But his latest film, which he also wrote, is as far from that as you can get. It’s a camp horror-comedy about giant bugs attacking townspeople, and though it stars Christopher Marquette, who seems like an amiable guy, I still have no intention of seeing it. Even intentionally artificial-looking bugs in movies aren’t to be trusted, and if they’re big enough to grab you and fly away, I want no part in it. None. Well, maybe if I’m drunk. But probably not:

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So we've moved to a point where we can have Fallujah jokes. The healing has begun?

Posted by: hugeinjapan at February 19, 2009 9:48 AM

That actually made me laugh. It's no Killer Sheep though.

Also, I have to assume all the bug spooge is intentional.

Posted by: admin at February 19, 2009 9:50 AM

HAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAA!!!

SOLD! Sign me up for advance tickets and screenings and the whole shebang! Monster movies are the bee's knees.

Posted by: malikvlc at February 19, 2009 9:50 AM

Ray Wise as a kooky old man with a gun? I am there. Even with the half-bug zombies.

Posted by: Vermillion at February 19, 2009 9:52 AM

I must kindly disagree, Dan. I will be there, bugzapper in one hand and a beer in the other.

And awwww, I just had a flashback to Honey I Shrunk the Kids. No, not ANTY!!

Posted by: Julie at February 19, 2009 9:55 AM

I saw this trailer yesterday when I saw the last Best Picture nominee I had to see to see them all. It was hilarious, another My Bloody Valentine 3D in the same year. I can't wait to see it, and as much as it would ashame you to admit it to yourself Dustin, so do you.

The scary part is, you'll probably enjoy it.

Posted by: George at February 19, 2009 10:07 AM

So... let me get this straight. Not only are there douche-chill inducing giant bugs, but there are GIANT BUG-ZOMBIE-PEOPLE?!?!?!?!?!?

WHY IS THIS NOT THE HEADLINE OF THIS ITEM!!?!?

Posted by: Anna von Beaverplatz at February 19, 2009 10:09 AM

Oh hell yes! Giant jizz-filled insects fucking up a town? Yes please!

Posted by: Snath at February 19, 2009 10:14 AM

No No No No No No No

Posted by: Jay at February 19, 2009 10:23 AM

If it's as least as good as Eight Legged Freaks, that'll do just fine.

Posted by: hugeinjapan at February 19, 2009 10:23 AM

nope, no way, no how.

As a former Flordian I grew up with bugs about that size (and the zombies were the g.d. "snow birds". oh yes people, the dead DO walk, and drive- poorly).

Posted by: Heather B! at February 19, 2009 10:46 AM

FUCK! see, I'm so terrified by my childhood bug memories i spelled "Floridian" wrong.

Posted by: Heather B! at February 19, 2009 10:48 AM

Je me souviens, Heather! Je me souviens!

Posted by: Jay at February 19, 2009 10:52 AM

I got 49 seconds in when my post-traumatic heebies got the best of me.

True story:

One time when I was about 10, my mom and my two-year-old sister were asleep in their rooms as I watched Sister Act on VHS on the wood paneled TV in the living room. I heard a faint scratching sound to my left. I glanced over to the wall.

It was a huge cockroach. Bloody fucking huge. I had never seen one before; it was as big as the palm of my hand. I could hear it walking.

I backed out of the living room, ran into my mom and woke her up. I don't know what she made of my frantic, incoherent whispering but she followed me into the living room, where I pointed with a shaky hand to the bug on the wall.

Only now there were bugs all over the walls. My mom's eyes widened, I heard her swallow her gag reflex, and then one of the bugs flew of the fucking wall and landed on the coffee table.

We screamed and ran into the room I shared with my sister, and slammed the door shut behind us. My mom grabbed my sleeping sister from her toddler bed and instructed me to get some shoes on.

I found my white patent church shoes in the bottom of my closet and pulled them on. she threw a blanket over my little sister, another over me, and opened the door.

Her purse and keys were on the little table just inside the front door. She told me to be calm and keep my head down and run for the door. A moment later, she yelled, "Go!"

We ran for it. We spent the week in a hotel while our house was fumigated. Twice. As it turns out, a water pipe in the vacant house next door had burst some weeks before, and every mother humping bug in the universe had come there. Except there was no food for them. And so they had infiltrated us.

I didn't truly sleep soundly again until we moved when I was in the sixth grade.

As godtopus is my witness, I have honestly considered going to a hypnotherapist to overcome my aversion to cockroaches, because it is honestly that bad. I start sweating and shaking when I see them, and hyperventilating. Sometimes I cry.

It's horrible.

I will not ever watch this movie.

Posted by: Clee Shay at February 19, 2009 10:57 AM

I am SO in on this one.

And admin, I think you mean Black Sheep.

Posted by: Manny at February 19, 2009 11:04 AM

Thank you for the correction Manny, but the sheep are still KILLER!

B-A-A-A-A-A-A-A!

Posted by: admin at February 19, 2009 11:09 AM

Oh god, Clee Shay, that does sound traumatic.

I have a bug aversion, so I will not be seeing this film, either.

Posted by: rlr260 at February 19, 2009 11:20 AM

Hell, I like watching re-runs of Arac Attack (and I really don't like spiders). But this here movie freaks me out.

Posted by: FabMax at February 19, 2009 11:21 AM

Now do you people see why we need the newspaper and magazine industries to survive? They go under and then we're left with nothing to swat these damn bugs when they invade. I'd like to see someone try to defend themselves from a spider with a Kindle.

Also, I'm personally more afraid of sharks than bugs.

Posted by: branded at February 19, 2009 11:23 AM

I'd like to see someone try to defend themselves from a spider with a Kindle.

That just made my morning.

Posted by: twig at February 19, 2009 11:33 AM

Jebus Clee Shay, that is really awful. I can see how that would be terrifying.

I've only had one truly bad bug experience. I was in marching band in high school (of course I was), and during the home football games we were the halftime show and pep band. We sat on bleachers behind an end zone for the rest of the game. Unknown to us, there was a sewer/runoff grate about five yards behind our bleachers.

At the end of one game, I stand up and turn around to stretch, with my eyes closed, and I feel a thump and a pinch on my lips. I immediately put my hand there, and pulled off a HUGE fucking bug. It was the biggest damn beetle I had ever seen, probably over two inches long. I don't know if it was a roach, since I don't think they can fly very far or well, but it was some kind of monster mutant thing that had almost flown into mouth.

My friends and I went to the grate and found a damn swarm of the things. We let the teachers know and the next game they weren't there.

Ugh! I just got the willies thinking about it again.

Posted by: Snath at February 19, 2009 11:43 AM

HO-LEE-SHIT! I will totally be seeing this. As a fan of over-the-top, not-too-serious camp horror and sci-fi and a huge fan of the terrible shit reserved for MST3K, this will sit with me like a fine bottle of Blue Label. And i am totally finding out where you live Clee Shay. Like right now....

Expect good ole' PissBoy to be in your neighborhood soon. The last thing you will remember before waking up next to be in a theater is a maniacal giggle, the sound of duct tape being unspooled, and thoughts of "Gee...the inside of this hanky sure smells fu...."

The only thing that could make a movie about giant creepy crawlies better, would be someone who would actually squirm in abject terror next to me while I smile and clap like a retarded kid having keys jingled in front of his face.

...i know i know...it sounds cruel. but I get off on making people scared. My fucking dream job is to open my own haunted house for fuck's sake.

Boo...can you come along for the ride? I'll have a chubby the size of a cricket bat.

Posted by: PissBoy at February 19, 2009 11:43 AM

Snath, I'm so glad you feel me. It's hard trying to convince to people that, while I swear I'm not a total puss, I SERIOUSLY can not STAND bugs and it's NOT FUCKING FUNNY WHEN YOU LEAVE RUBBER ROACHES IN MY HOUSE!

PissBoy, thanks for the warning. I have activated all my security measures (including the new P*Hilt brand Scalding Airborne Herpes Smoke Bombs I stole from a bioweapons lab in rural New Mexico) and am currently typing this from inside my panic room.

I also have a cyanide tablet in my shirt pocket, in the event I am captured.

Bring it, fucker.

Posted by: Clee Shay at February 19, 2009 1:38 PM

I fucking hate bugs. I had to be escorted out of the bug room at the Cincinnati zoo with my eyes closed when I was a teenager 'cause I freaked out. The damn things absolutely horrify me. But I will see this because I am constitutionally unable to resist movies with things that disgust me.

Posted by: s. pisaster at February 19, 2009 1:42 PM

Is that like how I'll compulsively eat pepperoncinis in salads or Papa John's pizzas or eat the lemons out of water glasses?

It's not pleasant, but something in me needs to feel the burn.

But I'm still not watching no bug movie. FEAR AND LOATHING, people. FEAR AND LOATHING.

Posted by: Jay at February 19, 2009 1:52 PM

...well thank christ I already have herpes.

:PissBoy Googles 'How to break into a panic room...:

Posted by: PissBoy at February 19, 2009 1:56 PM

Jay vous rappelez-vous mon dire votre grand-mère d'obtenir outre de la fichue route ?

Posted by: Heather B! at February 19, 2009 2:17 PM

Oh, I just meant that I remember both the giant bugs and the Quebec license plates all over Broward county. Don't remember what "rappeler" means though.

Posted by: Jay at February 19, 2009 3:46 PM

When I was still in the service, I attended the US Army Jungle School in Panama. During my stay there I was frequently assaulted by the damnedest collection of gigantic flying insects aiming for my mouth, eyes, and ears, especially during night patrolling exercises. That being said I am so there for the first showing of this one...IMAX if possible.

Also if you want insectoid nightmares, just look up the weta on Google...

Posted by: Adam C at February 19, 2009 4:04 PM

Why did it have to be bugs...

Posted by: DaveKan at February 19, 2009 4:06 PM

I lived with my sister for a summer in a rented house -- one morning we woke up to a maggot invasion (we found out later that something had died under the house). They came up THROUGH THE FLOOR -- yes, even the carpet.

I tend to think of myself as a fairly chill chick when it comes to insects, but I did NOT handle that well.

I still pull out that story as my gross-bug trump card.

Posted by: Lizzie (greeneyed fem) at February 19, 2009 4:19 PM

Oh, and I'm totally seeing this movie. Monster-bug-zombies! YES!!

Posted by: Lizzie (greeneyed fem) at February 19, 2009 4:23 PM

I think they stole those bugs from the Doctor Who set...

... and omg, Clee, I got the heebie jeebies just reading your story!

Posted by: Stella at February 19, 2009 4:28 PM

Are you kidding me? That looks fucking awesome. Sign me up!!! I am there!

Posted by: wandereraz at February 19, 2009 4:40 PM

I think looking into a guys eyes turns them on most.No age gap is too wide if you both feel so right. the guy I dated from __Agelessmate.c om__ and I just work out fine and get alone splendidly.

Posted by: natey at February 19, 2009 6:11 PM

Thanks spambot, I know giant bug-zombie hybrids always put me in the mood for a May-December romance.

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Posted by: Lawre nce at February 19, 2009 10:58 PM

Now do you people see why we need the newspaper and magazine industries to survive?
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(Name of newspaper I work for): Defending the homefront from insect invasion since 1863.

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