Infested (Vermines) released on Shudder, 26 April, 2024 Sébastien Vanicek’s Infested (Vermines) opens with the image of a snake slithering over a rock, and a vehicle passing in the background. This is somewhere in North Africa, where bearded men wearing keffiyeh drive a pickup truck through the desert along what is less a road than…
Streaming screams: Shudder and the online subscription revolution first published by Sight & Sound, November 2020 Horror is a niche genre and its audience tends to like it that way. While horror films have always had their place in mainstream movie theatres, and more and more frequently in ‘respectable’ generalist film festivals too, their natural…