#arachnophobia

[emeraldotter]

hug

[fly-the-pattern]

[cipheramnesia]

I don't know what about France seems to crank up the dial so hard on horror. Australia is where horror goes in absolutely bizarre directions, but France seems to amp up the stakes, the realism, the emotional trauma of it all. So it's not a huge surprise for something like Infested (Vermines, 2023) to be as good as you're going to get from the killer spider genre. It's worth the price of entry for the spiders alone, but the real showcase is the characters and subtext throughout. This is a movie that is interested in the lives of disenfranchised groups - poor, racial minorities, immigrants, etc - both the communities they live in and how they're treated in society. Infested is firing spectacularly on all cylinders, working as a conventionally exciting and thrilling monster movie, a deeply distressing experience of trauma and terror as I've started expecting from anything French in horror, and a coherent idea of how disposable people at the bottom of the socioeconomic rung are considered. Over the course of the movie what emerges is the idea that while it is a story about scary deadly spiders, the title "Infested" is not about the arachnids.

[enby-ralsei]

[demonadelem]

Rare pity, mercy and compassion of the giants called humanity

[ratcandy]

today i had a discussion with someone on the things we call scorpions that are not scorpions . because entomologists love to call things by names they are not actually.

ended up with this little . presentation. guide. thing. there are probably many, many more, but this is what we came up with on the Spot

[clairebearsparkles]

I felt like the fears in this style would be cute as hell, and I was right

[defilerwyrm]

Are you afraid of spiders?

Please note: I’m not asking if you LIKE spiders, I’m asking if you’re AFRAID of them.

For bonus points, tag your answer and which continent you live on!

[transgabalus]

[piratesparrot]

Greatest gesture of love:

❌bringing you breakfast in bed

❌saving your life in a form of a mermaid hallucination

✅tossing the spiders overboard because your partner is afraid of them

[eyeofthenewt1]

-to be whole again-

[dizzybizz]

yet another meme redraw, who could've seen it coming 🙄

[fuckyeahgoodomens]

Spiders in S2 only in the Opening Title

[one-time-i-dreamt]

I was working to invent miniature trampolines for jumping spiders, because jumping spiders like jumping, so I wanted to help them jump higher.

[happyfoxx-art]

I wanna share my new SON!!!! Meet Mochi! He's just a lil fella 🥹🥹🥹