Spiders
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Movie Reviews of Spiders
Movie Review: Spiders
Summary: 4 Stars
This movie has great special effects. The picture quality was very clear and the sound was great. The movie kind of brings back the 1950's horror flicks for me. Giant bugs and people running in the streets were the norm during the Atomic Age. I'm sure that the plot was standard, with government bad guys, who you love to hate, and a secret base etc., but I enjoyed it. If you like old style monster movies, I recommend seeing this sleeper.Movie Review: An amusing cheap sci-fi flick
Summary: 4 Stars
I'm not saying you should BUY this, but it's good for a few laughs if you Netflix or Tivo it. The story draws you in just enough to stick around for the laughs. no real babes in this one if that's what you're after.Movie Review: It Ain't Any Better
Summary: 3 Stars
Having recently been impressed by the lizards in Komodo, I was hoping the rubber monsters of B-movies would finally be replaced as the price for CGI effects becomes more reasonable. I was amusedly mistaken. This movie contained the usual sci-fi B-movie clichés: alien DNA, Area 21 (I guess Area 51 attracts so many visitors they don't even bother conducting experiments there anymore), government bioweapons, monsters that have nothing better to do than hunt every human down and kill them within an hour and a half...At some point we find out alien DNA (from a couple of aliens at the beginning coincidently) was injected into a spider in the space shuttle. Obviously this had to be done at zero G's, it IS alien DNA...Duh. These giant spiders were supposed to be used as bioweapons. Of course, I was glad to see this is where my tax dollars are going. If only we had giant spiders to drop during the war against Saddam...well I guess after they kill all the bad guys they would keep killing people until spiders ruled the world. According to the movie, US soldiers can't kill them and they're bulletproof. Does this never enter anyone's mind when designing a bioweapon?
The spider gets bigger every time it reproduces and eventually runs amuck in some college town. The spider actually gets better as it increases in size. I think every city should have some sort of giant monster emergency procedure like for tornados. Then in case of a REAL giant monster emergency you won't run around and scream like an idiot until it kills you. Monsters probably get so sick of hearing people screaming it just kills them to shut them up.
In conclusion I think this movie is neither bad nor good. Normal movie viewers will find it appalling. Horror fans will get a kick out of the many gratuitous squirting fluids. Supplements are very minimal. Obviously a straight-to-video release isn't going to have outstanding audio or video, but it doesn't detract from the movie.
Movie Review: LAME SCRIPT BUT OK EFFECTS
Summary: 3 Stars
SPIDERS (Trimark) and ARACHNID (Lions Gate) are a perfect double creature feature. As you might guess big spiders dominate these two low budget flicks. In Spiders, a college newspaper reporter is assigned to cover the space shuttle landing. When the shuttle crash-lands, they sneak into a restricted area and stumble upon a secret (is there any other kind?) government experiment that has, as they say, gone horribly wrong. Spiders have been injected with alien DNA and now, as is always the case in such matters, there's hell to pay. Arachnid has a group of scientists on a secret mission crash-landing on a South Pacific island where alien spiders run rampant. Both films have some pretty good jolts, but the lame, predictable stories weaken some of the better special effects.Movie Review: Better than expected
Summary: 3 Stars
A straight-to-video release, but not badly done. The spider actually looks better as it gets bigger, from two to thirty feet long. The two foot spider is extremely plastic looking, as it is tossed around the set on wires, but the six, and finally thirty foot spider, are done well, with the latter tearing across streets and parking lots, eating cars along the way! The synopsis on the back of the DVD case was unpromising, as the story is ridiculous, with secret govt. bases and crashing space shuttles, but it played out better than it read. This is a fun, well made B-movie, worth checking out!